In the United Kingdom, they’ve been celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week for several years. We would like to do our part in bringing that celebration to this side of the Atlantic Ocean. The theme for this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week is Growth Together. For us that means educational content for nannies and charges about […]
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An Open Letter to Apple
To Whom it May Concern at Apple, Inc.: We have become aware that in the latest update of iOS, there has been an autocorrect entry to turn the word referring to a collective of domestic employees: nannies into the possessive word: Nannie’s. While we do not deny that there may be several persons in the […]
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You Deserve a Little Something
It is National Nanny Recognition Week and you, fair nanny, have worked hard this year. COVID has been no joke and added a lot of stress, school has resumed in person even though your charges aren’t vaccinated, and the prices of everything have gone up! Well, not everything. Here’s how we are going to recognize […]
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COVID Vaccination for the Nanny
As some of you who already follow our Facebook page may have seen, nannies are slated to receive the vaccine in Phase 1b, Subgroup Group 3: Childcare Workers. This is where we are planned for and this is where we need to be showing up. According to Governor Cooper, we are already in Phase 1b. […]
Greetings Agency Affiliates! We are hoping to collaborate with one of you to throw our annual WinterFest holiday bash (and All Members Meeting). If you have a paid Zoom where we can have meetings of unlimited time and are willing to donate that access to us for an evening (of your choice), please send an […]
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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Financial Options for COVID-19
Angela Johnson Sutherland of Ask the Nanny and the US Nanny Association recently interviewed Kathy Webb, president of Homework Solutions (the premier nanny payroll solution) about financial benefits and options available for nannies and newborn care specialists and doulas. They discussed the Families First Corona Virus Response Act, the Payroll Protection Act, the difference between […]
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Explaining HB6201
You are an employee. You are not an independent contractor. Therefore, your employer has at least one employee: you. That means, you and your employer qualify as falling under this law. The law goes in to effect tomorrow. Learn about the PTO you are required, legally, to receive. (and your employer can receive reimbursement for […]
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#AddChildcare
We’ve noticed a lot of lists going around thanking the amazing folks keeping the world together right now. We think they are awesome. We just have one tiiiiiiiiiiny addition to make in keeping with our call for an industry standard change. Feel free to drop this image in the comments of those posts or share […]