We've talked before about how to help kids who have anxiety, but on this episode we cover how to help when you, the nanny, have anxiety! Morgan Rohloff joins us to discuss ways nannies with anxiety can navigate our days, which can be fully of stress and anxiety provoking situations. This past year hasn't been an easy one and many nannies have found that they are feeling more overwhelmed than ever! I truly hope this episode helps you as much as it did for me!
Encouraging kiddos to be adventurous eaters starts in infancy. Angelina Pizzi joins us this week to talk about all things adventurous eating! So many healthy habits (even not food related ones) can also be taught during mealtimes. Some of our best caregiving comes from sitting down and sharing a meal!
This week's guest, David Rue, is the creator and host of an amazing bedtime stories podcast called Biddy Stories! We talk about the importance of creating a bedtime ritual, based in connection and love. Biddy Stories is the internet's only sitcom style podcast for kids, pure and simple. There's nothing else like it. The humor is tailored for both the kids and the grownups... Think of us as a joint spinoff of Mr. Rogers and The Office with a hint of Bugs Bunny thrown in for good measure. David is a 10 year veteran podcaster with his family focused "Biddy Stories" podcast. He hails from Minnesota and is an elementary school music teacher, a choir director, a husband and a father to 3 outstanding children. David’s podcast mission is to help families understand that…. “If you go to sleep laughing, you’ll wake up smiling.”
A Little Spark is more than just a book, it's a multimedia experience with a lot of heart! This chapter book comes with QR codes to listen to music throughout the story and a code to download the audiobook right in the book! Reading time is such a special time for connection and A Little Spark really has something for the whole family to enjoy! It also has really wonderful lessons throughout the book. Remember, always Be That Spark!
So many nannies are feeling burnt out and overwhelmed right now. Many are considering leaving the nanny world forever. Nanny Kim joins us this week to talk about nanny burnout and how you can turn your passions as a nanny into a lucrative business! There are so many goodies in this almost two hour episode because Nanny Kim is a fountain of resources to make your nanny life better!
If you've ever seen a child light up when their favorite song comes on, you know how important music is to children (and all of us, really). This week Amelia Bell from Bubbles Academy joins us to talk through music and how to use it with your little ones! Music can be used to teach so much from pattern recognition to social emotional skills to cultures from around the world!
Tax season is upon us again and I was delighted to have Rainey Knight from Oh So Simply on the podcast to talk us through this tricky topic! As Oh So Simply's name implies, Rainey takes complicated concepts and makes them very simple, like nanny taxes! This interview was a lot of fun and very informative! We answer that age old question of how to handle it when a nanny family pays you with a 1099 and then asks for your Social Security Number come tax season and so much more!
Get ready to hear me geek out with my teacher, Jill Stansbury! Jill joins us to talk about Positive Discipline which is one of my all time favorite subjects! I know that I'll be returning to the episode again and again to refresh when I need a boost to my nanny day! We cover the origins of Positive Discipline, encouragement vs praise, different parenting styles, and so much more! Thanks so much for listening!
When this week's guest, Lesley Koplow, couldn't find a book to address the current struggles of little ones during COVID-19, she decided to write one herself! "Lilah in the Land of The Littles is a story for children in the time of Covid. Lilah is struggling with all of the changes in her life brought about by the Coronavirus." This book is a wonderful resource to help you start talking to your little ones about their feelings around the abrupt changes over the past year due to Covid. It offers imaginative play as the antidote to the stress of being in isolation for a year now! I highly recommend this book and the conversations that come along with reading it!
As we approach a year into quarantine, it seems fitting to do an episode about grief. Many of us have been forced to deal with grief over the past year in a much more up close way than maybe at any other time in our lives. Hundreds of thousands of people have died during the past year and, as a community, we have taken little to no time to sit with that loss. Whether someone you know has died or you're grieving other sorts of losses, Shannon MacFarlane helps guide us through some ways to support those around us and ourselves when grief is present, no matter the reason. I hope this episode is as helpful to you as it was to me!
Opportunities for science experiments are all around us! Dr. Ryan joins us this week to talk through some fun and easy experiments we can do with our kiddos using things found in the kitchen! I learned so much and have changed my thinking about how to present science concepts to kids. This episode was so fun and in the words of Dr. Ryan, "Kids of all ages can do science and math activities with things that you have in the home! Even cooking and snack time can be used to learn STEM concepts!"
Nannying can be isolating, especially in a pandemic. Do you find that you want to be more connected to other nannies on social media but the never ending scrolling is overwhelming? Nanny Announcements has your solution! All the events with the times they are happening all in one beautiful place! The calendar is such a great way to stay connected to all the wonderful resources in the nanny community! Check it out and thanks for listening!
This week I was delighted to be joined by two fabulous guests to discuss the power of story! Mister John is an author, librarian, and genealogist. Nanny Miss Monique curates children's books with diversity and wonderful stories. We sat down to talk about what a powerful tool storytelling can be when working with kids and offer some library tips as well! We recorded during a snowstorm and so the sound is a little off but the episode was too great not to post! Check it out and thanks for listening!
The pandemic has made every care task in our day just that much more challenging. I do not know about you, listener, but I have had times of really struggling to complete basic tasks over the past year. To help us reexamine what it means to "keep house" I've invited on KC Davis from Struggle Care to talk about how detaching moral judgements from care tasks can help in so many ways! We also talk about closing duties and other strategies to help your home serve you instead of you serving your home!
Fostering Organic Learning is a crucial part of a nanny's work! This week, Rob Fox - The Cambridge Manny, joins us to talk about how to foster organic learning in your nanny day! We talk about leaving out provocations for the child without directing exactly what the child should do. I really enjoyed this episode and I hope you will too!
Happy New Year! Welcome back! This week we're going to be chatting with Dr. Colleen Russo Johnson about how to help parents manage stress as a nanny. We speak specifically about Covid, but also about how to help as we move back into a less distanced life. As nannies, we work as part of the family's team and Dr. Colleen has so many good ideas for how to do that!
The holidays can be a really tricky time as a nanny! Families have traditions and expectations and visitors that all bring a little extra joy and a little extra stress. This week I sit down with Ruby Cashell to discuss how nannies can navigate the holidays! Happy holidays to all the nannies out there! You've really earned all the treats this year!
Happy Hanukkah, everyone! In this episode, we talk about Hanukkah and nannying for a family who celebrates a different holiday than you do! Andy Blaustein joins us to talk about this holiday and how to bring it into your nanny day!
