Are You Joining Your Employers for Thanksgiving Dinner? By Farrah, Nanny, Los Angeles, CA As a live-in nanny in Los Angeles, originally from Louisiana, I celebrate Thanksgiving with my employer’s family each year. The entire extended family comes for the big dinner in which my employers absolutely refuse to let me work. They don’t allow […]
The Best Shopping Bags: IKEA Shopping Bags
October 21, 2012 2 Comments
Product Review Sunday Each Sunday I review a product that nannies and au pairs love. Today I am recommending a product I fell in love with because I live in an apartment building, not because I first used it at my nanny job. But recently I realized Ikea Shopping Bags are very useful at my […]
Kids Love Easy-to-Make Ebelskivers
October 7, 2012 Leave a Comment
photo from Nordic Ware Product Review Sunday The family I work for has an ebelskiver pan and mix and I tried it out with tremendous success. So, this Product Review Sunday, I highly recommend a cast-iron ebelskiver pan, ebelskiver mix, and a fun cookbook with recipes for some delicious ebelskivers. A tradition in Danish homes, […]
How to Use Blocks: Important Developmental Toys
September 30, 2012 1 Comment
Blocks, the book Block Play, and Jingle in My Pocket CD by Sharon MacDonald Sharon MacDonald, an early childhood development expert and author of Block Playexplains that blocks are a developmental toy that are a favorite for children from infancy through grammar school. In her book, the author provides tons of activities to use with children to encourage […]
No More Sorting of Whites and Colors: SHOUT Color Catcher
September 23, 2012 1 Comment
Products Nannies Love Over the past 19-years working as a nanny I have always done the children’s laundry and many nannies wash the entire family’s laundry. The very first thing I learned about doing laundry is to sort the white clothes from dark clothes or clothes with bright colors. My grandmother told my mother, my […]
How to Clip a Baby’s Nails
September 2, 2012 1 Comment
Have You Tried Using a Nail Clipper With a Magnifier? At my first nanny job the mother taught me how to trim her baby’s fingernails and toenails while the baby was asleep. She kept the nail clipping utensils in the car so we could trim the baby’s while he was asleep in his car seat. […]
Pacifier That Closes When Dropped
August 19, 2012 1 Comment
Keep-it-Kleen Pacifier By Raz Baby Don’t you hate it when the baby’s pacifier drops on the floor and dog hair gets on it and you have to rush to the sink to wash it off? Well, no more running to wash off the pacifier every time it slips out of the baby’s mouth. There is […]
Latex Free Sports-Themed Bandages
July 1, 2012 Leave a Comment
Products Nannies Love Bumps and boo-boos are a basic part of growing up, but a child’s healing bandage can be anything but basic thanks to Sports Shield and its newest kid-themed adhesive strips they’ll be proud to wear. Created by the Jolly Group,who entered the first aid/wound care industry in 1995, Sports Shield Brand is […]
Green Toys™
June 3, 2012 2 Comments
Product Review Sunday Green Toys Inc. makes an awesome line of classic children’s toys constructed from recycled plastic and other environmentally friendly materials. This helps reduce fossil fuel use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improving the overall health and happiness of the planet. They use recycled milk containers as the main ingredient in creating the […]
Do You Care for a Child with Allergies? Try AllerMates for Safer Playdates
May 13, 2012 Leave a Comment
Allergy-Conscious Mom Takes Action with AllerMates Allergy Awareness Week May 13-19 A mother of a child with multiple food allergies was frustrated by the lack of allergy-related kid-friendly products so she took action and created AllerMates, a new line of bright, fun, whimsical wristbands, dog tags, and lunch boxes that her son would happily embrace. […]
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