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May 30, 2008 by Angela Shupe | 0 Comments

Spokane Journal of Business:

Sarah Bishop named her business, Moxie Nannies Inc., after the type of person she thinks makes a good nanny: energetic, determined, and knowledgeable.

Experienced as both a nanny and a parent, Bishop says she knows how hard it is for parents to find a person who’s qualified to come into their home and care for their children, and how beneficial a good match between a nanny and a family can be for children. When she switched from working in a day-care setting to providing care for a set of twins as a nanny, Bishop says she felt it was an ideal situation for her as a caregiver and for the children in her care.

“The kids are healthier and more active when someone’s playing with them,” she says.

During the six years Bishop worked as a nanny for those twins and subsequently for another family, she heard repeatedly the plight of parents who had to place newspaper ads and interview dozens of strangers at their homes to try to find suitable full-time caregivers.

“Throughout that time, I would run into people who would ask me where they could find nannies,” Bishop says. She was sympathetic, but at a loss for what to tell them, she says.

She says she realized how much legwork it takes to check out potential nannies, and recognized a need for a screening agency to help parents find caregivers they could trust with their children.

After a year of research, Bishop formed her nanny-placement company in Coeur d’Alene last spring, and so far has placed eight nannies in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene, with a list of 12 screened nannies currently available for placement.

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