I booked a MomPro yesterday to get some relief and got the text message below.  Our Pro for the day asked about doing anything extra around the house!  Now usually we separate our "household task" hours from childcare/child related clean up hours, but this MomPro had a bit of extra time...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

I recently asked parents on social media, “What has a nanny taught you?”  I was blown away by the response!  I look forward to sharing those responses with you in the next few weeks, but for today’s blog I wanted to focus on what nannies have taught me over the years.

I’ve been researching nannies and parents for about the past year.  In developing the Same Team Online Course, I came from the parents’ typical online search perspective: why am I struggling to find the right matches?!  I had an idea of common experiences on care dot come...

When my son was about 4 months old, I started searching for the first nanny we would work with.  I began the process the same way so many parents do:  they ask other parents (online and offline) how they found the nanny they worked with.  When I was chatting with one particular...

For the past 7+ years I have worked with in-home caregivers in various capacities.  My own caregiving crisis (quick nanny turn over, not being able to find a nanny, not knowing then when I know now about the nanny search + hire process) became the first thread in which my academic career...

When I started the Same Team online course project roughly a year ago now, I came at the project through the parent lens.  I had heard over and over the online nanny search fails and believed that parents were generally conducting their searches the right way.  As I reflected on my own...