An article was just posted on Article Storehouse entitled, “Why You’re better off Using a Nanny Placement Service” By Mark Etinger of http://www.ajaxunion.com/ The author makes good points about nanny agencies being experienced in background checks and knowing what questions to ask in an interview. But I disagree with two points he makes, at least […]
Did Your Nanny Agency Train You to Be a Nanny? Does Your Nanny Agency Pay You Your Salary?
November 13, 2010 5 Comments
Books to Help Teach Kids to Tell Time
November 13, 2010 1 Comment
Wipe Clean Telling Time by Roger Priddy Review by D. Lowery: In general, I don’t get excited by workbooks. They’re static, I’ve yet to see one that is way fun, and what do they really teach? However, this book allows your little learner to figure out an answer, redo a page, or create his or […]
Teaching Kids to Tell Time for Nannies and Au Pairs, Step 5
November 12, 2010 Leave a Comment
Discussing the Second Hand The second hand is easy for kids to learn, since it’s similar to the minute hand. To reinforce that one-minute equals 60-seconds, stand next to a working clock with its minute hand pointing to an hour or half-hour, and with its second hand pointing to the 12. Have them count to […]
Do You Think Nannies Should Unionize?
November 11, 2010 13 Comments
Tough road to domestic workers’ union, report says The Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights prompted the report, which shows that including domestic workers under the State Employment Relations Act “is a critical first step in the organizing process.” By Daniel Massey The Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights that Gov. David Paterson signed earlier this year […]
Teaching Kids to Tell Time, Step 4
November 11, 2010 Leave a Comment
Explaining the Minute Hand in Single Minutes When the kids are ready to move beyond the tidy fractions of an hour, you can start adding on a few odd minutes here or there. Have them start by adding single minutes to multiples of five-minutes. First demonstrate that there are five-minutes between each number on the […]
Teaching Kids to Tell Time, Step 3
November 10, 2010 3 Comments
Explaining Minute Hand IncrementsOnce kids are confident reading whole hours, they can learn to read all the minutes in between. Show them how to read half hours and increments of 5, 10, and 15 minutes before you teach them to read individual minutes. This will discourage them from trying to count out every single minute […]
Teaching Kids to Tell Time for Nannies and Au Pairs
November 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
Learning About the Hour Hand Since an hour is the largest unit of time a clock measures (aside from an entire day), the hour hand is the best one for kids to learn first. Explain to children that the hour hand keeps track of things that take a long time, then give a few examples […]
Teaching Kids to Tell Time
November 8, 2010 2 Comments
How Nannies and Au Pairs Can Help Kids Learn to Tell Time There’s a time for everything. There’s a time to go to school, time to do homework, dinner time, bedtime, and the list goes on. If you want to keep kids on schedule, teach them how to keep time, show them how to read […]
Telly The Teaching Time Clock
November 7, 2010 3 Comments
Product Review Sunday for Nannies and Au Pairs Last night Americans turned their clocks back an hour to end Daylight Savings Time. Daylight Savings Time is to make better use of the daylight in the evenings. With the extra hour why not teach kids how to tell time with The Learning Journey Telly The Teaching […]
Saving the Daylight Why We Put the Clocks Forward
November 6, 2010 Leave a Comment
Weekly Trip to the Library Before going to bed tonight we turn our clocks back an hour. Saving the Daylight by David Prerau tells the remarkable story of daylight saving time (summer time) — the intriguing and entertaining tale of our attempt to regulate the sunlight hours. It chronicles how the revolutionary idea of putting […]
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