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Professional Development

PBS and Distance Education: A Webinar Encore

On Wednesday, the 18th of November 2020, PBS will be airing a webinar designed for those of us who are distance learning facilitators in the home called “Make the Most of Learning at Home With PBS KIDS”. We here at your North Carolina Professional Association of Nannies think that the price (free) is right and […]

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Socializing

Holiday Secret Gift Exchange

Looking to add a little nanny cheer to your upcoming winter celebrations? Nanny Autumn of Raleigh, NC, has started a North Carolina Nannies Only gift exchange (sometimes known as a secret santa exchange) for us! Click on this Elfster link, make a profile so your gift giver knows how to personalize the gift, and wait […]

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National Nanny Recognition Week & interNational Nanny Training Day

We have recently updated the post on the current standing of the interNational Nanny Training Days of North Carolina. 2020 once again claimed as victims all training days except Chapel Hill, which has gone virtual and is still on schedule for September 12th. Want a free admission? Help NannyCast with producing their annual Cards Against […]

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Community Involvement

Help Create a Job Description for the word “Nanny”

Until now, in the United States, only the IRS bothered to define the job of “nanny” and for legal purposes we have been using that definition ever since. But you notice how that sentence started: until now. What has changed now? Everything! The US Department of Labor through their O*Net (stands for “occupation network”) is […]

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Professional Development

Should I Ask for a COVID Raise? A Chat.

From Lora Brawley of Nanny Care Hub comes a Zoom chat on whether or not, and how, ask for a COVID raise. We’ll let her take it from here: In the beginning of the pandemic, lots of nannies picked up extra duties because the nation was on stay-at-home orders and often, they were the only […]

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Socializing

Make Group Calls More Comfortable

This stay-home experience has a lot more of us on a lot more video chats. But there’s always that one person with the background noise that makes the video chat difficult to follow. Don’t be that person. And even better, don’t be that person FOR FREE! And here is A REFERRAL LINK for 1 month […]

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Professional Development

Job Hunting in a Pandemic

From Lora Brawley of Nanny Care Hub comes a paid webinar on how to job hunt during a pandemic. We’ll let her take it from here: If you’re one of the many nannies that are currently looking for a job or will be in the next 12 to 18 months, this session is designed especially […]

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Public Schools Suspended for Remainder of School Year

Governor Roy Cooper gave a press conference today (Friday, April 24th) at lunch time. He said a lot of things, but only one that related to nannies and it is: Public schools are all the way out for the whole rest of the school year. For those of you with school aged charges, we know […]

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(triad) Free Hand Sanitizer

Triad nannies, especially those of you in Greensboro, go get your essential working selves some personal protective hand sanitizer … free! Hat tip to Nanny Michelle W for making us aware of this awesome offer from Fainting Goat Spirits. Make sure you click the button on Facebook to “embiggen” the image as it is longer than […]

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Socializing

Team Trivia / Pub Quiz

Thursday, 30 August 2020 @ 7 pm ET. LEARN MORE Who is in the mood for some socially-distanced team trivia with a delightful Scottish burr? We are going to get together and as a team, figure out the answers to a pub quiz being brought to us from Scotland. We’ll submit an answer sheet and […]