Nutrition Label and Why It Matters

Nutrition Label and Why It Matters

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new Nutrition Facts label for packaged goods to reflect new scientific information, including the link between diet and chronic diseases such as obesity and heart disease. The new label will make it easier for all...
Tips from a Traveling Nanny

Tips from a Traveling Nanny

It’s mid-November and I was holding a glass of port wine, which one should always do when in Porto, Portugal. My father and I were on vacation and struck up a conversation with another father/daughter duo. We began talking about our travel plans. We were in Portugal...
Helping Nannies Manage Change

Helping Nannies Manage Change

As nannies, there are a lot of things that change in your life. The children in your charge will grow and need different levels of care. You may need to change families as circumstances change. Childcare standards and norms evolve.  It is important to be able to...
Pikler Principles for Infants

Pikler Principles for Infants

Dr. Emmi Pikler was a respected pediatrician who also managed the Loczy orphanage (1946-1979) in Hungary with Marika Reinitz. Dedicated to child development observation, Pikler identified specific principles she believed allow babies to develop in the way nature...
Teaching Diversity to Children

Teaching Diversity to Children

We hear a lot of talk about diversity these days. So what is Diversity? Diversity is the condition of having or being composed of differing elements. Diversity is also defined as the inclusion of different types of people, such as people of different races or...
Waldorf Educational Approach

Waldorf Educational Approach

“Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.” Stated by Rudolf...
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