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[quote=Anonymous]OP, try White House nannies if you are looking for that.  You can also try posting in the local colleges, like AU.  This used to be easier to find when the job market was really lousy (especially for people with teaching degrees -- now my understanding is that it's pretty easy to find a good position if you have a teaching degree or similar).

However, if you want my unsolicited opinion, I'm not sure this is worth the premium.  I went to Ivy League schools and my kids are in gifted programs now.  We used the standard nannies that had a mix of educational backgrounds, ranging from not much to some college here or college abroad.  For young children, what matters most is a loving supportive person who is going to expose them to different experiences and do things like sing to them and take them to the park to play.  The research on early childhood brain development backs this up.  If you need someone to help them with their homework after 4th grade or so, then yes a college degree will help (particularly if the person took math).

I do think that people without nanny experience might not get what a grind it is.  Our nanny that was the least successful -- lasted two weeks -- was a professional from a field that dealt with children.  She found the day to day grind of dealing with kids all day long and arbitrating their silly disputes and dealing with their often irrational responses to life, to be not at all what she had envisioned.  [/quote]

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