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Financial Friday: Where To Find Deals On Eating Out
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 [...]
Financial Friday: Swagbucks
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 [...]
Weekend Round Up
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 [...]
Tuesday Tips: Food Journaling: FitDay.Com
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? [...]
Tuesday Tips: Earth Day Tips For a Longer Use Of The Earth
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, [...]
Financial Friday: Kids & Money
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 outlook on money [...]
Creative Nanny: Sea Glass Candy
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
Financial Friday: Wasted Time & Wasted Money Or Is It?
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 expensive to someone who [...]
Spotlight on……Individual Nanny Coaching At The INA Conference
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. [...]
Tuesday Tips: How To Get Those Electronic Screens Turned Off!
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 result, their mom came [...]
