Products Nannies Love: Crane Humidifiers It’s currently 13F degrees and it feels like minus -1F degrees where I live in New Jersey. The children I care for and I have dry skin and patches of eczema and dry cracked lips due to the bitter cold and dry air. Plus, their little noses are dry (sometimes bloody) from the dry air. A dry environment makes it easier for viruses to invade the nasal lining to make children sick. Cool-mist humidifiers to help clear their little one’s stuffy nasal passages. Their mucous membranes work better in cool moist air. Viruses can’t penetrate normal Read more
What Are Your Favorite Picture Books?
How to Use Picture Books It’s the start of a new year and Be the Best Nanny Newsletter suggests nannies and au pairs make a New Year’s Resolution to read more to their charges. According to Bank Street College’s Guide to Literacy, young children can greatly benefit from reading experiences that use picture books with an easy-to-follow narrative sequence or storyline. Use quality picture books to encourage budding language arts skills in the young child. Encourage discussion about the pictures and story. Remember that pictures, like letters, are symbols. Reading Read more
Radio Listeners Sound Off On Moms Mistaken As Nannies
Does Radio Interview Show Prejudice Towards Interracial Children and Parents? National Public Radio.LEE HILL: Hey, Michel. Well, I think it’s fair to say this week’s parenting conversation made a lot of jaws drop, and it definitely inspired people to get online and share their feedback. Tuesday, we talked to a group of moms who share a unique experience. They were mistaken for the nannies of their multiracial or simply different-looking children. Here’s a clip from that conversation with featured mom, Jamila Bey. Ms. JAMILA BEY: I am African-American. That’s Read more
What’s Your Vote?
Should the Be the Best Nanny Newsletter Blog Continue to Allow Anonymous Comments? Vote:“Yes” to Allow Anonymous Comments“No” to No Longer Allow Anonymous Comments To reduce the risk of “flaming” from anonymous visitors, readers of the Be the Best Nanny Newsletter blog have asked that commenters be required to register. Registration would not require any private contact information be revealed. Registration would require the commenter to have one of the following: 1. Google account, (gmail address or easy to make with any current email address and Read more
For Nannies, Hope for Workplace Protection by The New York Times
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"I’m Jealous Of My Nanny:" A Mom’s Honest Confession
Check out this link to parenting.com with a quote from fellow nanny Michelle LaRowe. Read more
How Do You Play With Kids in the Snow?
Posted by on January 22nd, 2011
The Snowy Day By Ezra Jack Keats and Activities Review by wannabwester The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats won the prestigious Caldecott Award in 1963. The book is not only a fine story, but also featured the first African American main character to be depicted in a children’s picture book. This ground-breaking book was followed by several others written by Keats, including A Whistle for Willie, Peter’s Chair, A Letter To Amy, and Goggles. The story is of Peter, a boy who lives in an apartment in the city, and his adventures in the snow. The boy Peter is an appealing “every Read more