This week I spoke with my friend Serena Shinault. She suggested a few classes we did together, like Conscious Discipline, plus a great one for nannies who are looking to stay with a family after all the children have started school.
Book recommendations: Sandra Boynton, Eric Carle, and Ruth Heller
Class recommendations: Conscious Discipline, Respectful Care, Estate Management Solutions
Please check out The SoCal Nanny Convention!
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This week I spoke with Franny Wood. Franny was a nanny for 16 years, and recently began working with HomeWork Solutions, a very well-known nanny payroll company. She helps nannies navigate payroll and how to be paid legally, and has graciously offered to share her email address with us. If you or your employers have an questions about payroll, you can contact her at Franny@homeworksolutions.com
Book recommendations: The Lighthouse Family, Tomorrow Most Likely
Class recommendations: International Nanny Training Day
For more information about the SoCal Nanny Convention please check out our website nanny-con.com. The event will be completely bilingual, with seminars on how to become a better nanny, networking opportunities with agencies and local educational businesses, plus vendor booths for local nannies' side hustles! We will also have a certificate for everyone who attends!
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This episode, I spoke with Giselle Beuscher, a nanny from Florida. She loves reading and has some truly awesome book recommendations. She also recommends the podcast The Practically Perfect Podcast, which is one of the best nanny podcasts out there!
Book recommendations: Sandra Boynton books, Goodnight Moon, Global Babies, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Cribsheet, Montessori Baby, Your Self Confident Baby
Class recommendation: Red Cross Babysitting Course
Also, big news will be announced very soon! Find me on Instagram @tomboynanny for more information about an in-person event happening this September!
This week I spoke with Candi Vajana, who has been a nanny since 1992. She has so many great insights, especially on how cooking with children teaches them so many wonderful things. You can also find her podcast, and news about her very own class she's developing at The Experienced Nanny!
Book recommendation: Julia Donaldson
Class recommendation: Open University and keep an eye out for her own class!
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This week I spoke with Tamara L'Hote, who has 23 years of nanny experience! Like many other nannies, she suggests checking out community colleges for child development classes, but also to go to your local library. Sometimes they have cheap or even free classes. She's also a big crafter and she makes jewelry for her fellow nannies!
Class recommendations: CPR & First Aid, Transforming Challenging Behavior
Book recommendations: Dr. Seuss
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Melanie Blauser not only has tons of experience as a nanny, she's also a former engineer! She's also a fellow crocheter and has some great suggestions.
Book suggestions: Brown Bear Brown Bear, Goodnight Moon, Dr. Seuss books, Miss Twiggley's Tree
Class suggestions: check your local community colleges!
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Now that the holidays are over, I'm putting up new episodes of The Nanny Endorsements. I'm always looking for more nannies, newborn care specialists and other childcare professionals to interview, so if you're interested, please fill out the Interview Request! It's really simple, and it's audio only. You don't have to have any special equipment, just a Zoom account. Most people use a laptop, but some use their phones, you just need to have a decent internet connection! It only takes about a half hour.
I also have some big news on the way! Be sure to find me on Instagram (@tomboynanny) and contact me about the podcast, my crochet toys, or anything else!
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Danielle Taylor had so many fantastic suggestions, and also gave us our first discount code! She also suggested a positive discipline podcast: Joyful Courage
Book recommendation: Todd Parr
Class recommendation: Fairy Dust Teaching, RIE, Newborn Care Solutions, Positive Discipline, and most importantly a Sproutable class specifically for nannies (use the code THIRTYOFFSP for 30% off the course!)
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This week I spoke with Ana Buralli, a nanny working in Chicago. She's a big DIY-er and loves to create stories with her charges.
Book recommendation: Roald Dahl
Class recommendation: Ana learned a ton working at Camp Anokijig.
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I had my husband, Mike, ask me the interview questions. Thank you all so much for listening!
Book recommendation: The Mysterious Benedict Society, The Rabbit Listened and The A to Z Mysteries series
Class recommendations: Knowledgeable Nanny Flexible Lesson Plans, Respectful Care, and The Institute of Child Psychology's Neurobiology class
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This week I spoke to one of my good friends, Lindsay Brown. Not only did she have great suggestions of books and a certification we should all have, but she also brought up some great podcasts for nannies.
Book recommendations: Mo Willems books, Giraffes Can't Dance, Jamie Lee Curtis books, Cali Music books, Bob Marley books, According to Humphrey books, She Persisted
Class recommendation: CPR & First Aid
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This week I spoke with Suzanne Johnston, a nanny, post-partum doula, instructor, lactation consultant, agency owner, podcast host... she does everything! Be sure to look for her podcast Top Notch with Suzanne and her nanny agency Nannies in LA.
Book recommendations: Where the Wild Things Are, Sandra Boynton books, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Class recommendations: RIE Training, Multiple Blessings. Bini Birth, ICEA
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This week I spoke with Jeny Lynn a nanny from Sonoma County. She had so many great book recommendations of different ages, and I am seriously intrigued by the historical card game Chrononauts!
Book recommendations: Little Blue Truck series, Pout Pout Fish, Pete the Cat series, Wings of Fire series (a graphic novel great for older children!)
Class recommendation: Attachment Theory
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This week I spoke with another British nanny, Maria Culley. Not only is she an award-winning nanny, but she is also a published author! Please check out her book, There's a Nanny in MY House!
Book recommendation: books by Eric Carle
Class recommendation: Early Years Neuroscience classes
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This week I spoke to Crystal Crawford, the nanny behind Clearly Nanny and Hey Crystal Gail. She is a nanny in Atlanta and is also a motivational speaker who runs a Clubhouse group that supports fellow nannies.
Class recommendation: Childhood Trauma Identification
Book recommendation: Ebony's Purple Scarf
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This week I spoke with Chelsey Bahe from Minneapolis Minnesota. Not only does she have tons of nannying experience, but she also runs her own Outside Play Club!
Book recommendations: A Way with Wild Things, Oona, Sophie Mouse, and Zoey and Sassafras
Class/education recommendations: Pop Up Adventure Play, Balanced and Barefoot, and Last Child in the Woods
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My good friend Heidi Joline has a wealth of helpful information, which makes sense since she was INA's Nanny of the Year in 2019. She was also one of the nannies who inspired me to start this podcast!
Book recommendations: The Rabbit Listened, The Curious Garden, Lately Lily, Hey Little Ant, Dear Boy/Girl, Mr. Panda books, I Took the Moon for a Walk, The Snail and the Whale, The Storm Whale, The Princess and the Pony, Not Quite Narwhal, and Snatchabook.
Class recommendations: Flexible Lesson Planning for Nannies, Institute of Child Psychology and Child Nutrition and Cooking
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The Nanny Endorsements have officially gone international! This week Kat Lord from London, UK spoke with me and had some fantastic suggestions. She also has her own websites More To Books and More To Organising.
Author recommendations: Roald Dahl, The Perfect Shelter by Clare Helen Welsh (Kat's even written about this author here), and Pizazz by Sophy Henn (Kat also wrote about this author here).
Class recommendation: Write Dance
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This week I spoke with Alexandria Noll Mayer from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Not only is she a nanny, but she's also a children's book author! You can find information on her upcoming book here.
Book recommendations: Sandra Boynton and Sharon Creech, and also some great books on communication How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and The Whole Brain Child.
Class recommendations: Newborn Care Training and My Nanny University
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