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Virtual Entertainment: Is This Our New Normal?
Remember the days when screen time was a bad word? When we blamed social media for sucking away all of our time? When you were too old to know what TikTok was? If those don't feel like memories and you're still stickin' to your guns on all of the above, then I'd like...
The Importance of Sleep Routines in Our New Normal
Over the past few months, we've all had some element of our daily routine stripped away from us as a result of school closures, business closures, and stay-at-home orders. Incase this whirlwind of 2020 has fogged your memory... the current reality of being IN your...
Teaching Life Skills During COVID-19
During this “homeschooling season,” we've been given an opportunity to teach our kids more than just what can be found in textbooks. Do you remember taking home-ec classes back in the day? I remember it being one of the classes I looked forward to each week. We...
Keep the Distance When Dropping Your Kids with the Sitter
We’ve talked about how to “buddy up”, how to have “digital sits,” how physical distancing is important but in some cases physical distancing is not reality. Now we want to talk about “distance drop-offs!” We want to encourage those of you that need to swap sits, to...
Essential Workers: Buddy Up for Safer Sit Swapping
We all know that physical distancing during this time of crisis is the best option. We also know that there is a long list of essential workers during this time of crisis, including our nurses and doctors, mail carriers, truck drivers, government officials, grocery...
Request a Digital Sit on Komae!
You’ve seen technology constantly evolve in the classroom and in our homes. Sometimes it feels hard to keep up and most of the time it feels unnecessary and over the top. Heck, with the speed at which technology changes, our kids are often better at using it than we...
Sit Swapping During a Time of Social Distancing
To say that the buzz about COVID-19 is overwhelming would be an understatement. No matter which direction you turn, the voices are loud. The panic is loud. Heck, even the passiveness has somehow become loud. It feels like organizations are either saying too much or...
The Answer to Your Spring Break Childcare Plan
Spring break is around the corner and for working parents, these changes to our regular routine can come with a reasonable dose of stress. But what are we to do? Take the week off to be with your kids? Schedule a vacation? Attempt to work from home while they kids...
Komae Point Cards: When You Need a Little Extra Help from Your Friends
When friendships are at their healthiest, they're operating as a two way street. You lean on each other's shoulders. You both initiate phone calls, texts, and get togethers. The conversation is a 50/50 split of what's going on in each of your lives. There is a mutual...
Pass Along Kindness
Have you ever been the recipient of a random act of kindness? One of my favorite things is when I’ve been in a drive thru ordering my hot morning coffee to start the day off right and I get up to the window to find out that the car in front of me paid for my drink. If...
Komae Goes Global – Welcome Sitster!
One year ago, Komae was making plans to shut down. Our budget had been spent. Our founders were tired. And our traction wasn't quite what it needed to be in order to bridge the gap between the desert we had found ourselves in and the land of plenty that we knew was on...
What About ME?!
So much of our lives we equate doing the “right thing” to doing something for someone else, or we choose to do it because of the impact it will have on someone else. One may never stop to consider that sometimes the most important thing you can do, is to take care of...
A Letter from Erin Beck, Komae’s New Momma
When I got the news about Komae shutting down, I was in my parent’s farmhouse kitchen. I opened the email and everything went quiet around me, though no one had stopped moving, everyone was still carrying dishes and chasing baby around the table. It’s not what anyone...
New Beginnings : What’s Next for the Founders of Komae?
From Both of Us “I’m Audrey Wallace”“And I’m Amy Husted”“We are just two stay at home moms from Akron, OH with a mission to reinvent babysitting and change families’ lives.” That was how Amy and Audrey introduced themselves the first time they ever live-pitched the...
Wana + Komae : The Story Behind the Scenes
If you've been following Komae on social media, you probably heard in April that we were closing our doors. Many of you reached out with the KINDEST of messages, the BEST of wishes, and the SWEETEST of stories about how Komae impacted your life. For that, we are...