#nannying

[robinskies]

being a nanny is so weird because there are kids that I played a massive part in raising who were with me all the time who I snuggled and kissed booboos and loved on, and I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t be able to pick me out of a line up because they were so small 😭😭

[ameliasrinksideyaps]

Going back to work for the first time in three (3) weeks due to holidays from both sides and I’m genuinely so anxious. Like avoiding going to sleep so I don’t have to awake up tomorrow. Don’t get me wrong I love what I do and I love the family I work for it’s just going back to full time work after three weeks off is going to be a lot. I also know L is going to have intense separation anxiety and likely a routine change so I have no idea what the day will look like.

Plus, I asked about reducing my hours from May so I can support more families over the summer and they said let’s talk in person so that will likely happen as well

Aaaaahhhhhhh anyways someone yell at me to go to sleep and tell me to stop being stupid and that it will be okay and I do know what I’m doing

Yall signed up for the yaps and here they are 😂😜

(He liked to hold hands before our break 🥹)

[glendaszines]

zines I made with a 4 year old today! 🩵🧡

while kiddo drew, I got bored and drew patterns. then I realized it could be a cool background for a zine, and that the markers in front of me were Bluey and Bingo colors. I printed out the phone wallpapers from the Bluey website for us to glue in, and realized while cutting I should’ve let the 4yo cut them out (I wasn’t expected them to be so good at cutting). the one the kiddo cut out was Bingo with face paint on. the kiddo designed and glued down the rest of the elements (like what way to write the titles and where the cut outs should go)

side note: I need to make a ko-fi or something to share my zine PDFs

I love making zines with the kiddos I babysit ♥︎

they always call them books and will correct you if you call them zines lmfao

seeing a “book” get made out of a single sheet of paper blows their minds (and so did my first mini zine)

especially for the younger ones, it’s a great collaborative art project to do that grows your relationship with each other

making zines strengthens their social skills (either by making them with you or by sharing copies of their zines), helps their hands develop and become strong, engages their creativity and imagination, improves hand-eye coordination, teaches patience and how to handle happy accidents as Bob Ross says, and engages their critical thinking

and there’s probably more benefits i don’t know about!

they will be clueless about what to make or put in their zines without seeing how you make your own or having ever seen one before, so be prepared to walk them through it or for them to model their work after what you’re doing

the kids are not alright, but they aren’t iPad zombies either. sure, so many kids have developed a screen addiction, but all addictions can be healed. [**this kid I made this zine with is fine / not an iPad baby btw] another 5yo I was coloring with is a little bit of an iPad baby and they literally said to me “coloring is more fun than the iPad”. the kids, like every kid ever, need connection. when I do crafts, activities, and games with kids, they’ve never asked if they can watch their iPad / tablet. the closest thing has been them asking if they can play a video game, and I play with them. ways to get them off the iPad: ask them what they’re watching and show interest in what they’re interested in (brings their attention back to the present moment and they get to connect with you), start doing an activity quietly yourself (in 5-15min they usually get curious and join you), for older kids invite them to a game or playful challenge and if they’re still really wanting screen time set a timer for 10-15 min and then they can chose to play with you or do something by themselves or with a sibling (be both kind and firm about it. be clear there’s no room for further negotiation on it and that the negotiation was that you’re giving them an extra 15 minutes. be kind and patient with them about this though because imagine an authority figure telling you you need to get off your phone. yeah, it sucks. you can also remind them when they’ll get to use their iPads / tablets again to help with processing not having it for the time being. Also! respect that they might be in active text conversations with their friends, so when you give them those 15 mins you can also remind them to let their friends know they won’t be using their device for the time being)

[headknight-oh]

I pissed the kid I nanny off so bad (because he had to go outside and play but his sick brother doesn’t). And now he’s writing me hate mail. He’s so mad he’s not even playing his video games. He’s drawing pictures of me getting killed by skibbidi toilet

[lilshineythingsworld]

observations i’ve made from working with kids for 8+ years:

Energetic ≠ Bad

Manipulation is learned. Kids try to manipulate you all the damn time, which is cute because they don’t know how. The ones who DO know how learned it.

Kids of all ages need to be engaged in as much physical play as possible, to the fullest extent that they are comfortable.

Competition is a poor motivator and it will come back to bite you in the ass.

Most boys are obsessed with balls. They will hit an age and you will no longer be able to say “ball” around them. The best way to deal with it is to laugh once, and then tell them not to beat a dead horse.

All kids are smart. This is their first time being a human, so they don’t know anything. The quiet or “slow” ones (which is bullshit) are often scared to ask questions, or don’t know how.

And my favorite: kids are just little humans. They aren’t extra pure or extra sweet just because they’re little (trust me). They also aren’t extra bad or extra anything. They’re small humans that don’t know much besides the fact they feel things they don’t understand.

[the-fan-blog-nobody-asked-for]

I'm a nanny and lately I've been reading Tim Drake: Robin when I'm at work and me and the toddler are stuck waiting for something. He's taken to the pictures and likes to sit on my lap while I'm reading (I obviously don't let him see any violent stuff).

At some point he pointed at Robin and then looked at me asking "baba?" (what he calls me) And I was like "that's Robin, Ra-bin". He kinda got it at first but then decided it was just easier to call Robin "Bobby" so now every time I flip to a page with costumed Robin on it he points and goes "Baba, look, it Bobby. Bobby!"

[karihighman]

Some previously unreleased 6x09 promo photos ©️DGE Press / ABC.