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Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon

Stephanie Kiser
Stephanie Kiser is a retired nanny that lives in New York City. She grew up in North Providence, Rhode Island before she moved to Boston to attend Emerson College, where she studied Writing for Film & Television. Stephanie worked for 7 years as a nanny to some of Manhattan’s wealthiest families before she pivoted careers.

She works for Madhive, the NYC based ad-tech company. She lives in Astoria with Burger Clinton, her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.

When she began nannying, she had never spent more than just a couple of hours with children. However she actually got paid more than qualified career nannies from other countries.

The highest salary that she got paid as a nanny was $110,000 plus a bonus at Christmas. Another family paid her $100,000 a year plus medical.

Often times the other mothers would see Stephanie as a bit of a friend. They would talk to her about what she was wearing or what shows she was watching, whereas some of the other nannies would not get this kind of treatement.

Stephanie had read “The Nanny Diaries” when she first started her job. It certainly hit home at the time, however she did feel like it was a bit of a satire. She did not want to villainize the poor or the rich since she has people she loves on both sides.

The intention of her memoir, called “Wanted: Toddler’s Personal Assistant”, was to make a social commentary. It was her hope that she could bridge the understanding just a bit between the two sides since there is this thought that poor people just are not working hard enough and rich people are just inherently bad.

She wasn’t miserable being a nanny, but it just was not the job that she ever wanted. She felt like she was trapped, that there was nothing else that she could possibly do, which did get worse as time went on.

All of her friends were growing in these jobs and were getting much more experience in their resume, but Stephanie wasn’t. She was always stationary in her job. It was not that good of a feeling like there is nothing else she could really do.

She was able to make more than she did nannying in her following job, where she became a senior assistant. But those first few years after nannying were tough financially, since she was making that shift.

Stephanie would not have been happy had she just done the nannying, but she also could not have survived on only writing. However by doing them both in parallel, things turned out exactly how they were supposed to for her.

Nannying was so important for her because not only was she able to make enough money to live, but it also gave her the chance to get a foundation. She had nothing when she first moved to New York. She has a fully furnished apartment, the things that you need to be a fully functional adult. She has a dog and is able to take care of him, and has her own car. These are the things that she could not have done without becoming a nanny.

“Wanted: Toddler’s Personal Assistant” is a non-fiction book that was released in 2024. Their nannies see all of it. What are the lives of America’s richest families actually like?

Stephanie Kiser moves to New York City after finishing college in order to pursue a career in writing, she soon learns that her entry-level salary is not going to cover the high cost of living, never mind that crushing student loan debt. However there is an in-demand job which pays more than enough to allow her to remain in the city: nannying for the 1%. Stephanie, desperate to escape from the poverty of her own childhood, falls into a job which hijacks her life for the following seven years: a glorified personal assistant to toddlers on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Nannying, at first, seems to be the perfect solution, with the high pay covering her bills, and she is surprised at just how attached she becomes to the kids that she takes care of, even while she gasps over Prada baby onesies and preschools which cost even more than her college tuition. However the grueling 12 hour days leave her very little time to date, see her friends, or pursue any creative projects which may lead to a far more prestigious career. The allure of this seemingly glamorous job starts to dull while Stephanie comes to comprehend more about what actually happens behind the closed doors of million dollar Park Avenue apartments, and this money does not guarantee happiness. She will soon have to decide whether or not to stay with these kids that she has grown to love, or if there is something that is better out there just outside of her reach.

“Wanted: Toddler’s Personal Assistant” is alternately funny and poignant, a portrait of a generation of Americans that is struggling to find work that they love balanced against the headwinds of an economy stacked against anybody attempting to work their way up from the bottom and global uncertainty. It is a provocative tale of caregiving, class, family, and friends, and this juicy and voyeuristic peek behind the curtain of obscene wealth and the opportunity and privilege which comes with it.

In an unputdownable memoir, Stephanie Kiser has chronicled her journey from newbie nanny to beloved caregiver, and the painful choice to eventually say farewell to the kids she grew to love.

This is an emotionally honest memoir about nannying for New York’s elite and is a thoughtful meditation on the way that social class separates our realities, even amid the universality of maturation and motherhood.

Wit and humor pervade every single page of this page turner, allowing a bit of lightness to peek through her pertinent employment experiences.

Vulnerable, raw, and reminiscent of many young women that chase the NYC dream, and Stephanie provides a peek into her experiences navigating the foreign world of east coast elitists as they search for an authentic sense of self. It is the totally unapologetic coming of age tale that you never knew that you needed.

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