Talking with Your Employers By Anne Merchant Geissler, The Child Care Textbook Before talking with your employers, set an agenda. Decide on the topic for discussion and agree on how much time will be allotted with the understanding that there may be future meetings. Keep focused on the current issues and keep track of time. […]
Dry Erase Surfaces
September 11, 2013 Leave a Comment
dry erase board Wednesdays with Whitney Dry Erase boards are great for practicing letters, learning math, and playing games like tic tac toe over and over again. Plus, they’re mess free! Unfortunately, small dry erase boards get lost easily and large ones can be expensive. Try these alternatives for some everyday around the house fun! […]
Don’t Ignore 9/11 with Children
September 10, 2013 1 Comment
Nanny Confessions: It’s Hard to Discuss 9/11 with Children I confess I hate talking about 9/11. And I confess it’s even harder speaking to kids about 9/11. But, I have been seeing public service announcements on television about the importance of speaking with kids about what happened on 9/11, rather than ignoring the topic. Everyone […]
Nannies Must Support the Parent and Child Bond
September 9, 2013 Leave a Comment
Don’t Speak Badly About the Parents in Front of Their Kids There are few things as horrible for a nanny to do than speak despairingly about their employers in front of their employers’ kids. Yet, so many nannies gossip about their employers right in front of the children. No child wants (or should) hear negative […]
Match It Puzzle Games
September 8, 2013 Leave a Comment
Product Review Sunday All professional nannies help the kids in their care to learn. The best way to learn is by playing. The preschoolers I care for love The Learning Journey Match It Puzzle Games. These games feature a wide range of award-winning educational titles including: Alphabet Match, Addition, All About Me, Animal Words, Colors and Shapes, Counting, Opposites, Rhyme,First Words, Subtraction, Mathematics, Heads […]
Should Kids be Allowed to Read “The Hunger Games?”
September 7, 2013 1 Comment
Is “The Hunger Games” too Violent? Parents, teachers, and child care providers always complain about the desensitization of violence in the media. Yet, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a hugely successful book series that has more than 20 teens slaughtered by other teens in a totalitarian government reality television game in gory detail. […]
Meatloaf Patties, Smashed Potatoes, and Pan Gravy
September 6, 2013 Leave a Comment
Cooking for Kids: Rachael Ray I cook dinner for my employers four days per week. By far their favorite meal is the meatloaf recipe pictured to the left and described below by Rachael Ray in her cookbook Kid Food: Rachael Ray’s Top 30: 30-Minute Meals. The gravy is the key to making this the best meatloaf the family […]
Nanny and Child Homework Contract
September 5, 2013 Leave a Comment
Essential Nanny Paperwork The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) shows that the defining factor in having academically successful children of parents that work outside the home is the household help that they hire. The NAS studies show that families that hire great childcare providers are in a stronger position to have children that are successful […]
Get Ready for School Checklist
September 4, 2013 1 Comment
Wednesdays With Whitney: Helping Kids Do for Themselves Children need to learn to take care of themselves. Talk to the child about personal cleanliness and why it is important. Together make a list of what needs to be done to clean themselves and get ready for school in the morning. Each morning they should […]
I Hate When Kids Whine “I’m Bored”
September 3, 2013 1 Comment
Nanny Confessions: Sometimes Kids Have to Be Bored to Stimulate Themselves I am reading A Spoonful of Sugar: A Nanny’s Story by Brenda Ashford and she explains that since she was born in the 1920s her days weren’t filled with television, computer games, and constant activities, which taught her to use her imagination to play. […]
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