Anita is one of the Nannies in Ridgewood that came from a family of eight!

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“Our children love and respect Anita as their nanny who has helped them reach many developmental and educational milestones! My husband and I have two children; Kendal is five years old and is in kindergarten, and Ronnie is three years old and is in preschool. Anita has been with us since our family initially moved from London, England and has certainly handled the challenge of helping to facilitate the children’s adjustment to our new home well! Being myself a mother who works from her home office, I personally instructed her on the needs of our children along with our goals, values, discipline style and her expected responsibilities. Anita exhibited much flexibility and ingenuity especially in the first few weeks. Being without television or radio, toy supply, etc. until they arrived in freight from London, she successfully kept the children engaged with educational and fun activities that she brought to our home. She also has kept the children busy with excursions, reading, singing and learning nursery rhymes, and theatrical Broadway scores, and enjoying poetry and creative storytelling. Anita went beyond her given hours when she saw we needed assistance to keep the children comfortable and happy. One night, after we had shortly moved to our new home, after searching out the children’s newer bed linens among the many boxes, Anita offered to stay late and prepare both the children’s bedrooms because of the time constraint on us that day. Anita has been conscientious in her responsibilities. She has spent overtime hours to sort through and organize the children’s generous supply of toys, games and clothes from the freight boxes. Anita has also assisted my children, as needed with their schoolwork and has been careful that the work excels and is done neatly. She routinely went beyond what was asked of her with her job responsibilities! Two special challenges that Anita helped us with were motivating and helping Kendal to read (when she first arrived on the job) and being intelligently alert, prepared and cognizant of our children’s health. With the experienced advice of a teacher friend, knowledge from her classes at Montclair State University, training in the Montessori principals, use of flash cards of all sorts, poems, songs, Anita has helped my children advance in their skills. But, most importantly, she has incorporated her knowledge of phonics into reading with Kendal so that she can help herself when reading a new word. Likewise, Anita looked for every opportunity to expose and introduce Ronnie to mastering numbers and letters of the alphabet, whether it is on a book cover, on a package of diapers, traced letters with him, or sang about them or identified them on his alphabet bus. As far as both children, she always challenged them to learning new vocabulary, geography, science wonders, and speaking articulately, stimulating in them a love and interest in poetry as Joyce Kilmer and Haiku Japanese poetry. Pantomiming is their favorite game now when they get bored with their toys and games! Anita showed a genuine love for incorporating learning into fun games some of which she created herself, stimulating our children to speak in full sentences and politely and cleverly correcting their grammar. For example, Anita reinforced the knowledge of our home phone numbers and addresses through her “Tow Truck” game. As far as work ethic, Anita has exhibited a strong one by bringing in creative and fun things to learn and do such as Tropical Fish Color forms for the window, Corky the Clown to learn to count and multiply by 5’s, threading colored beads on a cord, counting, colored frogs to teach categorizing, dot-to-dot book to reinforce the order of numbers and has composed her own songs to teach important things like: “Continents”, and “A,E,I,O,U”. She even brought in teeth brushing score sheets to remind the children to brush their teeth well. Anita consistently has shown a calm and patient demeanor which is a very important when someone is caring for little children. Anita is familiar with the dynamics of family life and holds a respectful love for children! For all these reasons then, I recommend Anita to your agency as one of the highest caliber Nannies in Ridgewood!”

“Anita has been a joy to work with over the past 4 years! Our children have grown to love her immensely as their nanny, and count on her for many developmental and educational milestones that they have achieved over the years. Anita is a very gentle person that disciplines with a strong conviction rather than a loud voice. We really appreciated this! We really believe that this is important to the development of the children. Allowing them to be disciplined with a gentle touch has molded them today to be very polite and caring children. She also takes a refreshing approach to educating the children. Our children are better off today because of the lessons Anita has taught our children! For example, she taught Audrey how to read by using flashcards, poems, songs, and fun games to emphasize phonics and improve Audrey’s vocabulary. Likewise, she looked for every opportunity to expose and introduce Andrei to letters of the alphabet; on a book cover, on a package of diapers, traced letters with him, drew them on the easel or sang about them, and identified them on his alphabet bus. As far as both children, she always challenged them to learning new vocabulary, geography, science wonders, and speaking with good grammar. She always had them learn through games, which is how Andrei learned his colors so fast! Anita also went beyond what was asked of her with her routine job responsibilities! She spent time cleaning and tidying up the garage when time permitted, volunteered and drove with Andrei to attend Audrey’s Olympics since the rest of the family’s schedules did not allow them to attend, and also volunteered to stay overnight if inclement weather was forecasted so my wife and I could go to work the next morning. We were always very pleased with her creative and imaginative way to make ordinary tasks so special. The children were constantly learning around her, and they are much better off today because of this. Another wonderful thing about Anita is her flexibility. We constantly had different schedules for Anita each week. She accepted this nuance of our schedules and grew to be a constant in our lives. We appreciated her so much, and you will too!!”

“I would be happy to share my experiences over the past 3 years and 10 months with Anita Miles in my household! Anita started with my family in September 2004 when my second child was 3 months old and my first child, 3 ½ years old. I was most attracted to her calm disposition and her patience. She struck me as someone who is very considerate, respectful and kind – all very important qualities in someone that you bring into your family to care for your children. Despite her lack of prior experience in this field, she learned the basic responsibilities of caring for a newborn by modeling me, by following very explicit instructions and by asking questions. She didn’t become frustrated and she tried her best to understand the baby’s cues and to attend to his needs as quickly as possible. As the children grew and their needs evolved, she became engaged in their learning, in their activities and she became more comfortable in her role. She helped reinforce learning concepts from school and she started introducing my youngest child to letters, numbers, colors and counting. She would use various board books, a drawing easel, alphabet toys and even household items to reinforce his learning. She developed games to motivate them to brush their teeth, clean up toys and learn to share and be patient. She also played many games to keep them active and have fun. Certainly after almost 4 years, the kids were very comfortable with Anita as she was an important part of our household. This was a full time, live out position with a very flexible schedule. Anita’s primary responsibility was caring for the children, but she also helped warm meals and prepare easy meals (occasionally) for the children, do laundry for the family, light housecleaning every other week and a couple of other ad hoc household duties, none of which interfered with her activities with the children. It is important to note that we had a mutual agreement of flexibility in hours and days worked per week as my job schedule sometimes required late evenings and overnight travel. I believe we both appreciated the allowances we made for each other to accommodate our families’ schedules. For example, she was able to stay overnight on many nights and I was able to give her extra time off as necessary. This worked very well. Anita is a very kind, caring individual who has kept my children safe and happy in the secure, comfortable environment of their home. I would be happy to speak with you further about Anita. I know finding the perfect nanny for your family is a big undertaking and it is through a thorough analysis of each other’s needs and expectations that you can find the perfect match searching through many Nannies in Ridgewood. Please feel free to call if I can be of any help. Good luck!”

“Anita is a warm, loving, kind, sweet, compassionate woman who I trust with any child!”

“No task was ever too great or too small for Anita! She was responsible for a small group of 9-year-old girls from sunrise to sunset. A compassionate, intuitive, creative approach with the girls was key to her success as a counselor. She portrayed a great sensitivity for the needs of her young charges who were homesick. She improvised those movements with songs, fun games, or just resorted to speaking with them to divert their attention. Overall, Anita was firm but fair in her discipline of the girls when the need arose. She was also kind and maternal in her day-by-day interaction with them. The days were spent accompanying the girls of her cabin to various activities, meals, swimming, and horseback riding. All in all, she exhibited concern for their well-being. She would be an asset to any position involving the care of children!”

“Children are definitely drawn to Anita’s warm and caring personality! This quality makes her a natural childcare provider. She is known for her faithfulness and dependability. She is extremely trustworthy and a great asset to children!”

“Anita has impressed me as one who is intelligent, conscientious, patient, and loving. In essence, I can say that Anita would be an asset and positive influence among those she would be working for. Therefore, I refer her unconditionally to you and can be sure she will be one of the Nannies in Ridgewood you can present with pride!”

“Anita is very dedicated to her work of supervising the household and caring for the Risko children! The children love being with her because she is fun to be with, is always teaching them something new, and she likes to keep them happy and safe. She is like a 2nd mother to the children, and she shows them honesty and respect.”

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