Nanny Appreciation Day in Dallas. Please join us on October 25th from 10:30am-12:00pm at the Dallas Arboretum (located at 8525 Garland Road). Come socialize with other nannies and enjoy food and games for the kids! We look forward to seeing you there! You MUST RSVP 
It’s that time of year again….football season! If you don’t plan to go to the game, MBF has work for you! Contact Courtney Coker, Temporary Placement Director at 
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The MBF Dallas team is excited to start another school year. We have added new staff and a new upgraded phone system in order to better serve you. We have an expanded pool of candidates to draw from this fall and we continue to expand our other lines of business such as chef services, housekeeping, personal assistants and night nannies. Sincerely Yours, Kim Winblood [ TOP ] Dallas Nanny Appreciation Event Mom’s Best Friend Acquires We Care Nannies More Children, Higher Pay Website/Email Updates [ TOP ] 10/09/06: Columbus Day (school holiday): Let us know if you can work! 10/25/06: Dallas Nanny Recognition Event (see website for details) 12/07/06: Annual Nanny Christmas Party (more details to come)
[ TOP ] We are looking for a college student in a sorority to help us network and recruit on campus! If you are interested in working part-time for MBF, please email leslie.chambliss@mbfagency.com. We are also looking for a sales professional in the Houston area or willing to relocate to the Houston area to assist temporarily during November and December while one of our Houston sales staff is on maternity leave. If interested, please email your resume to laura.patterson@mbfagency.com. Don’t forget to check our job board at http://www.mbfagency.com/local/candidate/jobs.asp to view our open permanent positions. As always, with football season and the holidays approaching, we need lots of temp nannies. Please look at your calendars and email courtney.coker@mbfagency.com with your availability. [ TOP ] Please remember to refer your qualified caregiver friends to MBF! To thank you for your referral, MBF will send you a $50 check for all temp nannies you refer after their first 2 jobs worked. You will receive a $100 check for all PT nannies and a $200 check for all FT nannies referred to MBF after they have been placed with a family. In addition, your name will be entered into a quarterly drawing for a spa gift certificate. We value our relationship with you and greatly appreciate your recommendation. [ TOP ] By Tiffany Keeton, Nanny Manager and Nanny Network Organizer Q: “How do I communicate with my employers about their children’s ever-changing needs?” A: I get this question a lot! So many families fit the two-working-parents mold and finding time to communicate with them about their children is difficult. I have several suggestions to help every adult in your charges’ lives provide a consistent and united approach to their upbringing (and to make YOU look great in the process)! First, document EVERYTHING! Are you using your Daily Communication Log? Take a few minutes to jot down what you and your charges did that day. Make it easy. If you have a regular schedule, make a template and just fill it in with a few specifics. For example, weather-permitting, you are always outside from 9 – 9:30 am. Just put in what you did outside that day (dug in the sandbox for buried treasure, rolled balls down the slide to see which went fastest, stared at the clouds looking for familiar shapes). Even if they don’t look at it every day, they DO look at it and like being informed! Next, use your Log to make observations about the children, like when they reach milestones (walking, jumping, a new word) or exhibit certain behaviors (biting, hitting, hugging). Research strategies for meeting these new challenges and enhancing their new abilities. Put these in a different section and begin introducing them in your daily routines. Schedule a quarterly one-on-one meeting with one or both parents to discuss specifics. My boss and I do this, and it is amazing! Even though I spend at least 2 hours a day with her and her children, it never ceases to amaze me all the things we both bring to the table at these meetings. “Hey, Tiff, [boy 1] has been cursing since we got back from our summer trip. Have you noticed this? This is what Dad and I do. What do you think?” Sometimes it’s me, ”Hey, [Mom], what do you think about the bottle? Are you ready to let it go? Do you think he is?” [Sometimes we are frustrated with something related to the children, and this is an appropriate time to discuss it.] Bring your Communication notebook to the meeting, go over trends, and point out some of those observations you’ve been collecting. This is a great tool! Finally, when it comes time to approach your employers about new strategies for dealing with discipline issues or current and future milestones, you can present them with your findings and together you can map out the childrens’ next steps. Through documentation, observation, research and communication, you can really be a positive force in their lives and take your career to the next level! Keep up the good work! [ TOP ]
[ TOP ] By Lisa Vines, MBF Recruiter/Trainer and Special Projects Manager Halloween is right around the corner and creating crafty Halloween snacks is so much fun for children. While the kids are making paper and pipe cleaner spiders, why not eat one? You will need: [ TOP ]
MBF volunteered at Rainbow Days, Inc helping prepare activities for the children’s groups. Rainbow Days provides children living in high-risk situations with the skills they need
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If you were on an airplane in April, you may have seen an article featuring our company. If you missed the issue, click here to read the article and hear the answer to the question “Can one overscheduled, overburdened, toast-burning woman find true happiness in the warm embrace of a can-do personal assistant?”
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Please keep us informed of the significant events in your lives! If you have something special you want to share with other nannies such as graduations, engagements, weddings, and births, please e Congratulations to Kelly Brown, a Dallas temporary nanny! Kelly was recently engaged to her long-time boyfriend Bryan Henson. They are currently both students and plan on getting married on June 15, 2007 in Clarks Gardens. We are extremely excited for Kelly and wish her the best in this new season of her life.
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Looking for an exciting outing for children? Here are just a few of the activities in Dallas/Fort Worth: Frisco Storytelling Festival Boo at the Dallas Zoo Christmas Boat Parade and Bonfire Candlelight at Old City Park [ TOP ] To Unsubscribe from the Nanny Newsletter or for questions regarding any of the content, please
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to overcome adversity and stay drug-free. Rainbow Days offers support groups throughout the Dallas community and has expanded its services to include alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention programs and serves more than 60,000 children in the Dallas communicy alone. For more information, go to www.rdikids.org.
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