Are you a Childcare Voucher or Tax Free Childcare scheme fan? Or are you frankly unsure which best suits your needs but you know you should access one of the schemes that help paying for childcare?
Why not combine two favourite things? We love a good cup of coffee and we love sharing parenting hacks. So we decided to add the two together and starting on Wednesday 2nd March and then every first wednesday of the month we are meeting at Vesuvio Cafe in Three Colt Lane for a natter, some…
Why Nannies Need to Say No Working under the table, what a fabulous old fashioned expression. It suggests an underhand exchange of money with no questions asked. Don’t ask, don’t tell. You take the money and a secret pact is made, binding together employer and employee to keep the…
Just a spoonful of sugar helps more than the medicine go down! Rather than rejecting Mary Poppins as an embarrasement to the profession we instead still love and embrace her which is a mystery to me. However seems she’s quitting on us and thats due to exploitation. Yep, she feels she’s not paid enough and doesn’t earn…
There seems to be a new sport in the English press, bash the British Nanny, an individual characterized as demanding, inflexible and overpriced. The fact that Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge has a Spanish ‘super nanny’, SamCam an Australian and a former Nepalese newly British gal, does not really justify some of the stinging comments…
These days Nannies aren’t the only folks working ‘at home’, or should we clarify that, in someone else’s home. The concept of the home-office is now commonplace and there are a whole swathe of new employees having to figure out how they can work in this new environment. Back in 1989 when we opened Riverside Nannies it was…