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Winterfest + All Members Meeting 2020

It is once again time for NC PAN members to make their voices heard during our annual All Members meeting. This year, we are being generously hosted in the Zoom of one of our Agency Affiliates. You must be RSVPed as “going” to receive the joining information. If you don’t have a Facebook account, send […]

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Professional Development

PBS and Distance Education: A Webinar

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”. It is already on the NC Nanny Calendar (visible at the bottom of all of the NC PAN […]

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WinterFest Zoom Collaboration Needed (Agency Affiliates)

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 […]

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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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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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Legal Pay without a Payroll Service

While we here at the North Carolina Professional Association of Nannies always recommend an expert payroll processor, because there are fewer mistakes that way, we also know that some employers want to do it themselves and save the fee associated with hiring a payroll processor. Firstly, we recommend that you note that an employer’s budget […]

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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 […]