Financial Friday: Where To Find Deals On Eating Out
By: Alice Shaffer The Financial Nanny
As a nanny I enjoy finding ways to save money for myself and my nanny family. I have used Restaurant.com for my nanny work and personal outings. I let the kids look at the restaurants too and let them make a choice [...]
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Financial Friday: Swagbucks
by Alice Shaffer
As a professional nanny, I sometimes would like some extra “cash” but don’t want a second job or babysitting gig on the weekends. I have discovered that there are so many different fun ways to earn money on the internet these days. On Financial Friday, we have featured posts on Mypoints [...]
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Weekend Round UP
Here are the links to this weeks articles in case you missed something:
Monday Moxie: The sixth article in Kellie’s series: Taking your support group to the next level
Tuesday Tips: Some of our friends favorite children’s books and great books you might not have heard about.
Wednesday Creative Nanny: Glenda reminds you of some Simple [...]
Posted in Alice Shaffer, Boston Area Nanny Support Group, Christy Ochs, Glenda Propst, Kellie Geres, Week end Round Up
Tuesday Tips: Food Journaling: FitDay.Comby Alice Shaffer
As professional nannies we often keep journals on our charges’ day for their parents. These journals include such things as food intake, their moods and activities for the day amongst other things. Have you ever kept a journal about you and your daily food intake, mood and activities?
For [...]
Posted in Alice Shaffer, fitday.com, self care, Tuesday Tips
Tuesday Tips: Earth Day Tips For A Longer Use Of The Earth by Alice Shaffer
This Thursday, April 22, 2010, marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Earth Day is to celebrate Earth and to bring awareness to our resources.
Earth Day Network has an Earth Day TV which has channels that cover Global Warming, Get [...]
Posted in Alice Shaffer, Earth Day, Earth911, Tuesday Tips
Financial Friday: Kids & Money
by Alice Shaffer
I have been wanting to do a post on teaching kids about money. Some of the things that I want included are how to incorporate savings, spending & charity into the lesson on money. As a professional nanny of teenagers they have a different [...]
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Making Sea Glass Candyby Alice Shaffer
As a child, when I visited my Grandparents in Pennsylvania, we would get a candy called “clear toys” They were clear candies in the shapes of animals and so forth.
To read more about the Making Sea Glass Candy please visit
Creative Nanny
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Wasted Time & Wasted Money Or Is It?
by Alice Shaffer
I was looking for a topic for this week’s Financial Friday and was talking to a fellow professional nanny about the upcoming INA Conference. We were discussing the costs involved in the INA conference. Yes they can be viewed as [...]
Posted in Alice Shaffer, Financial Friday, opportunity costs, professional nanny
Individual Nanny Coaching At The INA Conferenceby Alice Shaffer
Have you ever just wanted 15 minutes with one of the professional nannies you have met online or at a conference? Well this year, INA has slated from 2:45-3:45 pm on Saturday May 21, 2010 your chance to have your 15 minutes with a Nanny Coach. [...]
Posted in Alice Shaffer, Becky Kavanagh, Glenda Propst, INA conference, Kellie Geres, Nannies from the Heartland, Table Talk Thursday, The Financial Nanny
How To Get Those Electronic Screens Turned Off!
by Alice Shaffer
“Turn off the Playstation”, “Turn off the TV” and “Turn off the computer!”
These were common phrases at my former nanny job. The boys were 9 and 11 at the time. They got very addicted to “screen time” As a [...]
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