Nothing tested a nanny’s patience quite like the annual Halloween costume crisis — until “Creepy Sheepy” came along. In Lucy Ruth Cummins’s hilarious “Creepy Sheepy,” the wooly protagonist is determined not to follow the herd. While every other sheep in the pasture decides to dress up as a classic, generic ghost, Sheepy wants a look […]
“Creepy Sheepy” by Lucy Ruth Cummins & Make a Costume for Your Own Sheepy
October 3, 2026 Leave a Comment
Why All Nannies Should Use “Let’s Have a Tea Party!” by Emilie Barnes
September 24, 2025 Leave a Comment
If you’re looking to add a touch of whimsy and etiquette to your nanny toolkit, “Let’s Have a Tea Party!” by Emilie Barnes is your new secret weapon. This beautifully illustrated, nostalgia-infused guide offers more than just pretty cups and finger sandwiches — it’s a charming blueprint for turning ordinary afternoons into magical memories. “Let’s […]
The Courage to Be Disliked By Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
July 20, 2019 Leave a Comment
No One Can Make You Feel Insecure Because You Are a Nanny The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness has sold millions worldwide and I wanted to see what the hype was all about. The book is written as a conversation between […]
The Explosive Child by Ross W. Greene
June 29, 2019 Leave a Comment
Kids Do Well When They Can Explosive or challenging kids are children that get far more frustrated, far more easily, far more often, in far more extreme ways, and perform less adaptably and flexibly than most children. In The Explosive Child: A New Approach For Understanding And Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children, Ross W. […]
Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh
February 25, 2017 3 Comments
Weekly Trip to the Library What can you make with one oval, two circles, and eight triangles? Just ask three clever mice. In Mouse Shapes,the mice play with shapes while hiding from a cat. In the end, the mice build big mice to scare the cat away. After reading the book let the kids trace […]
Stop Power Struggles with Kids
March 19, 2015 Leave a Comment
Using Natural Consequences When kids don’t wear their coat, they get cold. When children refuse to eat, they become hungry. When they don’t use an umbrella in the rain, they get wet. The concept of using natural consequences to teach children, rather than punishing them, is allowing things to happen naturally, without adult interference. In […]
The Price of Privilege by Madeline Levine
November 2, 2013 1 Comment
A Sense of Lovability is the Core of All Healthy Self-Development In Order to Learn How to Cope with Normal Frustrations, We First Have to Experience Them Nannies often see the parents they work for as down-to-earth, hard working, appreciative, respectful, and loving parents yet worry that they see the children in their care growing […]
The Perfect Stranger by Lucy Kaylin
August 31, 2013 Leave a Comment
Weekly Trip to the Library I have never read a book in which I had so many “Aha” moments as I did when reading The Perfect Stranger: The Truth About Mothers and Nannies by Lucy Kaylin. The author who is the Editor in Chief of O, the Oprah Magazine, was an executive editor for Marie Claire, […]
Searching for Mary Poppins
January 19, 2013 Leave a Comment
Weekly Trip to the Library By Whitney Tang, Author of Wednesdays with Whitney and The Naptime Nook Searching for Mary Poppins by Susan Davis and Gina Hyams is exactly that: a book about various mothers’ searches for Mary Poppins (aka the perfect nanny). But it goes much further than that. This book, which is made up of […]
