I’m in my 40’s reflecting back on 8 years of hiring babysitters and nannies.  It’s had its ups and downs, and there were many lessons I learned along the way.  One of those hard and humbling lessons was that our family basically needs a cued up and ready rolodex of several babysitters, or nannies lo...

Serena, I feel you!

Serena Williams, who needs no introduction, recently announced her resignation from tennis citing work/life balance issues as her driving reason.

Even for someone who has reached the pinnacle of her career, certainly with many resources and support, she said this:

“Believe me,...

I have thought about this question a lot over the past 8 years as a mom.  I can say I’ve experienced glimpses and spurts of feeling “mothered as a mother” but it often happened by pure chance and inconsistently.

After countless talks on the playground and surveying 100s of moms and parents, I have ...

Well after about 30+ hours of travel our family of 4 made it to the small South Indian Village of Elurupadu (picture taken and posted with permission).  

I was a HUGE adventurer and traveled the world in my 20s... even surviving a 3-4 day transsiberian train trek and illness in the middle of the Mo...

Much has been said about “moms not having a village anymore.”  I’ve contributed to this conversation by suggesting that moms in previous generations have had it better than us because they had aunts and uncles next door to swoop in and hold the baby, help in the home, etc.  However, I have experi...

If you are like me as a new mom, I had high hopes that the seasoned parents, especially moms, in my family would blissfully take my baby for several hours while I slept or that they would know *exactly* what I needed after having a baby.

Interestingly, 8 years later, I've been able to reflect on th...

As many of you know, I stepped away from an academic research position a few years back to buckle down as primary parent of 2 small kids at home.  That didn't stop my brain from reaching into tough psycho-social problems needing to be solved.

One of those big problems centers around the online self...

By now, most folks following the Same Team community know I have deep respect for the work of nannies and have acknowledged how much our family has benefitted from working with nannies.  Inside my online course , I outline Nanny Industry Standards, the right way to come to a pay range, tax/legal ite...

I can’t believe I’m saying it but I will have a kindergartner and a third grader in just a few short months.  They both will wait for the big yellow school bus.  They both will have full days of school.  At the same school.

I need a minute to let that sink in.

I know I’ll probably have a good cry ...

You may be feeling like a tired, bewildered tumbleweed blowing through the mesa of online nanny search sites… but do not fret.  Same Team is here!  If you haven’t enrolled in our free nanny search + hire tips workshop what are you waiting for??

Parents coming out of the pandemic cannot afford to do...

Many of you know that I've been taking a deep dive into the nanny industry to deliver the most important gems for parents (like me) to take the right nanny search, hire, and onboarding steps on those unwieldy self-search platforms like care dot come and inside Facebook groups. 

In any case, parents...

I confess, I was SUPER nervous to present my talk on why we shouldn’t cancel parents to the International Nanny Association (INA) last week.  I know that less than ideal exchanges between parents and nannies unfold on social media platforms, and in actuality both sides can take steps to improve this...