title: The L.A. Nanny Book: A Book for Nannies and Parents
author:  Larissa Neilson 
description: Larissa Neilson was born and raised in Lima Peru. Having worked in Lima as a corporate attorney for a few years, she moved to Los Angeles in 2000 where she began her career in childcare as a private caretaker. After she learned about the Educaring Approach, she decided to start her new career as an Early Childhood Educator. In 2006, she began her formal education at the R.I.E. Center in Los Angeles having completed: R.I.E. Foundations: Theory and Observation, R.I.E. Practicum and R.I.E. Intern: Supervised Teaching and Evaluation (Part I) Today she trains nanny candidates and gives private lessons to brand new families with their first-born babies. She lives at her home in Los Angeles with her teenage daughter Esther.
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  **ACKNOWLEDGMENTS**
  
    
    
  
  When I started writing the Watersong series, my grandma was alive. When I
  finished the final book in the series, she was not. She’d been battling
  Alzheimer’s for years, so she never read any of my books, although she’d read
  hundreds of my short stories and poems. And she’d saved everything I’d ever
  written—from Christmas cards to high school assignments. If Nanny had ever
  come across it, she saved it.
  
  It would be impossible for me not to acknowledge the massive impact she had on
  me and my writing. Every word I’ve ever wri