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		<title>Hire a nanny&#8230;to stay out of jail</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Did it ever occur to you as a parent that you might need a sitter to stay out of jail?

It certainly did to Michigan stay-at-home mom Carmela Khury, after she was held in contempt of court for not being able to hire a nanny.  Khury brought her children, 3 months and 8 months, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sitters&#8211;Read this Post (and Watch this Video) to Protect Yourself Against Online Scams</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Sitters&#8211;online scams are all around us&#8230;including in the caregiving world.  It&#8217;s hard to tell sometimes that a person is not a real individual, but a scammer.  

To make sure you&#8217;re being safe in 2010, watch Sittercity&#8217;s video Silence of the Scams to remind yourself when to respond&#8230;and when to report.  (And hey, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sitters&#8211;Are you Using Sittercity&#8217;s Free iPhone app?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Want to make 2010 your year of jobs?  Check out Sittercity&#8217;s free iPhone app for sitters.  It allows you to easily get, view and reply to jobs from parents.

Do we have an application for parents yet?  No.  But it&#8217;s coming.  Moms and dads, stay tuned for more apps from Sittercity.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question&#8211;Do you Know the Top Three to Ask?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Do you know the top three questions to ask a potential new sitter?

Drumroll please&#8230;

1. Do you know First Aid, CPR and the Heimlich maneuver?
2. What are your theories on discipline?
3. What is your previous experience?

We&#8217;ve posted these before, but people keep asking, so we wanted to re-post.  Make sure to ask these and your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robot Babysitters?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Somebody asked us the other day if there had every been a robot babysitter that tried to register on our site.  While that&#8217;s never happened, there have been several robot entrants into the caregiving world in the past decade, most notably in Japan.  What got the ball rolling?  Microsoft, always up for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Know&#8230;?  Ben Folds, Babysitters and Purple Toenails</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Musician Ben Folds was first inaugurated to the Frampton Comes Alive soundtrack—a track that influenced his music in later years-because his babysitter used to play the record and paint her toenails purple while working in his home.

Did your babysitter or nanny ever influence your current career in a certain way?  Share!

Photo Credit: Google Images
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		<title>Scholastic is Bringing Back The Babysitter Club Books!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Did you ever used to read The Babysitters Club?  We did, and we loved every minute of it!  In fact, we have the entire Babysitter Club series here in our office, so that we can dip into it every now and then.  Great news for fans&#8230;Scholastic is bringing back the series, and it&#8217;s hitting shelves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caring for Charges is just the Beginning.  Caring for the World&#8230;that&#8217;s Next!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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Caring for children, pets and homes is just the beginning.  Caring for the world&#8230;that&#8217;s next!

Sittercity has been finding various ways to support the Haiti cause and our partner, American Red Cross.  For every follower that follows @sittercity on Twitter, we are donating $1 to the cause.  But, in our sitter newsletter this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spy Next Door is a Fun Flick&#8211;and Worth it for the Outtakes</title>
		<link>http://www.sittercity.com/blog/childcare/the-spy-next-door-is-a-fun-flick-and-worth-it-for-the-outtakes.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Who doesn&#8217;t love Jackie Chan?  I was invited to a screening of his new movie The Spy Next Door in Chicago this past weekend, and it brought back lots of memories for me.  My dad and I are huge Jackie Chan fans&#8211;I remember many late nights when I was younger &#8220;ooo-ing&#8221; and &#8220;ahhh-ing&#8221; at various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs that the economy is looking up</title>
		<link>http://www.sittercity.com/blog/childcare/signs-that-the-economy-is-looking-up.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Think the economy is still not doing well?  Think again.  Sittercity.com reported a 128 percent increase in job postings in the last quarter of 2009 over our first quarter postings and more than 9,700 new jobs posted in December alone. We asked you why, and a recent survey of you all showed that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Genevieve: What Do I Do When My Boyfriend is Just Not Good with Kids?&#8211;Confused in Columbus</title>
		<link>http://www.sittercity.com/blog/childcare/ask_genevieve/ask-genevieve-what-do-i-do-when-my-boyfriend-is-just-not-good-with-kids-confused-in-columbus.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Dear Confused,

That&#8217;s a great question!

For some people, being around other people&#8217;s children ranks right up there with public speaking, driving downtown and going to the dentist &#8212; they do anything they can to avoid it.

There&#8217;s just something about those high-energy little ones that can turn a completely secure individual into an unusually awkward adult. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
		<link>http://www.sittercity.com/blog/childcare/happy-new-year.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.&#8221;

~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

Or, as our very own Chicagoan Oprah would say:

&#8220;Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.&#8221;

-Oprah Winfrey

Happy New Year, everyone!  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spy Next Door&#8211;Get Complimentary Advance Screening Tickets!</title>
		<link>http://www.sittercity.com/blog/childcare/the-spy-next-door-get-complimentary-advance-screening-tickets.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sittercity.com/blog/childcare/the-spy-next-door-get-complimentary-advance-screening-tickets.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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While Sittercity doesn’t boast of having former CIA spies as part of our sitter pool, when you cross one with a babysitting gig it certainly makes for big fun!  And that’s exactly what you get with The Spy Next Door, where Jackie Chan as former CIA spy Bob Ho takes on his toughest assignment to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Eve Sitter&#8211;Check or Checkmate?</title>
		<link>http://www.sittercity.com/blog/childcare/new-years-eve-sitter-check-or-checkmate.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes our blog posts from last year are so relevant and so canny that we just have to post them&#8230;again.  The following post was posted on December 12, 2008, and by golly, we can&#8217;t find a good way to say it anew, so we&#8217;re just going to say it over.

New Year&#8217;s Eve plans? Check. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Know&#8230;?  Warren Beatty the Babysitter</title>
		<link>http://www.sittercity.com/blog/childcare/did-you-know-warren-beatty-the-babysitter.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sittercity.com/blog/childcare/did-you-know-warren-beatty-the-babysitter.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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To Warren Beatty’s claim that he was eager to have a child on Letterman in 1991, David Letterman replied “the only reason he had a child is so that he can meet babysitters.”  But Beatty did get the last laugh on Letterman.  Wife Annette Bening used Warren Beatty as a full-time babysitter on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Calm a Crying Baby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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  When a baby is just born, people often say that there&#8217;s no better sound than the infant&#8217;s first cry. That first shriek is a clear sign that the baby is responsive, healthy, conscious and finally here.

But what about all of the other shrieks after that? Several months after the birth, many parents and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Know&#8230;?  Babysitting Can Go To The Birds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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Alfred Hitchcock, smarting from the price of local childcare, once quipped “A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theater admission and the babysitter were worth it.”

Parents, what do you think?  Have babysitting prices gotten out of control lately?

Photo credit: Google Images
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		<title>Are you and your sitter ready for Black Friday?</title>
		<link>http://www.sittercity.com/blog/childcare/are-you-and-your-sitter-ready-for-black-friday.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven reasons why you need a sitter for Black Friday:
1. If you&#8217;re buying gifts for He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named that lives in icy climates, best not to do that in front of prying little eyes.
2. It&#8217;s hard enough to keep a handle on yourself in ravening hordes of shoppers, much less anyone much smaller.
3. Do you really feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need a Little Help from your Friends?  Nanny Support Groups</title>
		<link>http://www.sittercity.com/blog/childcare/need-a-little-help-from-your-friends-nanny-support-groups.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Ever felt like you&#8217;re a bit overwhelmed, but that you didn&#8217;t know where to turn to?  Caregiving can be a hard profession&#8212;after all who cares for the caregiver.  There&#8217;s actually many resources out there for nannies that want to talk&#8211;you just have to know who to call.  The following list was submitted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Know&#8230;?  Babysitting as Weight Loss.</title>
		<link>http://www.sittercity.com/blog/childcare/did-you-know-babysitting-as-weight-loss.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Johanna House, winner of the 2004 America’s Next Top Model, was a 23-year-old babysitter from Jackson Mississippi when she won her model status.  Formerly obese, House slimmed down fifty pounds during her full-time babysitting job before entering the lineup of girls for the 2004 Top Model show.  When she won, supermodel Tyra Banks [...]]]></description>
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