10 Must Reads for Every Nanny

In today’s online, search-engine dependent world, it’s easy to forget the value of a simple, old-fashioned book. Because building a career as a successful nanny requires constant education and keeping up with current childcare trends, it’s wise to invest

in a well-stocked bookshelf. Here are ten books that all nannies should add to their collections.

1. How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elain Mazlish – Three decades after its first printing, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk is still a favorite among parents, educators and childcare providers. Stressing the importance of constructive communication, authors Faber and Mazlish provide clear, innovative instructions for helping kids cope with feelings of anger and frustration, express your own anger in calm, non-hurtful ways and resolve conflicts.
2. Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child : Eliminating Conflict by Establishing Clear, Firm, and Respectful Boundaries by Robert J. MacKenzie Ed.D. – At some point in every nanny’s career, she will encounter a strong-willed, difficult-to-manage child. While these charges are often the most frustrating, they can also be among the most insightful and entertaining of the bunch. The key to working with strong-willed children is learning to communicate with these children effectively and to establish firm boundaries. Through Robert MacKenzie’s beloved Setting Limits series, nannies and parents of strong-willed children can learn how to calmly and effectively regain control in their relationships with children.
3. Help: How to Find, Hire, Train & Maintain Your Household Help by Marta Perrone – At first blush, Marta Perrone’s Help: How to Find, Hire, Train & Maintain Your Household Help may seem like a volume useful only to employers of household workers, but this isn’t quite the case. Nannies can benefit greatly from this behind-the-scenes peek into the employing parent’s mind as they learn to land posts more easily and establish stronger, healthier working relationships with their employers.
4. Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish – Very few nannies will work through their career without at least one post with multiple children. When those charges are close in age, sibling rivalry is almost unavoidable. Armed with Siblings Without Rivalry, however, nannies are able to help their charges become less competitive, cooperate more and get along better. In addition to making her working hours a bit more peaceful, she’ll also be helping her charges to establish a life-long relationship with one another, free of jealousy and conflict.
5. A Perfect Child With a Perfect Nanny: By Giving Time, Love and Patience by Lolita Bryan –Penned by a nanny for nannies, Lolita Bryan’s A Perfect Child draws upon her thirty-plus years of working with children from infancy to the preschool years. Because of her specialization in infant and toddler care, Bryan offers a wealth of information for nannies with less early-childhood experience.
6. Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders by Kenneth Bock and Cameron Stauth – Authors Bock and Stauth claim that autism rates have risen by 1,500 percent in the last two decades, with the numbers of childhood ADHD, allergy and asthma sufferers rising dramatically as well. An estimated one in three children today suffers from one of these four conditions, making it more important than ever for childcare providers to have a strong knowledge of the symptoms, aggravating factors and special needs of these kids.
7. Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice by Howard E. Gardner – Great nannies know that they are far
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   more than childminders: they are also educators. With this knowledge in mind, books like Howard E. Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences are veritable goldmines of information for progressive educators. Exploring the

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   concept of various types of intelligence and intellectual aptitude, Multiple Intelligences can help parents and childcare providers spot the strengths and weaknesses in individual children, encouraging growth and intellectual diversity.

8. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman – Positing that “emotional intelligence” levels are far stronger indicators of future success than traditional intelligence-quotient results, Daniel Goleman provides a strong outline for sowing the seeds of emotional intelligence in children and adults alike.
9. Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka – Author Mary Sheedy Kurcinka’s Kids, Parent, and Power Struggles is an invaluable resource for parents and childcare providers alike, helping adults to understand the most efficient methods of understanding the reasons behind misbehavior and enforcing effective disciplinary tactics. Kurcinka helps nannies to turn conflicts into chances to instill valuable skills and teach life lessons such as dealing with strong emotions and problem-solving ability.
10. The Everything Toddler Activities Book: Games And Projects That Entertain And Educate by Joni Levine – As a volume in the ever-popular Everything series, The Everything Toddler Activities Book helps nannies to remember that one of the most important aspects of a toddler’s day is learning through play and exploration. With ideas for games, crafts and activities that keep little ones laughing and learning, this book is sure to be a favorite.

These titles are barely the tip of the proverbial iceberg; there are thousands of books that both new nannies and seasoned veterans can glean priceless knowledge from. It’s recommended to tackle these books with a highlighter in hand to mark particularly relevant passages, making them easier to reference back to at a later date.

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