Product Review Sunday Typical pen and paper notebook nanny journals are becoming a thing of the past. Now nannies and parents can keep in contact in real time with a free smartphone App. The NannyNotes App is the answer for keeping parents informed about their children while away at work or traveling. With an intuitive […]
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Mother’s Day Gift I just love the smell of lemons! That’s one of the reasons this is my absolute favorite, cheapest, and easiest homemade Mother’s Day gift to make and give. Let the kids help make this wonderfully clean smelling, non-toxic, moisturizing scrub for their Mother and Grandmothers. It’s so inexpensive. This lemony scrub makes an […]
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Mother’s Day Card Mother’s Day is this weekend. The parents you work for will appreciate it if you help their children make cards for the holiday. When making cards there’s no need to spend money because you can just use the supplies your Nanny Family already has in the house. This is a great card […]
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Mother’s Day Project For years I’ve been making this card with kids. With Mother’s Days approaching next week, it is an easy card to make with the children for their mother. Of course you can make this card for Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day, birthdays, or any special occasion too. It couldn’t be cuter and easier to make. […]
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Weekly Trip to the Library It’s Spring and the kids I care for are waking to the friendly chirps of birds migrating back to their neighborhood again. I am having so much fun with the five-year-old pointing out red robins, cardinals, chickadees, blue jays, and even woodpeckers during our local travels because we are learning […]
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Cooking With Kids Let kids help make meals. They will feel a sense of pride and are less likely to be finicky if they help prepare and choose the foods they eat. Provide them with healthy protein and vegetables choices and let them build their own shish kabobs for dinner. You Will Need: 1 Pound […]
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Earth Day Project My youngest charge and I enjoy attending an environmental program for children at a local garden. Following a lesson about birds one day we made this rocking robin craft. Made out of old cardboard cereal boxes, these delightful birds rock back and forth when tapped. The robins look so cute. Be sure […]
[Continue reading...]Make Earth Day Everyday Tomorrow is Earth Day. Great power lies in the hands of nannies and au pairs that consistently teach children to reduce, reuse, and recycle. To teach children to respect the environment, we must live green and value our natural world, especially when our charges look up to us. If we truly […]
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Product Review Sunday What nanny hasn’t struggled using a public bathroom while caring for a baby? You can’t leave a little child alone while using the restroom so you have to fumble to bring the baby in an umbrella stroller into the stall with you. But there is a product to use to help keep […]
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Cooking for Kids I decided to try to sneak as much unprocessed foods as I could into the kids diets lately. These little treats were a complete success! The key to making these treats palatable to the youngsters was to use a food processor to chop the nuts and dates as fine as possible. My […]
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