Please consider PATRICE, she is such a catch. We've employed Patrice full time (live out) for the past 14 months, to care for our twins, starting when they were 6 mos old. Due to a change in my career (with a pretty painful pay cut) we need to let her go. But we are extremely sad to let her go. Patrice is a very warm, very reliable, naturally tidy person with the strength of four young nannies (my twins are big
) and she has helped us through a language delay with one of our kids (who received speech therapy). She definitely believes in no TV and lots of reading, and is supportive of healthy child development strategies.
Note: Before us, she came recommended to us because she was a twin nanny for three years for a family downtown (who relocated twice within NYC and she helped with all the family's changes as those twins grew from 3 months to 3 years old).
Patrice has always prided herself on being prompt, or early, and we appreciated this greatly! Her smile lights up a room; our daughter & son both love her dearly. She does light housekeeping (for us she keeps kitchen tidy, folds laundry, changes linens in the nursery, vacuums, etc.) and she's very amenable to following a schedule regarding nap and meal times. We have always felt secure about the safety of our kids when in her care. (We both worked outside the home; our kids were exclusively in her care in our UWS home and neighborhood all day). She's available to start immediately. Can't recommend her highly enough.
Call me if you have any questions (Christine 646-245-7900), or feel free to call Patrice directly: 646-724-2260