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BABY CARE – Newborns – Childcare

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 | Our Best Advice | No Comments

Baby Nurses and Nannies have very important jobs in the domestic help staffing field as employees in household work, involving both child safety and child development with daily childcare.

If you are a Baby Nurse or Nanny with top references and excellent skills working in the domestic help field, we encourage you to apply and register with us to learn more about top Nanny jobs our clients offer.

Here are some TIPS to add for your Newborn, Baby Care, Childcare jobs, or someone you know that performs this work.

The book Baby Signs, by Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn, is a terrific resource for parents with children under three years old. It also makes for a great Baby Shower gift. For children who attend schools that use American Sign Language (ASL), ASL can afford the same benefits as baby signs as long as the signs are simple. Learning Baby Signs is an important language parents and childcare providers need to know that reinforces baby bonding too.

Another important topic for children is vaccines. Robert Kennedy Jr. provides a detailed PDF file about child vaccinations you can download to give a Pediatrician, read for further information, or forward to your boss or someone you know. We all need to collectively advocate for children and their health as the controversy around vaccinations continues. Children are undeniably our greatest treasures.

For Newborns, Swaddlebees diapers covers with unbleached cotton prefolds and a snappi to hold it together. They are very good at containing leaks. I love all the different colors and patterns that Swaddlebees comes in and they make for really cute baby pictures.

Toddlers are a great age and delightful to teach always best done by example. “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” is simple with toddlers.  Reduce becomes a way of  life as they see we rely on less stuff and use our imaginations to live a GREEN lifestyle.  Reuse becomes a daily activity by trying to reuse everything (or at least minimize), including making fun crafts and home made toys kids love to participate in.  The box a present came in can be the start of a reuse game or craft project. Recycle becomes a way life as we teach our kids to donate their used clothes and toys. I also recycle ribbons and gift bags along with wrappings if at all possible.

A great TIP for dealing with KIDS and shopping is to know that it often helps to let your child pick out one or two things at the store. Instead of saying, “No,” (which most likely will immediately make them respond with a “Yes!”) when a child asks for something give them an alternative by saying, “Let’s write that down.” Carry a pad and pen to write down a list of things your child points out. When you’re done with shopping, read back a few of the things that might be good choices, and let him/her pick one or two on the list. You can add items you believe would be good to include as a joint idea by gently directing them to select it. This interactive exchange provides a narrowing of things under your control, and teaches the child there is a process involved for buying the child participates in. Helps to avoid most tantrums. Most upsets are caused by tiredness, hunger, thirst, or a child not feeling good. Always prepare ahead to avoid them and refrain from shopping with a child who’s unwell.

It’s good advice for all Nannies to take the Child Passenger Seat Technician Certification course, which teaches how to install car seats correctly. Keeping your baby well protected is imperative because motor vehicle crashes are one of the single greatest killers of Americans according to safety statistics. What to look for in a car seat (or infant carrier) and how to use it as Itsabelly Baby Planners recommends for a quick list is below. If you have any tips not mentioned here, please share them with us.

Make sure to test the car seat in your car before purchase. You want to make sure it fits appropriately in your back seat with the seat belt mechanism or latch system

Check child seat ratings, recalls and Child Passenger Safety information on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) site: www.nhtsa.gov

Read product reviews for input from customers who have already used the car seat

Remember the most expensive car seat with all of the bells and whistles doesn’t always equal the safest car seat

Keep your baby in a rear-facing car seat in the back seat from birth to at least age 1 and 20 lbs or whatever the upper limits of the seat are from the manufacturer

Do not buy a used car seat as you don’t know if it’s still under warranty, been through a crash, or has been recalled

Although we do not recommend using a second hand car seat, if you are given a used car seat from a close relative you must make sure it’s not expired (find exp date on back of seat), not recalled and has not been in an accident

Use the appropriate car seat for your baby’s height and weight at all times

Use the car‘s safety belt or LATCH system to lock the car seat into the car. Your car seat should not move more than 1 inch side to side or front to back. Grab the car seat at the safety belt path to test it.

Make sure the car seat is not reclined more than a 45 degree angle, so that baby’s head stays in contact with the seat and the baby’s airway stays open

Find out where your airbags are. Never put a rear-facing car seat in front of an active airbag!

Have your car seat installation checked at a local Safe Kids coalition by a Child Passenger Seat Technician who’s been certified to install car seats correctly at www.usa.safekids.org

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ESTATE MANAGERS – PERSONAL ASSISTANTS

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 | Our Best Advice | No Comments

At ISA Staffing we get online registration for job applications from Estate Managers and Personal Assistants seeking work overseeing our clients job orders (see the job services listed). Many of you take advantage of this and our free consultation service. There is no fee for applying with our agency, so you are welcome to submit your information at any time. In the domestic help household work not only are Luxury Estate Homes involved, but Luxury Yachts, Luxury Sailboats, Private Airplanes, Luxury Cars, Luxury Travel and Luxury Goods, among other job criteria the Estate Manager or Personal Assistant oversees for their Employer. That involves knowledge of technology and software along with other advanced skills. TIP for today: GET HAPPY!

The most important thing you will do each and every day is Get Happy. Nothing in life is more important to you then this. If you are happy doing what you do, the rest falls into alignment with it. Daily practice of joy is the first and only job we truly have in life. Live your life in harmony with your greatest goodness. So simply put: GET HAPPY! Smile at everyone you know, see, and meet: every day.

Our past clients are people who had and ran the best homes in the world, with the highest skilled staff necessary to maintain them we provided. To find the right person for these jobs through an agency requires a top agency! We are the top domestic help staffing agency. Our current clients want the same results and we give it to them. We currently have clients who want what is “best of the best” required to run their Luxury Estates, which are homes filled with the finest art and antiques or modern museum quality furniture, that an Estate Manager or Personal Assistant must know how to maintain properly.

This does not merely involve restoration and preservation, it also requires a contact list already developed of who those best vendors are, and knowing how to search for the best people to work with top professional expertise.

Enjoy learning and you’ll always maintain your passion for it! There are several TIPS we continue adding to Our Best Advice, so browse our other TIPS too, many are invaluable. We do it to assist you whether you’re registered with us or not (although we encourage you to do so to broaden your job search in the future whether you’re seeking one or not). I urge everyone to continue learning. Upgrade your skills in every criteria possible that involves working for High Profile and VIP clients. We know how important it is to stay open and continue to grow in being the best at what you do. We’ve been at it the longest under the same ownership, with the unsurpassed reputation as best of the best (as our gallery page of past clients further confirms). Keeping up with current and upcoming trends and latest tech is  important for Estate Managers and Personal Assistants to keep Employers informed about our near future. We’re quickly heading into totally new technology, beyond most peoples knowledge.

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Luxury items like the “fly in the sky” eco sailboat Renault plans to unveil around 2015 is a great example. We can see clients who love sailing and ocean water sports line up to buy that sailboat as soon as it emerges. We have more clients who are millionaires/billionaires in the world today then ever before, and they will assuredly make their quality of life more robust with such fun luxury items. We are made to create, be creative, and enjoy the contrast of our new creativity. Make sure your boss knows that as the best Estate Manager or Personal Assistant, you stay on top of trends and the latest GREEN and Eco Friendly technology emerging. Eco friendly version of luxury goods is quickly becoming the standard criteria for reducing carbon footprints and having fun while doing it. TIP: As a top Estate Manager and/or Personal Assistant, you need to be ahead of the curve about the latest GREEN TRENDS so network to learn what they are, and browse daily online for the latest innovations applicable to your job.

We do not charge a registration fee to jobseekers. If you have top skills and excellent references working for someone as an Estate Manager or Personal Assistant, please contact our office to register or do it online here today. We would love to get you your dream job, as we’ve done for so many jobseekers loving their work and doing it proudly!

Serving Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Bel Air, Benedict Canyon, Torrance, Hancock Park, Laurel Canyon, Los Feliz, Marina Del Rey, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Melrose. Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Encino, Woodland Hills, Topanga Canyon, Westwood, Hollywood Hills, Pasadena, San Mareno, Santa Barbara, Orange County, Ventura County, California, New York, & the greater United States…

Our Best Advice has been brought to you by www.ISAstaffing.com, renowned Best of The Best in Household Work and Domestic Help staffing. Visit often for other great ideas, use our Tell A Friend featured link to this blog, and our Domestic Staffing website to pass our HOT TIPS and renowned services. THANKS!

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