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Erika Slade Owner of E-Nanny Ericka Slade is the owner of E-Nanny, a com-
pany that provides nanny services to the Tulsa community for the last 5 years. Erika started out as a nanny herself 17 years ago. At first, she would take her oldest child to work with her but by the time her second child arrived she was nannying to children that were “special cases” and her child started picking up some habits that were not acceptable for her own family so she began searching for a nanny for herself. As a nanny herself, she had no resources at the time to recommend other nannies to parents that were looking. When Erika began interviewing nannies for her own children she became aware of the “level of crazy” that was out there for parents to have to get through to find the right nanny. She recalled a particular interview where a nanny was applying for the position and actually ran to the bathroom gagging and locked herself in the bathroom for 20 minutes, when Erika’s infant child spit up. She asked herself, “Why would someone be applying for a position with infant children and not be able to handle spit up, which all children do?” “I began thinking about the processes to find nannies that would applicable skill sets to meet the needs of families, the company didn’t begin then, but collecting the information did. Ericka began her process by hiring and training nannies for her own children, then clients would request her nanny and she would start all over again training another nanny for her children and the business just took off from there.
Tulsa Aristocrats Magazine August 2017
TA: How do you train a nanny at E- Nanny? Erika: We find where skill sets begin with an applicant and then we fill in the gaps so we provide a well-rounded nanny. Every nanny is placed in age appropriate homes for her skill set. Each nanny needs to know about the age they are nannying, so that they become assets for the families they serve, thus making them different than a babysitter. TA: How many nanny’s does E-Nanny have currently? Erika: We have grown from 68 nannies last year to 103 nannies in the Tulsa metro area this year where we serve over 350 families. We are growing organically, not really advertising a lot. We have full and part time nanny’s, household managers and governesses that teach in-home and based on curriculum determined by parents.