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Ladder of Trust

August 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Recently on one of my nanny groups, there was a nanny whose charge lies and lies about basically everything. 
I have to say that I am lucky that in my 13 years of nannying I have never really had a straight out lie to your face liar.   Now kidlet #3 will lie or omit the truth. […]

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30 minutes 5 days a week to a cleaner house?

July 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I was chatting with some nannies the other night in a nanny chat room online. One of them was talking about she gets her 4 year old charge to help her clean the house during the week. He even gets 12 cents for helping
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Turn off that Playstation and computer!

April 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments

These were common phrases at my old job. I was there for 4 years.  The boys were 9 and 11 when I left last summer.   They got very addicted to “screen time”  So their mom came up with an idea of a payment of screen time.  They were “awarded” 7 hours of screen time a […]

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