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Parents group seeks
input from families
that have nannies
BY COLIN MIXSON
The head mom at Park Slope’s
preeminent parents group is
looking to wrangle a few hundred
Kings County parents
to participate in a biennial
nanny survey, which empowers
Brooklyn families with the
knowledge to net quality childcare
at the right price.
“People are more confi dent
in the decisions they make because
of the information that
Park Slope Parents provides,”
said Dr. Susan Fox, founder
of the eponymous Park Slope
information exchange group,
which boasts more than 6,500
members. “It’s Brooklyn’s
most comprehensive survey of
nanny pay standards.”
Fox has leveraged her doctorate
in Communications
and Social Science Research
to query hundreds of Kings
County nanny employers
through her online survey
since 2008, and her questionnaires
have helped fi rst-time
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BY COLIN MIXSON
He’s making a C. diff-erence.
A Park Slope man took
his crusade against a deadly
infection that annually kills
tens of thousands of Americans
to Washington, D.C., on
April 9, where he and more
than two dozen other advocates
lobbied legislators to
pass new laws in the hope of
saving lives.
Christian Lillis became a
leading fi gure in the fi ght to
spread awareness of the bacterium
known as C. diff after
his mother fell ill with the
infection following a routine
dentist’s visit, and within
days perished due to fatal
complications caused by the
ill-understood germ.
“It was horrifi c,” said Lillis.
“From the time that we
took her to the hospital until
she was gone was probably 36
hours.”
C. diff — a bacterium that
can be ironically activated by
anti-biotic — affl icts about
a half million people every
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