Nanny Adventures

My brother forwarded me this blog link to the blog AllFinancialMatters.   It has a great way that parents and nannies can teach kids about needs vs wants.   I am going to copy it here and provide the link so that you can see the other comments and so forth.  It is a great simple idea.  [...]

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Yesterday I didn’t get a chance to post any wisdom so I thought I would combine it with today’s thinking post. 
Recently on some of my nanny groups/message boards , a few nannies have made comments about not wanting to leave their jobs because they feel bad for the kids for xyz reasons, and then others [...]

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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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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
I am attaching the link to the website that has [...]

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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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