Friday, October 6th
12:30 - 5:00 pm ---- unConference
8:00- 10:00 pm---- welcome reception
8:00- 10:00 pm---- welcome reception
Saturday, October 7th
7:45- 8:45 am---- breakfast and registration
9:00- 5:30 pm---- workshops, networking breaks and lunch
9:00- 5:30 pm---- workshops, networking breaks and lunch
Sunday, October 8th
8:00- 9:00 am ---- breakfast
9:00- 12:30 ---- workshops and goodbye session
9:00- 12:30 ---- workshops and goodbye session
Remember that continental breakfast and buffet lunch on Saturday and buffet breakfast on Sunday are included in your registration price. All other meals at your own expense. Menus will be posted 2 weeks prior to conference to allow you to make alternate accommodations if required by your dietary needs.
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Confirmed Workshops/Speakers
Workshop Descriptions
Saturday
The Business Side of Nannying with HomeWork Solutions
Taxes, contracts and essential paperwork will be discussed in this presentation from experts in domestic employment and payroll, HomeWork Solutions.
Daniel Rafeedie is the VP of Sales & Marketing for HomeWork Solutions, Inc. HomeWork Solutions was founded in 1993 and specializes in Household Payroll and Employment Taxes for families in all 50
states. Daniel engages with HomeWork Solutions’ referral partners – household staffing agencies, accountants, and financial service professionals - to provide household payroll and “nanny tax” compliance service to our partner’s clients who employ nannies, senior caregivers, housekeepers, maids, and other household workers providing services in the family’s private home.
Daniel brings a deep understanding of payroll and finance from his previous years with ADP and Deloitte. He holds a Bachelors Business Administration, Finance from James Madison University.
How to Work Best with a Nanny Agency
Join Dulany Dent, President of The Nanny Network who will discuss the benefits of working with a nanny agency. We will cover what to look for in an agency as well as steps you can take to make the relationship more productive.
Dulany Dent is the President of The Nanny Network, LLC, a full-service agency serving the Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas. Dulany purchased The Nanny Network in 2006, after using the agency to hire a full-time nanny when her first child was born. Since that time, she has made significant enhancements to the company’s service offerings and processes, allowing the agency to enjoy meaningful growth and expand into new geographical areas. Dulany has been a member of APNA since 2009 and joined the board in 2015. Prior to owning The Nanny Network, Dulany worked in
the investment management and recruiting industries, while always possessing a strong desire to help support women in business. Dulany holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Colgate University and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is married, the proud mom of three young children and two dogs, and loves team sports.
Developing a Grit and Growth Mindset
Based on new research, this workshop will help you transform a child’s mindset from “I can’t do it” to “Trying new things is fun, mistakes and all.”
Pascale is a Certified Adlerian Parent Educator with the Parent Encouragement Program (PEP in Kensington, MD). As a Certified Parent Educator at PEP, Pascale has been teaching Parent Education classes and workshops for over 14 years. In addition to being a parent educator and a parent of two teens, she is a certified professional life and business coach, Founder and CEO of Global Life Coaching LLC.
FORUM: Working with Older Children
This open forum will be a discussion group for anyone who works with or is interested in working with kids older than 8 years old. We will gather together and discuss issues and ideas that will help to provide support and inspiration to those who do this work.
FORUM LEADER: Tirzah Winterton
11:00- 12:15
Car Seat Safety with THE CAR SEAT LADY
Join Dr. Baer as she discusses car seat safety. She will provide information that EVERYONE who transports kids in a car should know including when to transition kids from one seat to the next, common mistakes (and how to fix them), and more.
Dr. Alisa Baer is a board-certified pediatrician, nationally certified child passenger safety instructor, and co-founder of The Car Seat Lady - an advocacy organization dedicated to changing the statistic that car crashes are a leading cause of preventable death and injury to kids. In her 19 years in the field she has consulted with many of the leading car seat manufacturers in the design and development of their car seats, helped create programs that change how children travel in urban environments, and helped parents install more than 15,000 car seats. She also manages The Car Seat Lady's popular social media - Facebook, Instagram, YouTube - in addition to editing the website.
What’s for Dinner? Nutrition and Nourishment for the body, mind, and spirit
Research has shown that there’s nothing more important to a child's (or adult’s!) wellbeing than how dinner happens in a family. But as family life has gotten busier and busier, dinner has suffered. Meal planning can make all the difference in reducing stress, regaining control, and having happy healthy outcomes. Come learn how easy and fun meal planning can be!
Laura Moore is CEO of DInnerTime, a highly personalized meal planning web app, whose mission is to "bring millions of families back to the dinner table.” Laura grew up in a small town on Cape Cod, as the daughter of a commercial fisherman and a nurse. Laura attended Dartmouth College and Harvard Business School before launching a series of entrepreneurial “adventures” with her husband, Charlie, in Maryland for the past 25 years. Their son, Bryan, who was raised with the wonderful help of fellow nanny, Sharlotte Beecher, recently graduated from Harvard College.
Power Tools for Power Struggles - a PEP workshop
Be patient. Avoid power struggles. Calm tantrums. Sound impossible? It’s not! As you learn more tools for calm, effective problem-solving, you will lay the foundation for a healthy, productive family life, and enjoy more fun with your children now.
Pascale is a Certified Adlerian Parent Educator with the Parent Encouragement Program (PEP in Kensington, MD). As a Certified Parent Educator at PEP, Pascale has been teaching Parent Education classes and workshops for over 14 years. In addition to being a parent educator and a parent of two teens, she is a certified professional life and business coach, Founder and CEO of Global Life Coaching LLC.
FORUM: Nanny Organizers, NNTD Planners and Group Leaders
This open forum will be a discussion group for anyone who takes a leadership role in planning for their nanny community. We will gather together and discuss issues and ideas that will help to provide support and inspiration to those who do this work.
FORUM LEADER: Sue Downey, Nannypalooza organizer and NNTD leader
1:45 - 3:00
Healthy Brain Development- What Can We Do? Infant to Grade School
Sponsored by Your Nanny Boutique
Early childhood is a crucial time for brain development. As nannies, we have to think about the choices we make for our charges and how this affects this development. We will discuss recent neuroscience and how we can support best practices for the early years. Come and learn a little about how the brain is developing and how things like electronic media, unstructured play, and personal relationships will impact our kids.
For more than forty years, Linda Lombardo has worked with children and families in a variety of roles- as a teacher, school principal, family counselor, and yes- as a live-in caregiver. She is a self described neuroscience geek. Currently, she is in private practice. Linda is one of our most requested speakers and this is her third visit back with us!
Baby Gear: Creating a Functional, Safe, and Eco Friendly Environment for Baby. What you need. What you don’t. What you should know.
Sponsored by Your Nanny Boutique
Choosing baby gear can be a confusing and sometimes overwhelming undertaking for parents and caregivers. There are so many options on the market, discovering which factors make a product right for each individual family will help you make suggestions in creating a safe and eco friendly baby environment. As nannies, we work with families that value different factors when choosing the products in their home. Price point, convenience, technology, safety, eco-safe materials, and more all come into play when going through the myriad of options on the market. In this session you will learn how each of these factors impact the children you work with, how to choose the right gear for each family situation,
what all of those chemical terms mean when it comes to eco-safe materials, and all of the latest and greatest in the world of baby gear!
Sara McAllister began her infant care career after spending the summer of 2007 volunteering in an infant orphanage in the Andes Mountains of Peru. That summer sparked her passion for childcare. She began her 8 year career working as a professional nanny throughout and after college, receiving her BA in Psychology from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. Sara is a trained Newborn Care Specialist through NCTA and is owner of Welcome Home Baby, LLC, based out of Newport Beach, CA. Sara is a private consultant and offers 24/7, overnight, and travel care in Orange County and nationwide in addition to speaking and teaching in the newborn care field.
Good Fences, Happy Families: Limit Setting with Young Children- PEP workshop
Sponsored by Your Nanny Boutique
What’s the secret to getting children to put away their toys, play nicely with others, go to bed and do all the other things parents want them to do? Find out why firm and friendly limits work so much better than time out and other punishments, and get tried-and-true tips for building and maintaining those secure, loving boundaries.
Pascale is a Certified Adlerian Parent Educator with the Parent Encouragement Program (PEP in Kensington, MD). As a Certified Parent Educator at PEP, Pascale has been teaching Parent Education classes and workshops for over 14 years. In addition to being a parent educator and a parent of two teens, she is a certified professional life and business coach, Founder and CEO of Global Life Coaching LLC.
FORUM: Nanny Managers, Household Managers
Sponsored by Your Nanny Boutique
This open forum will be a discussion group for anyone who considers their job household management or a combination of nanny duties and household management. We will gather together and discuss issues and ideas that are unique to this hybrid job as well as provide support to each other and network to share ideas throughout the year.
FORUM LEADER: Charlotte Hilliker, experienced Household Manager
3:15- 4:30
Healthy Brain Development- What Can We Do? Teens and Adults
We know that the brain continues to develop well into the teen years. AND that there are impacts from our adult lives that affect our brains as well. We will talk about caregivers and their needs from a neuroscience perspective. It’s important that while we care for others we do not ignore ourselves!
For more than forty years, Linda Lombardo has worked with children and families in a variety of roles- as a teacher, school principal, family counselor, and yes- as a live-in caregiver. She is a self described neuroscience geek. Currently, she is in private practice. Linda is one of our most requested speakers and this is her third visit back with us!
Setting Boundaries with Bosses: Don't Say Yes When You Want to Say No!
The most challenging part of being a nanny is not the fussy infants or crabby toddlers, but communicating effectively and authentically with employers. Learn some basic assertiveness and communication skills to improve boundary-setting and enjoy more mutually respectful relationships with employers.
Susan Fetcho, LCPC, ACS, is a licensed professional counselor and clinical supervisor. She is the Coordinator of Clinical Training in the Department of Applied Psychology and Rehabilitation Counseling at Coppin State University in Baltimore. She also serves as Clinical Director of Lighthouse, Inc., a Maryland Youth Service Bureau, where she provides clinical supervision to staff and graduate student interns. She has over 25 years of experience in counseling children, teens and their families.
Bringing home baby; how an NCS supports a new family well and you can too!
Often nannies don’t come into the picture until a new baby is a few weeks old—you are often not there when a new baby first comes home, but what if your NF is expecting or you are hired while they are and you are starting right away—Come learn the tips, tricks and secrets NCS use to make this transition go as smoothly as possible?
Over the last 5 years, Kathleen Butler, the owner of Your Baby Butler, LLC, has has turned her passion for babies into a rewarding career as a highly sought after Elite Newborn Care Specialist. She is also a Certified Lactation Counselor, Postpartum Doula and Infant Sleep Specialist and IBCLC candidate. When not caring for babies, Kathleen enjoys spending time with her husband, their four sons and a variety of exotic birds. She is a New York City native who currently resides outside of D.C.
Sunday
9:00-10:15
Fostering a Culture of Compassion, Understanding and Connection - Developing Complete Social and Emotional Awareness
Join Danny LaBrecque, early educator and host of the interactive children's web series, Danny Joe's Tree House on Facebook live and YouTube as he shares techniques in simple puppetry to facilitate conversations about sensitive topics.
Sometimes it is hard for both children and their adults to find the words to express complex emotions. As we all know, the language of the young child is play. Through play we caregivers are given the opportunity to truly listen to both verbal and non-verbal behavior and in the process get a pretty good idea of what the child is thinking and feeling.
Danny LaBrecque has been in the field of early childhood development for over 15 years. Before that he was a classically trained song and dance man. He has supported the social-emotional needs of young children and their parents and caregivers starting in Chicago back in 2000 and now in Baltimore. Danny
has always thought of the role of the educator as a guide--a caring adult who encourages the child to engage in the process of active thinking as opposed to just telling her what to think. He understands that play is the language of the young child. Through it, we can help that child and his parent or caregiver to safely examine an array of social-emotional topics ranging from separation anxiety to sibling rivalry to larger shared social events, like coping with tragedy. Danny uses traditional play therapies like simple hand puppetry, art, dance, dramatic play and music to facilitate these family examinations on and off the interactive screen.
Creating Everyday Learning Experiences- Early School Ages
Do you desire to create more engaging home activities for the children in your care? Do you need new concepts to liven up the routine? In this interactive workshop you will look at your home environment with new eyes and design everyday learning experiences that are simple and fun. You will learn also teaching strategies that will make the activities engaging and easy to implement.
Kandice Cole is a curriculum writer and consultant. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Masters Degree in Teaching from the University of Chicago. She began her teaching career in Sacramento, CA and has taught Pre-K-6th grade in classrooms in Sacramento, Chicago and Houston. She has written curriculum for the University of Chicago's Everyday Mathematics and is currently creating social-emotional curriculum for Committee of Children. She also brings 15+ years experience as a tutor, nanny, and mother's helper. Kandice currently resides in Northwest Indiana with her husband and daughter.
Digital Success & Safety For You, Your Friends and Your Family
This multi-award winning program will eliminate the myths that Anonymity, Social Privacy and Disappearing Digital Content is possible with digital tools & apps. The audience will gain knowledge to promote responsible use of digital tools while also obtaining the wisdom to prevent negative, irresponsible, and malicious digital behaviors and trends.
All attendees will obtain information about:
• PC & Mobile Security
• Permanence of Digital Content
• Public Databases & Digital Transparency
• Preventing Abuse of Current & Future Apps
• Poor Social Media & Oversharing Behaviors
• Many Other Current & Future Cyber Issues year.
Richard Guerry is the founder of the non-profit organization the Institute for Responsible Online and Cell- Phone Communication (IROC2). Throughout the 1990's, at the height of the technology revolution, Richard served as an interactive marketing executive. In his tenure, he encountered the darkest areas of the internet and discovered countless individuals unknowingly being manipulated and schemed, and their content being stolen and exploited. As a father of two young children, and an avid user of digital technology himself, he decided to make a change and start a new revolution centered on technology– Digital Consciousness.
In 2009, Richard left corporate America, and applied his vast experience and knowledge of internet safety to serve as the Executive Director of IROC2. He now travels across the country speaking to digital users, young and old, regarding the importance of practicing a Digital ConsciousnessTM in ever aspect of life to avoid any current – of future – digital diseaseTM.
Richard is also the author of multiple cyber safety and citizenship books, and has been a featured speaker at many national conferences and conventions, including the National Conference on Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Prevention, the International Bullying Prevention Association, and the National Symposium on Child Abuse. He has also appeared as a digital safety expert on various media outlets like CNN, Radio Disney, MTV, Parade Magazine and many other local, regional, and international networks and publications. Richard holds a bachelor's degree in marketing and advertising from Rider University.
10:30- 11:45
Take a Bow- Theatre Games and Techniques to Use with Your Kids
Did you know that theater is one of the best ways to teach empathy? In Lauren Gunderson’s Huffington Post blog, How Theatre for Young People Could Change the World, she says that “so much of the toxicity in this world comes from a collective draining of empathy. We don't understand each other, and we don't want to. But theater invites us -- no, forces us -- to empathize.” This practice lays the foundation for strength and compassion. Come and join us for a quick look behind the curtain at how an actor’s tools can enhance your play with kids. We will demonstrate and talk about interesting games and techniques that will teach everything from empathy to better communication to higher self-confidence. There is so much to be learned from theater! Come play with us!
Martha Reddick has been a nanny and teaching artist in the Chicago area for over five years. She loves working with children and is both grateful and excited to blend her love of theater and education into her day job. Martha has her Masters in Education from the University of Tennessee, and, after a brief stint in formal education, discovered nannying young children to be her passion! She loves finding new activities and adventures to engage children as they develop, and she has even created a nanny resource podcast called Chronicles of Nannya to share her ideas with other nannies. Thanks for listening!
Creating Everyday Learning Experiences- Preschoolers
Do you desire to create more engaging home activities for the children in your care? Do you need new concepts to liven up the routine? In this interactive workshop you will look at your home environment with new eyes and design everyday learning experiences that are simple and fun. You will learn also teaching strategies that will make the activities engaging and easy to implement.
Kandice Cole is a curriculum writer and consultant. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Masters Degree in Teaching from the University of Chicago. She began her teaching career in Sacramento, CA and has taught Pre-K-6th grade in classrooms in Sacramento, Chicago and Houston. She has written curriculum for the University of Chicago's Everyday Mathematics and is currently creating social-emotional curriculum for Committee of Children. She also brings 15+ years experience as a tutor, nanny, and mother's helper. Kandice currently resides in Northwest Indiana with her husband and daughter.
A career in transition: Nanny to NCS.
Things are changing and you want to make a change too—Come join this expanded length session and examine if an NCS Career is right for you, what training you very likely need no matter how much infant experience you have, learn market realities (Yes, you can make 6 figures if you are willing to work for it; No, not very many NCS actually make that kind of money), what you need for travel (Global Entry, a great suitcase, a great easy-care wardrobe, and more) learn market differences, learn what clients and now agencies are looking for and ask questions of the leading training company in the US.
Over the last 5 years, Kathleen Butler, the owner of Your Baby Butler, LLC, has has turned her passion for babies into a rewarding career as a highly sought after Elite Newborn Care Specialist. She is also a Certified Lactation Counselor, Postpartum Doula and Infant Sleep Specialist and IBCLC candidate. When not caring for babies, Kathleen enjoys spending time with her husband, their four sons and a variety of exotic birds. She is a New York City native who currently resides outside of D.C.
FORUM: Working with Work from Home or Stay at Home Parents
This open forum will be a discussion group for anyone who works with or is interested in working with families where there is a WAHP or SAHP. We will gather together and discuss issues and ideas that will help to provide support and inspiration to those who do this work.
FORUM LEADER: Helen McCarthy