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New Year’s Eve plans? Check. Champagne? Check. A reliable, experienced babysitter? Oh, right. With the chaos of the holidays and the speed with which December moves, some parents forget or put off this crucial part of the New Year’s Eve puzzle. Because the holiday season is hectic enough, here is a complete guide to finding and hiring a great babysitter for New Year’s Eve.

WHEN TO POST YOUR BABYSITTING JOB

In a word? Now!

Interestingly, Sittercity polle… Continue

According to Salary.com’s annual survey, the average stay-at-home mom works an average of 94.4 hours per week and would earn a salary of $116,805. That’s a heck of a lot of overtime. But wait a second. That’s MORE hours than last year’s survey and LESS pay. What gives?

Back in May 2007, we wrote a blog about how the SAHM (stay-at-home mom) salary would be $138,095 annually for a 92-hour workweek.

Both that survey and this new one break down a mother’s job into the following duties (in order of… Continue

As a sitter/nanny, you have a built-in opportunity to give back to your community every single time you walk into a family’s home. In fact, you probably already gave back this past week, the one before that and the one before that. How, you ask?

You read to your charges.

Did you know that 44 million adults in America cannot read a story to a child? In fact, by reading this blog right now, you’re not even in the majority — 50% of adults in the United States read below 8th grade level.

Imagine… Continue