CHOCOLATE AFFAIR

Chealsey Williams

Caite Kendrick & Melissa Schaffner

Deborah & Greg Fields Megan Stanford, Donna Bishop & Becky Edwards Alycia Wiggins & Megan Morris

Brittany Harding & Sebrina Campbell Story & Photography by Tony Centonze

Rebecca Lopez and her team at Clarksville Parks & Recreation recently hosted the annual Chocolate Affair at Wilma Rudolph Event Center, a much-anticipated event that always sells out quickly.

Four hundred ticket holders enjoyed this year’s array of chocolate treats from nine vendors, including Blessed Occasions Catering, Miss Gladys’s Cheesecakes, and Chealsey’s Cookie Jar.

A limited number of VIPs were granted early entry to the morning and afternoon sessions. This year’s award for Most Creative Use of Chocolate went to So Fly Bagels for its chili-chocolate bagel bites with cold brew cocoa cream cheese.

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Leigh Harpel & Katelan Thompson Lillian Merriwether & Cindy Nolan Maggie Houts & Rebecca Lopez Grace Lucas & Kay Jones

Maria & Mia Dougherty Brittanie Garcia & Joseph Brooks Geoffrey Eisner & Lori Marland Renay Ross & Diane Davis

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Benefits of Hiring An In - Home Nanny

VS. A TRADITIONAL DAYCARE SETTING

All children in childcare deserve to have a caring, warm and responsive caregiver who provides a loving and nurturing environment.

When children receive one-on-one care, the interactions they have with a trusted caregiver helps give them the sense of self-worth and security needed to confidently explore their world and how they fit into it. When a child develops a healthy relationship with a consistent caregiver, it helps to create a stress-free environment where the child thrives.

How children function as they grow into adulthood hinges on the experiences they have during the first few years of their lives. If children are raised by caring and attentive adults and are in a safe, stable and predictable environment, experts tell us that they are more likely to do better in school and in other crucial areas of life.

Brain development during the first years of a child’s life is very rapid and is vulnerable to environmental influence. During the formative years, both positive and negative influences may have a lifelong effect on children.

A nanny is hired by parents to provide customized, personalized and attentive care to the couple’s children in the family’s private home. Nannies meet the physical, emotional, social and intellectual needs of the children in their care.

Nannies do more than entertain the children; they engage them by providing age-appropriate activities to enjoy together. On a typical day with his nanny, your child may enjoy a walk to the park, a play date with group of similarly aged friends, a nutritious lunch, a few stories and a restful afternoon nap. These types of intentional interactions increase language and social skills, provide an opportunity for children to safely explore their environments and build the foundation for self-discipline.

Unlike in a daycare setting where caregivers must focus on all the needs of all the children, a nanny is only concerned with your children. Since nannies care for children in their own homes, they aren’t exposed to the myriad of germs and infectious diseases found in daycare settings, which means fewer trips to the doctor’s office and fewer prescriptions of antibiotics.

Since a nanny is your employee, you establish the framework for your employment relationship. Not only do you get to handpick your child’s caregiver, you set the hours, the salary package and standards of care you wish upheld. Unlike in a daycare center where your child has to adapt to the rules and regimens of the program, you can work with your nanny to establish the care environment and daily schedule that best meets your child’s needs.

Having to get yourself out of house on time can be a battle, never mind having to get the children up, ready and out the door for daycare. Since your nanny comes to your home, she can arrive well before you need to leave for work, allowing you and your children to get ready and enjoy a stress-free start to the day.

While daycares have strict requirements regarding sending mildly ill children to their centers, nannies are accustomed to caring for mildly ill children, which means you don’t have to worry about finding backup care or calling out of work sick.

And speaking of sickness, while children cared for by nannies have many social opportunities, nannies can limit a child’s exposure to sick children, therefore limiting his germ exposure.

While some parents write-off hiring a nanny believing it’s an option that isn’t affordable, the truth is when parents have more than one child requiring childcare or work untraditional hours, nanny care can be more cost-effective than daycare. In addition to not having to pay premiums and fees for early and late care, parents pay per family, not per slot.

Finding ther perfect nanny for your family can seem overwheling and unattainable, thats where The Nanny Collection comes into play.

They extensively vet all interested providers through a 12 point screening process. This key process includes government level background checks, in depth application and resume reviews, multiple rounds of interviews, and personally conducted reference checks.

Once they find a few qualified applicants that they think would fit in perfectly with your family, you are able to personally meet and identify your top choice!

All nannies and childcare providers that The Nanny Collection refers to you will be offered key training opportunities before the start of employment commences, including those as critical as SIDS, CPR + Basic Life Support, and First Aid.

The Nanny Collection then drafts you and your nanny a personalized work agreement and a legally binding, lawyer approved employment contract. This helps protect both the family and the nanny if any issues were to arise by setting clear and realistic expectations,

Once the placement is made, they help aide you in the hiring process by setting you up with numerous different professional connections, including one with our preferred payroll company, an industry leader.

The Nanny Collection is truly with you every step of the way, and continue to offer support to both the family, as well as to the nanny. They know that as your children grow, their needs will change! This is why they want their nannies to continue to grow with them. In order to advocate for this shared growth, they offer our nannies biweekly professional development opportunities at free or little cost.

YOUR CHILDCARE SEARCH. ELEVATED.

At The Nanny Collection, we operate by a highly researched and refined placement process. Developed with agency tested and industry proven techniques in mind, our nanny placement process is guaranteed to provide an elite, tailored experience unlike any of our competitors.

Our agency strives to demonstrate an unmatched commitment to professional excellence, only working alongside individuals who demonstrate a profound commitment to becoming the best versions of themselves that they can be, which is precisely why we believe in offering exclusive professional development opportunities to our nannies at little to free cost.

We feel that these measures not only ensure the highest quality of care at the start of the working relationship, but help constantly shape it from that point on.

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