Maid To Match

03/25/2026

Many parents worry that their toddler must be in daycare or around peers to develop social skills. But neuroscience shows that children under 3 benefit far more from attachment with caregivers than from early peer interaction.

During these early years, strong emotional bonds with parents or primary caregivers form the foundation for trust, empathy, and social understanding. The brain is wired to learn about relationships through attachment, not playground interactions. Healthy attachment teaches children how to regulate emotions, communicate needs, and feel secure exploring the world around them.

While social experiences become important later, the first three years are critical for nurturing consistent, responsive, and loving connections. Focusing on attachment now creates confident, emotionally resilient children who will navigate peer relationships successfully when the time comes.

03/18/2026

Would you like to save $10,000+ over the next 12 months on your childcare and/or housekeeping costs? Is that even a question??! Watch this video and find out how!!

03/03/2026

There is a true crisis going on in America today and that is affordable childcare Parents are suffering and yet isolated by their exhaustion and busy lives. Politicians need to get involved. Parents need to unite and coordinate their efforts to push back against nanny expectations and rising rates. Agencies need to put parents before profits. Unless these things happen and so, I’m not sure where this crisis ends. Ask yourself what happens in this society where all moms need to drop out of the workforce because there is no affordable childcare to be found? And where is the conversation about this, the news articles, the attention that should be shining bright on this very serious issue?

03/03/2026

Is your nanny lying to you?! If she tells you “ I have to go home to my country to care for my sick mother/father/cousin/aunt/uncle/brother/sister/pet iguana” it is a lie. Yes even your lady. Yes every single time. Yes, even though your lady cried. Yes even though you saw text messages and she showed you pictures of a sick old woman or a man. Yes even though she told you how much she doesn’t want to leave. In every case where this happens, the family is grossly underpaying the person for what they are expecting, and really resist believing that the woman has left them to find a job that that’s paying a fair rate in this market. Until they see her at the park with someone else’s children 🙈. Or I send them a screenshot of her on Facebook or indeed.com job hunting a few weeks before. I’m sorry guys. Candidates aren’t stuck in jobs that are under paying in this market. There is such a severe shortage of nannies that if you don’t want to pay them the fair market rate then someone else will. Do I think any of the rates right now are fair and makes sense? No! Salaries have gone up by over 50% in the past four years and have become un affordable for many families. But the expectations of many families are also inflated and completely out of touch with reality for what they expect to pay. You want a nanny who is an experienced driver, an excellent cook, can clean your 3000 square-foot home, and care for your three young children for $1000 per week as a Live In? That’s $16 per hour guys. I know this is a hard truth and it hurts. But no one ever goes home to take care of sick relatives. That is the market giving you cold hard feedback about what you can expect to get for your money in the nanny market today.

03/02/2026

A Mom, a maid, or a lover- pick any two.

03/01/2026

Sometimes it’s hard for Moms to decide to hire help with housekeeping, driving kids to activities, making dinner - and yet at the end of the day they feel they don’t have enough time to connect with their children, and certainly don’t have enough energy left to show up for their partner. The bottom line is that there is only one you.- your children only have you as a mother, your partner only has you as a wife. You can pay someone else to do your laundry and load the dishwasher.. but you can’t pay someone else to be a mother to your children in the same way that you are. We will never get more than 24 hours in a day, but we can buy back some of our time and spend it on the things that truly are meant for us alone.

02/23/2026

02/23/2026

The short answer? NO! The long answer? It depends. According to the law after July 2024, domestic employees are all classified as hourly workers. This means that they are not eligible to be paid by salary, our due overtime pay after 40 hours per week, and have many protections that other hourly workers have. BUT they cannot also claim the benefits that salaried workers have available to them, namely, being paid during a snow day or other state of emergency. I’m too often irritated, seeing nannies on line demanding that they have their cake and eat it too. I am not anti-nanny - I am pro fairness! If a relationship is not fair, then it cannot develop mutual trust, and will not last. One of the reasons that the relationships we helped to build continue for over three years on average is that way ensure our families and nannies or housekeepers feel that the agreement they craft is a fair one. That is the type of relationship that grows and sustains itself over time. If you have questions about current law, relating to domestic workers, feel free to reach out and I’m happy to share what we know.

02/19/2026

WOW! I just had a match beteeen a housekeeper/nanny and a family end…..after TEN YEARS!! I truly love what I do! ❤️💝🌸

02/13/2026

Mary Poppins is available at 123 Main Street Never Never Land! For the rest of us will have to hire human beings who have faults and strengths. The trick to building a long lasting positive relationship with your nanny or Housekeeper is to find the person whose strengths match your priorities, and then give them grace for the small faults that they have. Does this mean that you have to deal with someone who is rude or unreliable or looks at their phone all day or gets defensive? Of course not. Integrity and a work ethic are non-negotiable. So is having what I call “a servant’s heart”. Beyond that, we help you find that person whose energy resonates with yours, and whose strengths align with your priorities.

02/13/2026

Yes- but only if they are Filipina 🤪