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Nannies for Modern Moms: The Essential Guide for Hiring the Right Nanny for Your Child and You

By Alyce Desrosiers, LCSW

Finding a Nanny book coverThis book is an essential guide providing you with all the tools needed to choose a Nanny with the right characteristics, skills and knowledge to provide safe, reliable and trustworthy care for your child! So many mothers struggle with finding the right person to take care of their children and many of these moms are completely lost when they start this task. This book acts as a step-by-step guide for parents, helping them deal with the logistical and emotional aspects of choosing the right nanny. It addresses the heartfelt worries parents have about this decision, the common misperceptions about the nanny search and all the tools needed to get through the process successfully. The book has worksheets to help parents personalize their search and it also outlines the different health, safety and criminal background checks that each family should conduct before they hire someone.

This is a book for parents, grandparents, friends and colleagues -- anyone involved in a search for the right nanny! It includes a search for a mother s helper, family assistant or babysitter and addresses the latest hiring trend: Nanny share arrangements.

240 pages
Perfect Paperback
8 x 8 in.
ISBN 098157730X
$19.95

Bulk Order (10 copies or more): Email orders@alycedes.com



Finding a Nanny in the San Francisco Bay Area

A Step-By-Step Workbook with Local Resources in the Eight Bay Area Counties
By Alyce Desrosiers, LCSW

Finally, a guide that tells Bay Area parents exactly what they need to do to find a nanny in the Bay Area! National guides can give you an overview, but this book tells you exactly on which bulletin boards to tack an ad. Where to send a nanny for CPR classes. Where nannies in the Bay Area look for jobs. And what pay they expect.

Not only does this book give practical, local advice and provide worksheets and forms for parents to use in the process, it also addresses the emotional aspect of leaving your child with someone who is at first a total stranger.

200 pages
Perfect bound
8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
ISBN 1-930074-00-X
$19.95

To order: contact me by phone at 415-331-NANI, or order online from Susan Vogel, publisher at www.pince-nez.com. Also available at local bookstores and online at Amazon.com

Susan Vogel, Publisher
Pince-Nez Press
1459 18th St. PMB 175
San Francisco, CA 94107
Tel: (415) 267-5978
Fax: (800) 579-3614