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When you are looking around the room to find the expert, and you suddenly have the sinking realization that it is, in fact, you. What is this feeling and how do you handle it while maintaining your professionalism? This episode will quench your knowledge thirst on this very subject.

NannyCast 45: Holiday Bonus Gifts // download or play episode // subscribe to NannyCast // Show Notes and Resources:Gay Wise of Wise Financial (WF001) // https://youtu.be/gJ_IRWzQ3iwSamantha F (EHow001) // https://youtu.be/241mkUR0OukHR Over Coffee (HR360) // https://youtu.be/oKyaLYMc5FoAlex S (CPA001) // https://youtu.be/-cV6o_Te6METhe Jill on Money Podcast (DGT) // https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/jill-on-money-with/what-to-do-with-bonus-fDn39_pYyBv/NannyCast 22: Employee (mis) Classification // https://nannycast.com/post/184389227001/nannycast-22-employee-mis-classification-am-iIRS Publication 525 // https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-publication-525Facebook Post Soliciting Questions // https://www.facebook.com/NannyCast/posts/5027126464004940 Transcript: (CPA001 cold open) If this sounds like you, first, happy holidays. Wait, but NannyCast episodes are evergreen. How did we know that you are listening to this around the holidays? Because of the topic of course! Today’s episode is all about that holiday bonus … or is it a gift? As with so many of our financially related episodes, this one is only truly applicable to nannies working in the United States of America. If you are working in a different country, you are going to have to ask your tax professional about how your country approaches additional compensation at the holiday season and so we’ll see you in the next episode. For the rest of us, let’s proceed on! For that cold open you heard … (CPA001 introduction of self) Also on this episode are going to be the voices of … (WF001 introduction of self) (Ehow introduction of self) (HR360 introduction of self) (DGT introduction of self) … as well as computer-voiced questions sent in by our listeners. To find out about our open calls for questions, you will need to follow our Facebook page over at Facebook dot com slash NannyCast and make sure not just to like the page but to set it to show posts in your feed. We don’t post often, less than once every two months, but when we do it is always something to pay attention to. (Question 1 by Nanny A) Unfortunately not. If you remember back to Episode 22 on Employee (mis) Classification, we learned that despite what we want to tell ourselves, the IRS usually has some pretty stringent rules about things. Well, the same applies here too. By the way, if you haven’t heard Episode 22, there will be a link to that in our show notes over at NannyCast dot com or hopefully appearing in the app that you use to listen to podcasts; give it listen. According to the US Department of Labor and the IRS, whose sources are cited in the show notes, any payment made in addition to the employee’s regular earnings is a bonus. (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/56c-bonuses) (HR360 clip introducing bonuses.) And further … (HR360 clip about bonuses being a gift) … employee bonuses are always taxable to employees as an employee benefit, no matter how or when they are paid. (https://www.thebalancesmb.com/giving-employee-bonuses-know-the-tax-implications-397631) (bonuses have tax implications for the giver and receiver @ HR360) (bonuses are taxed no differently than regular salary @ CPA001) (nowhere in IRS codes that say bonuses are cheaper tax or tax free @ CPA001) (uncle sam doesn’t care whether your income was a bonus or a base salary @ CPA001) “If you are paid your holiday bonus in a separate check from your regular pay, your employers should be withholding a flat 22% .” (https://www.thebalancesmb.com/giving-employee-bonuses-know-the-tax-implications-397631) (Question 2 by Nanny N) Sad news Nanny N. This one is going to also be taxed even though it isn’t cash. (IRS Publication 525 rules on all gifts from employers whether they are taxable or not @ EHow001) (why the IRS cares @ EHow001) Did you hear her just mention gift certificates? Yeah. That’s in the IRS’s Publication 525 which we will link to in the show notes of this episode. (so many things about the tax code don’t mak

NannyCast 44: Childcare in the Gig App Economy // download or play episode // subscribe to NannyCast // Time Limited Information: The Platform Workers’ Council is currently reaching out to all nannies, babysitters, maids, and home health care workers to figure out how platforms and apps can be more fair to those using them to provide services. If you are a listener to NannyCast and identify with any of those job titles, please take the survey. Show Notes and Resources:Platform Workers’ Council Survey // https://bit.ly/3w4BEK8NannyCast Bonus Episode // https://anchor.fm/nannycast/episodes/Why-Babysitting-Isnt-Ready-for-the-Gig-App-Economy-e8hbhdSubscribe to the NannyCast Bonus Feed // https://anchor.fm/nannycast/ or https://anchor.fm/s/929706c/podcast/rss Episode Transcript: We here at NannyCast try to perpetually have evergreen episodes, but today we have some timely information we need to share with you. The Platform Workers’ Council is currently reaching out to all nannies, babysitters, maids, and home health care workers to figure out how platforms and apps can be more fair to those using them to provide services. If you are a listener to NannyCast and identify with any of those job titles, please take the survey by visiting NannyCast dot com slash App Survey which is all one word, or by visiting the episode show notes for this episode which should be available in your podcatching application. Once again, that’s NannyCast dot com slash App Survey. If the survey has already concluded by the time you find your way to this episode, you should listen on! We have some evergreen content for you still. In November of 2019 we released our most popular short little bonus episode called “Why babysitting isn’t ready for the gig app economy,” filled with warnings about how apps are currently constructed and dangers we face as service workers. We are reproducing that episode here in its entirety because it has become timely to step out of the shadows of being a bonus episode and needs to become a full episode. Please listen on. (stinger)

Happy holidays. Wait, but NannyCast episodes are evergreen. How did we know that you are listening to this around the holidays? Because of the topic of course! Today’s episode is all about that holiday bonus … or is it a gift?

https://href.li/?https://fb.watch/9rAk591wol/ NannyCast 43: Your Personality Already Chose Your Parenting Style // download episode // subscribe to NannyCast // Time Limited Information: The NannyCast team do this as a volunteer labor of love for all of you wishing to level up your nannying HR skills. Our media host, Archive.org, chosen because it is a nonprofit and donation supported, is having an end of year funding drive. If you like NannyCast and want the evergreen episodes to stick around forever, please consider making a donation to Archive.org’s funding campaign. Even $1 can help keep so many digital resources available in perpetuity of which NannyCast is just one. DONATE HERE. Show Notes and Resources:Video // https://fb.watch/9rAk591wol/Mattias J Barker Podcast // https://pca.st/cg3h97w6 Episode Transcript: I hope this podcast finds you well. Today is another non-standard signal boost for a very good bit of information originally delivered by video. It is especially useful for Junior Nannies, which means nannies in their first five years of nannying or their first five placements, whichever comes last, and for those who are struggling to find their parenting niche and style. This video is about how one’s personality predisposes one to a particular parenting style and comes from a practicing psychotherapist named Mattias J Barker. NannyCast, dedicated to human resources topics, choose to provide this audio snippet because good placements are so important and one of the key components of a good placement is contstancy of care which means the parenting styles of the parents are the same as the parenting style of the nanny. When I was first starting out, I applied to any job that was not too far and paid what I wanted to be paid and had ages I felt comfortable with, figuring that I could simply perform the parent’s parenting style. I learned the hard way that I could not. It took me a decade to learn my predisposed parenting style when I could simply have watched or listened to a fourteen minute video. Please accept this shortcut. Life is too short to learn every lesson the hard way. If you are a nanny who is exhausted from daily performance of a parenting style that doesn’t come naturally to you, listen on. Or, even better, if you can spare some eyeballs for a fourteen minute – yes fourteen minute! – Facebook video, stop this episode and watch the Facebook video in its entirety; the eye contact by Mattias Barker does add something to his audio. You can find the video linked from the show notes for this episode or by going to nannycast dot com slash parenting personality. If you are driving or watching your charges or something else that requires your eyeballs, you’re still going to learn a lot from Mattias Barker via the audio so keep listening on. If you already know what your predisposed parenting style is, we’ll see you in the next episode. For the rest of us, myself included, let’s learn! (transition to video)

NannyCast 42: Growth Mindset // download episode // subscribe to NannyCast // Show Notes and Resources:Video // https://youtu.be/Yl9TVbAal5sGrowth Mindset Text Explanation // https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/growth-mindset Episode Transcript: Today’s episode is going to be nonstandard. Today we are going to air, in its entirety, the audio from a YouTube video on growth mindset. The term “growth mindset” is primarily attributed to psychologist Carol Dweck, but we all know that nothing in academia happens in isolation so I’m sure there are other unsung heroes out there connected with the idea. Growth mindset is the belief that a person’s capacities and talents can be improved over time. Now why would NannyCast, dedicated to human resources topics, be focusing on this term? Because it is one of the ways we can approach the world and our jobs to stop trying to bail – or worse self-sabotage – just because we make early mistakes in learning a new family. The opposite of a growth mindset is a “fixed mindset” which suggests to us that if our instincts weren’t right to handle a situation that any correction is simply showing that our relationship to our employers is a bad fit and that any effort we might put forth to learn their preferences or procedures is inauthentic and unsustainable. This may be true some of the time, but the majority of the time it is not. If you are a nanny who recognizes that urge to run, listen on. Or, even better, if you can spare some eyeballs for a ten minute – yes ten minute! – YouTube video, stop this episode and watch the YouTube video in its entirety; the visuals by RSA do add something to Carol Dweck’s audio. You can find the video linked from the show notes for this episode or by going to nannycast dot com slash growth mindset. If you are driving or watching your charges or something else that requires your eyeballs, you’re still going to learn a lot from Carol Dweck via the audio so keep listening on. If you already know what a growth mindset is or already have one, we’ll see you in the next episode. For the rest of us, myself included, let’s learn! (transition to video)

The Platform Workers’ Council is currently reaching out to all nannies, babysitters, maids, and home health care workers to figure out how platforms and apps can be more fair to those using them to provide services. If the survey has already concluded by the time you find your way to this episode, you should listen on! We have some evergreen content for you still.

Usually at this time, we air a legacy NannyCast episode, but today we are bringing you the history of Canadian nannies done by the CBC.

Good placements are so important and one of the key components of a good placement is constancy of care which means the parenting styles of the parents are the same as the parenting style of the nanny.

Today’s episode is going to be nonstandard. Today we are going to air, in its entirety, the audio from a YouTube video on growth mindset. The term “growth mindset” is primarily attributed to psychologist Carol Dweck, but we all know that nothing in academia happens in isolation so I’m sure there are other unsung heroes out there connected with the idea. Growth mindset is the belief that a person’s capacities and talents can be improved over time.