As the Financial Nanny is in San Francisco at the INA Conference, she has a great new story on Pigtopia & the Piggy Bank. A wonderful financial story and the beginning of the piggy bank
Financial Friday: $79.99 For $100 Check Certificates For Hyatt Hotels
by Alice Shaffer
Do You Trick Yourself Into Saving Money?
This past week I was I looking for some papers and found a bank envelope with $100 in it. This was exciting as I was going to be meeting a friend for dinner later that night. I got to thinking, what other money do I have hiding from myself. This money was great as it was a "additional" amount of money for my allowance. This means that I have another $100 to pay towards my bills this month. Anything to pay ahead is great.
Individual Nanny Coaching At The INA Conference
by Alice Shaffer
Have you ever just wanted 15 minutes with one of the professional nannies you have met online or at a conference? Well this year, INA has slated from 2:45-3:45 pm on Saturday May 21, 2010 your chance to have your 15 minutes with a Nanny Coach. This is a great opportunity to meet some of the various nannies who have various experiences and potentially some helpful advice for you. Don't forget to sign up for one to four of these Nanny Coach slots when you get to the INA Conference. We hope to meet you there!
Kellie Geres
Working with Divorced Families
Kellie Geres is a professional nanny / household manager with 21 years of experience and has spent the past 12 years working exclusively with divorced parents. She is the 1997 INA Nanny of the Year, former INA board member, current Association of D.C. Area Nannies (ADCAN) president and member of INA and NANC. She is one of the development members of Regarding Nannies. She blogs at All Things Nanny.
Becky Kavanagh
Professional Development / Marketing Yourself as a Professional
Becky Kavanagh is the 2006 INA Nanny of the Year and has over 20 years of professional nanny experience. She is past president of INA and in 1998 was awarded the prestigious Parents Magazine Child Care Award. Ms. Kavanagh is active in the nanny community and also serves on staff as a placement coordinator with Nannies from the Heartland, a Minnesota-based nanny placement agency. You can find her blog posts at Nannies from the Heartland.
Susan Lehman
Discipline Issues
Susan Lehman is a certified positive discipline associate and certified professional nanny. She has over 20 years of professional nanny experience and has dedicated her life to developing happy, secure and independent children. Ms. Lehman uses the tools and skills she learned at the Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael, California, to coach parents on every aspect of their child’s development and care. Her teaching style brings warmth, humor, comfort and enthusiasm to all her lectures and experiential workshops for parents, teachers, child care providers, and any groups who work with children or families.
MaryAnn X. Meddish
Multiples and Specialty Diets
MaryAnn X. Meddish is the 2009 INA Nanny of the Year and has over 20 years of professional nanny experience. She specializes in working with multiples and children who require special dietary considerations. You can find some of her articles on the INA Blog.
Glenda Propst
Leaving a Family
Glenda Propst has 25 years of professional nanny experience. She was the 1991 INA Nanny of the Year and has been with her current family for 16 years. Mrs. Propst specializes in helping nannies through the transition of leaving a family. She is is one of the development members of Regarding Nannies. She also blogs at Gentle Transitions
Angela Riggs
Traveling with Families
Angela Riggs has been working with child care providers, students, parents and families for over 20 years. She has researched and participated in extensive traveling experiences with children and has planned enriching learning opportunities for them by utilizing local community resources as well as creative resources when traveling abroad.
Alice Shaffer
Getting Started in a New Community
Alice Shaffer has been a professional nanny for the past 15 years and is one of the development members of Regarding Nannies. She is also known by her peers and through her blog as “The Financial Nanny”.
Groupon: A great deal for the DC area and other cities in the USA
by Janinne Gardner
I am writing today to tell you of this wonderful website I have discovered. Actually I found it on Facebook which is rather amazing since those who know me know that I am rarely on Facebook. This great money saving website is called Groupon. The premise is that a company will give a great discount on an item or service if a certain number of people buy it. Usually the number of people who are required to buy (50, 75 or 100) is accomplished even before I open the email but occasionally I have to wait. So once the “group” has purchased the minimum number of “coupons,” “The deal is on!” When you sign up you request a city. Of course I have requested the DC area however I feel as though if I were going out of town I would check the groupon for where I am going for a while before I leave. Who knows where I may find a great deal. I also check cities where I have family and friends because you can purchase the groupon as a gift!
To read the rest of the article please visit: The Financial Nanny: Groupon
Financial Friday: Do You Have Your Gifts for Your Employers and Donations for 2009 done?
by Alice Shaffer
As 2009 winds down we have a few things left to deal with. Have you made your final purchases for your holiday gifts for your employers? Have you made your final donations for 2009 to your charities?
Donations:
Make sure you get receipts for those items you donated. Do a quick sweep of your closet for any winter items you don't need that someone at a shelter could use this winter. Many places are still taking items for holiday gifts. Check your local listings for the Salvation Army and Goodwill openings for donations.
Gifts for Employers
As nannies, we are sometimes in a bind on what to get our employers if anything at all. NannyMall LLC posted a blog post on this very thing a week or so ago.I recently had a NannyMall Nanny email to say she was giving gifts to the children of the family in which she was placed and she asked a really great question:
Is it appropriate to gift the parents and if so, what do you give them?
To read the rest of the article please visit The Financial Nanny
How To Make The Most Of Black Friday
by Alice Shaffer
The Financial Nanny
I love getting a great deal when shopping. As a nanny I shop for the family, and I am always looking at the sale items and so forth. They don't ask me too, I just do it because I enjoy finding a good deal.
Here is what you can do now:
1. Make a list of your family that you need to purchase gifts for
2. Make a list of your friends that you would like to purchase gifts for
3. Make a list of anyone's birthdays that are coming up in December, January or February.
To read the rest of the Article please go to The Financial Nanny Financial Friday: How to make the most of Black Friday
This is the last weekend to take advantage of our
NNRW Shopping Specials!
Monday Moxie: Spotlight on Central Florida Nannies
Tuesday Tips
A list of great websites an message boards to visit and explore
Wednesday Creative Nanny
Coloring pages to print with no ads!
Thursday Table Talk: Celebrating Penny Andrews 50 years in the Nanny profession
Friday Financial Nanny Alice shows us Part 2 of setting up a budget
Post a comment on any of our articles for the month of September and be entered to win an INA Membership.
Weekend Round Up for Regarding Nannies
In case you missed something on Regarding Nannies this week:
On Monday Moxie: It's not too late to register for Nanny Palooza
On Tuesday Tips we got some great back to school tips from Jacquie Ross
On Wednesday Creative Nanny, Bonnie Mills shared some Granita Recipes you can try with your kids.
On Thursday Table Talk, Lisa Stipe talked about being a newborn care specialist
On Financial Nanny Friday, Alice told us about Kids Woot
The month of September we are going to be launching our month long Nanny Recognition Celebration.
We will have lots of great articles and vendors offering special discounts just for you!
Remember, you can sign up on our blog to have your Regarding Nannies delivered to your email box every morning!
Woot has entered the kids market with the introduction of Kids WOOT this week. This site is going to be selling everything that is known to dealing with kids- carseats, toys, clothes and games etc. The term "kid" is loosely defined as anyone from 0-100. They will have all kids of "kid" products for young and old.
So what is the Kids Woot store?
Read the entire article on The Financial Nanny.
I was on vacation this past week in North Carolina, and went to Staples to pick up some stuff. The twenty minutes I was in the store was a financially rewarding one. They have an awesome deal on paper for printers till Saturday. $4.99 but after the rebate it is $1! You use their easy rebate system online. It is at stapleseasyrebates. They make it hard to give people an excuse as to why they couldn’t apply for their rebate. It is all online.
For the rest of this article on how to get money back from shopping at Staples: visit The Financial Nanny
In case you missed one of our posts here on Regarding Nannies this week, you can find links for all of them here on our weekend round-up.
Monday Moxie: Nettie Weber, owner of Perfect Match Nannies told us all about the Wisconsin Nanny Retreat (hurry registration ends this Sunday)
Tuesday Tips: Kellie gave us tips on Being prepared for a personal emergency
Wednesday Creative Nanny: Glenda shared ideas for how to have a rootin tootin Cowboy Day.
Thursday Table Talk: Myrna Alphonse wrote about child abuse and how to identify it. If you only read one post this week, read this one and pass it on to every nanny you know.
Financial Friday: Alice shared with us a great article from Dave Ramsey on how to stick to a budget.
This is the final week for our INA short term membership give away.
Here is how to enter
Even if you aren't entering to win the give away, we would really like to hear from you. Post comments, share ideas, talk about issues.
This blog is regarding nannies....we want to hear from you.
The other night at dinner, my teenager asked her preteen brother why he was so interested in what I gave for a tip at lunch. I shared with her the fact that he now puts the tip on our bill when we go out to dinner. Here is how this started:
to read more about this please visit The Financial Nanny's blog
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