This one is for all my professional nanny friends who are NOT members of INA.
In honor of my 35th anniversary in Childcare, I am going to give away one INA Membership.....but you have to work for it!
If you are an INA Member already share this with someone who isn't please.
Here is what you do: sign up to follow this blog.
Then tell me the best advice you ever received about getting through leaving a family.
Post it on my facebook page, or post it here, or email it to me
nannytransitions(at)aol(dot)com
I will choose a winner via
random.org on Sunday.
Feel free to share this on your Facebook pages, or your yahoogroups. If you do that, let me know and I will give you extra entries.
I will post the winner here on Sunday night.
Glenda
Coming Soon!
9 years ago
I just started with one full time family this summer after juggling 2 part time families for the last 8 years. This is my first full time family. So I have started and ended with 4 previous families over the last 8 years. I cannot say I have been given advice on how to end with families, I have just experienced the agony for myself four times now. It certainly does help if you can end the job in a positive way. In two out of the four families there was ongoing communication about their changing needs between the parents and myself, so we could end in a positive manner, as they let me know it was coming with enough time to prepare and find a new family.
ReplyDeleteWhen I accepted my newest job, it was the first time that I had to initiate the conversation,(confession)that I was leaving not with just 1 family but 2 families for a total of 5 children lodged in my heart.
It was heartbreaking for me to not only to part with the children but with the parents too, whom I also loved. But they understood my need to have just 1 family instead of juggling 2, besides which the the pay, hours,just everything!!! was better for me. But fortunately I was able to give them plenty of time to find my replacement, so there was not any hard feelings for me leaving them in the lurch.
I didn't mean to write a book :) but I have been there, done that 4 times and just wanted to share a bit about my experiences.