Boundaries With Nanny–Balancing The Invisible Line
The irresistible series, Downton Abby, touted as an “instant classic” by the New York Times, is airing on Masterpiece Theatre on Sunday nights in January on PBS. This is a revision of the extremely popular Upstairs, Downstairs that ran in England for years in the 70’s, and is all about boundaries.The upper class [...]
THE FBI CHILD ID APP-PUTTING SAFETY IN YOUR HANDS
You’re shopping at the mall with your children when one of them suddenly disappears. A quick search of the nearby area is unsuccessful. What do you do? Now there’s a free new tool from the FBI that can help. And it’s just been updated! The iPhone mobile application, which enables users to electronically store photos [...]
How Caring Nannies Protects Your Family
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PERSONALITY TYPES AND YOUR NANNY
The difference between now and before the economic downturn is that instead of receiving 5-10 resumes for each position, today, we need to sort through dozens of resumes. How do we go about matching the people who are best suited for your family? How can personality testing help you in choosing the right nanny as [...]
Should Nannies Use Cell Phones and Text on the Job?
Nannies have been fired for texting and calling on their cell phones excessively during working hours. What makes the nanny profession so different from any other child care job is that nannies are largely unsupervised. The nature of the nanny profession can entail isolation and often work long hours, up to 10-12 hours per day. Nannies are [...]
The Recession: A Boon for Our Families!
The Recession is a boon for our families! We are able to offer the cream of the crop right now. Many nannies are eager to take on positions that they may have previously declined because the position was part time, or involved housework or was temporary. Many of our nannies have lost their jobs or [...]
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Making Holidays Meaningful for Children
How can we resist the consumerism that encroaches on our children during the holidays and even turn it around to help them learn the true meaning of Christmas? New research shows that helping others is a major key to happiness, and when we are helping or giving to someone it helps us to feel satisfied, [...]
Back To School!
Everyone is back in school and the world runs at a more predictable pace with set routines and children in uniforms. Our entire staff is also back at school this semester, at SCC, on-line, as well as MCC, sharpening our computer and communication skills. Much of our weekends are spent laboring over our laptops. We [...]
Old-Fashioned Family Fun
Old-Fashioned Family Games for Summer Remember the fun games you played in summer growing up? Try some family games this summer? There is Ante Over, where one team is stationed in the front yard, and half in the back, and you shout “Ante Over” to warn the other team to be on the lookout for [...]
My Brother, My Hero
My brother Mark, a prominent gastroenterologist at Desert Sam, and his wife Kris, were getting close to retirement, had all four of their boys well raised, when Gretchen and Tommy came into their lives. Their three and four year old niece and nephew needed rescuing. Mark and Kris thought it would just be temporary at [...]
Crazy Truck Driver: The Fragility of Life
Erika came literally within two inches of leaving this world on Monday morning on her way to the bank to sign papers on a car she was selling. How differently our lives would have been today! How little we consider the reality of life. How we take for granted the really important things—it’s always relationships. [...]