Our podcast is debuting Season Two, find Adventure Nannies On Air wherever you listen to podcasts!
With over 10,000 candidates applying to positions through our agency each year, we simply do not have time to meet and interact with each one – but we don’t want to limit the resources and expertise we have developed over the last several years to only candidates who are in the running for our sought-after positions.
The podcast is regularly hosted by our co-founder and CEO Shenandoah, and the original founder of Adventure Nannies, Brandy Schultz, who now has two children and an Adventure Nanny of her own.
In this episode, Brandy speaks with Jaime Lanin, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant who works with Head Start. Listen in to learn how to care for yourself throughout the trauma of living through a pandemic so that you’re able to effectively support the kids in your care. Learn more about practical coping skills and regulating yourself during heightened moments of stress.
Resources From Jaime:
The 5 C’s:
- Connection
- Coping
- Consistency
- Control
- Competency
Calm Down Chart (Pyramid Model)
Feeling Faces (Pyramid Model)
Breathing Strategy Poster (Conscious Discipline)
Problem Solving Solution Kit (Pyramid Model)
Taking a Break: Using A Calm Down Corner (Pyramid Model article)
- ChildMind Institute: Extensive and thorough array of articles focused on mental health/wellness of children and families, always updated with relevant resources, i.e. all things COVID, big things in the news, deeper topics like discussing race and racism with children, political unrest, the insurrection, etc). Most articles are also available in Spanish. Follow here for Child Mind Institute Instagram.
- Books/Workbooks by Dr. Dan Siegel and Dr. Tina Bryson – “The Whole-Brain Child”, “No Drama Discipline”, “Parenting from the Inside Out”, “Brainstorm” (www.drdansiegel.com)
- The Pyramid Model: Focused on earlier ages, infants through preschool/Kindergarten-aged children. A plethora of information: strategies, toolkits, charts, social stories, handouts, articles, visuals, and more (available in multiple languages). Scroll down to the bottom of their homepage and click their resource library. Their resource library is endless. The Calm Down Chart, Solution Kit, and Breathing Strategies handout came from here.
- Conscious Discipline: Focused on earlier ages, preschool-elementary. Many resources downloadable for free when making a free account. More available with a paid membership. Topics focus on emotional expression, emotional regulation/coping skills, social skills, conflict management, etc.
- Instagram Account Recommendations: Big Little Feelings, Curious.Parenting, MonaDelahooke, Neurons2Narrative, LindsayBraman, Latinx Parenting
- Kids books about feelings (catered to younger children, preschool-elementary): “Ruby Finds a Worry” – Tom Percival, “Where Do They Go” (about grief) – Julia Alvarez, “AlphaBreaths” – Christopher Willard, “Breathe Like a Bear” – Kira Willey, “The Invisible String” – Patrice Carst, “Mouse Was Mad” – Linda Urban, “Listening with my Heart” – Gabi Garcia, “Listening to My Body” – Gabi Garcia, “I Can Do Hard Things” – Gabi Garcia, “Once I Was Very Very Scared” – Chandra Ghosh Ippen, “Tomorrow I’ll Be Brave” – Jessica Hische, “Be Kind” – Pat Zietlow Miller, “When Sadness is at Your Door” – Eva Eland, “The Boy with Big Big Feelings” – Britney Winn Lee
- Favorite store to purchase books from other than Amazon: Kido Chicago. A super wide array of diverse representation in books focused on social-emotional learning.
- PsychologyToday.com: Therapist “phonebook” of sorts, to look into therapy for children (and adults) as additional support.
We hope you will enjoy Adventure Nannies On Air as much as we have enjoyed creating it so far, and look forward to developing more and more ways we can support and stay in touch with nannies around the world. Questions for us to answer on the podcast or suggestions for topics you would like to hear about can be sent to podcast@adventurenannies.com
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