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Disability Insurance for Nannies
What Every Worker Needs to Know About Disability Benefits By Tom Breedlove of Breedlove & Associates Disability benefits are short-term financial benefits provided to employees that are unable to work due to non-occupational illness or injury. (Note: If the injury or illness is work-related, the benefits fall under workers’ compensation coverage). An employee would qualify [...]
Independent Play and Why it is important
This is from our NannyFusion member Nannies from the Heartland. Do you have charges or children of your own that don’t like playing alone? Do you feel that you need to “entertain” them at all times? 13 years ago, Becky Kavanagh wrote an article on this very topic for a nanny publication. She recently came [...]
Power of One Person
Word of mouth is such a powerful tool. Social Media is a powerful tool. When you add the “power of one” to both of those you gain something so strong and powerful. Each year the International Nanny Association conducts an Annual Salary & Benefits Survey. This survey is used by many potential employers, agencies and [...]
Newborn House Visits from Family and Friends
Have you as a nanny or as a parent wondered when it is ok to visit someone who has just given birth? What about when you have a newborn in your home-how do you deal with everyone wanting to come visit? Today I want to share Gibson Newborn Services article on Handling Well Wishers when [...]
Teaching Kids Humility
Do you work with kids who need to brush up on their humility skills? As nannies, we have many teachable moments with the children in our care, and helping them with being humble is one of those teachable moments available. Today we share an article from Nanny.net on helping kids take a bite of the humble pie. [...]
Potty Training at Night and Day
Many of my mommy and nanny friends are taking 2012 by the “potty training horns.” They are potty training their kids. In my 16 years as a professional nanny I have dealt with potty training twice I believe. I have always dealt with, heard and seen that “night time” potty training is the hardest to come by. Today I [...]
Year End Tax Reminders from Breedlove & Associates
By Tom Breedlove, Breedlove & Associates It’s that time of year again…tax season is officially upon us. We realize that most humans discard all tax information from their brain the minute they finish their returns. So, here are a few reminders/tips for this tax season: By early February, you should receive a Form W-2 from [...]
NannyFusion: Get to know Mary O’Connor of Nannies from the Heartland
As you have hopefully seen our “Meet Nanny” series,we wanted to you to get to know our NannyFusion members too! We have started a new series called “Meet NannyFusion Member”. Through many of our networking experiences the development team has had the privilege of working with many of ourNannyFusion members. We wanted to share more about [...]
Tips for Facebook’s Timeline
Many of you have seen the news that the Timeline for Facebook is going live for everyone shortly. There will be no choice in getting it. Yes that means more changes and more things to get use to. I have to tell you that I have had it since the fall when they announced it [...]
Getting Fit and Healthy in 2012
I ran across this site called FitFluential and on their blog they had this great post about ways to get fit and healthy in 2012. As many have got their “New Year’s Resolutions” decided and even broken some already, many are still working on what they want to do for 2012. The one thing [...]
