Benefits of Nanny Personality and Risk Assessments Wow, this blog and our Be the Best Nanny Newsletter Facebook page were alive with comments yesterday. Today, Yossi Pinkas explains more benefits of using personality assessments to help hire a nanny. Tomorrow, he will address some of the challenges of using personality tests when interviewing in-home child […]
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Nanny Personality Assessments Can Help Parents Choose a Better Nanny, Au Pair, or BabysitterBy Yossi Pinkas, TakeCare, http://www.take-care.me/ Selecting a caregiver for children is a difficult task for parents and the risk of making a wrong choice is frightening. Most articles on the topic of hiring a nanny advise parents to interview the nannies, check […]
[Continue reading...]Book Review of What the Dog Saw by Malcolm GladwellWeekly Trip to the Library What the Dog Saw is a collection of stories reported by The New Yorker journalist Malcolm Gladwell. The author specializes in taking ordinary or overlooked subjects and writing about them in entertaining and insightful ways. The nineteen chapters range from the […]
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Brook Burke Speaks to NY Daily News By Moms and the CityIn a NY Daily News interview, by “Moms and the City,” Brook Burke is interviewed about hiring a nanny. Brook Burke is quoted as saying, “I’ve been committed to consistency. I never like a lot of change for the children. But at the same […]
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How Would the New NY Nanny Law Effect You? We have been discussing why those who support the Domestic Worker’s Bill of Rights are so excited that NY Governor David Paterson is expected to sign the bill into law. This new “Nanny Law” gives domestic workers up to seven paid sick days for full-time workers, […]
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Have You Been Let-Go Without 14-Days Notice? Last week the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights was passed in NY and is awaiting NY Governor Paterson to sign it into law. The legislation requires that domestic employees receive a 14-day termination notice. If the employer fails to give adequate termination notice, the employee can receive back […]
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Would the NY Nanny Law Help You (if you worked in NY)? For the past two weeks we have been discussing how New York State Legislature passed the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, making New York the first state in the nation to provide new standards of worker protections for more than 200,000 employees in […]
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Nannies, Is Today a Paid Holiday for You? What Paid Holidays Do You Get Off? We have been posting articles about the new “New York Nanny Law.” Click here to see the article stating that Gov. Paterson will be pleased to sign the bill. Click here to see comments from the article entitled “Wake-Up Call […]
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Weekly Trip to the Library for Nannies and Au Pairs Next week American’s celebrate their Independence from Great Britain on the 4th of July. Independence Day is commonly celebrated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, picnics, concerts, political speeches and ceremonies celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States. Get the kids in your care in the mood for the […]
[Continue reading...]This post was written by CBS News Investigates intern Brian Mastroianni. Deloris Wright worked for eight years as a nanny for a family in New York City. Earlier this year she was fired when she refused to work a nearly 60-hour week with no overtime. “I was so humiliated,” said Wright. “When I spoke to […]
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