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Nanny Contract for COVID-19

Lora Brawley, the powerhouse behind the A-Z Nanny Contract, has released a special COVID-19 addendum/stand alone contract portion for this trying time. Just because you are an essential employee, doesn’t mean you aren’t able to have the protection of a contract. It’s done! I’ve completed the A to Z Nanny Contract COVID-19 Addendum. You don’t […]

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FREE Parenting with Love and Logic

Limited time! Thanks to SARS-2/COVID-19, children are more stressed than ever, so the Love and Logic Institute is giving away their online course entitled “Parenting with Love and Logic”. One simply has to click over to Love and Logic: Parenting, Online and “buy” this free product. Then create an account and you’ll have access to […]

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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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Standing Up and Standing Out in Difficult Times

From Tonya Sakowicz of Newborn Care Solutions, the same woman and company that has been bringing us weekly free professional developments, comes a paid webinar on standing up for ourselves in these difficult times. We’ll let her take it from here: Are you wondering how to get through our current situation with your career intact? […]

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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 […]

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It Needs to be Remarked On

For dissemination to the media at such date as the COVID-19 crisis ends. Whereas Most nannies began their employment prior to COVID-19, with older sibling charges who were in schools, employers who were happy and sane and got dressed every morning and went to a workplace they enjoyed going to, and with parks and playgrounds […]

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Clearance Certificate

This is with reference of the SARS-2/COVID-19/CORONA VIRUS. This is a clearance for the following employee who is employed as a nanny by our family. The personal details are as follows: Name of Employee Name of Employer(s)Address of Employer(s) This certificate is being issued as an Entry Pass to travel to and from our household. […]

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Nannies are Essential Workers

Coming back at you hot and heavy with another post and update for what you need to know to survive this current outbreak crisis if you are a nanny in North Carolina. Remember when we had one-or-fewer posts a day? Remember breaks that we could take? Yeah :: wistful sigh :: us too. But as […]

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Public Schools Suspended until May 15th

Governor Roy Cooper gave a press conference today (Monday, March 23rd) at lunch time. He said a lot of things, but only two that related to nannies and they are: Public schools are all the way out and not coming back until May 15th, at the earliest. No one knows where nannies would fall in […]

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Filing for Unemployment Benefits

While unfortunate, a lot of us are being let go or put on unpaid furlough due to SARS-2/COVID-19. The governmental powers that be have pulled out all the stops to process unemployment claims more quickly than ever before, and they’ve waived the requirement to submit proof of job searching while receiving unemployment benefits. (source) So […]