What does it mean to be a professional nanny?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not about salary

You dont need classes or a degree to take care of children. Moms (and dads) all over the world do it and many of them do it very well with no prior experience or training. Yes, when you hire someone you should consider whether they have the personality and knowledge to do the work, but you certainly dont need a degree to be a nanny. I have my degree in early childhood education and learned absolutely nothing about caring for a baby, though I can tell you all about preschool ideologies.

Its great to hire someone with experience taking care of kids, but truthfully, you need to be loving, caring, kind, patient, and level-headed to care for children. Keep kids safe, loved, and reasonably stimulated and none of that is taught in any school.

You must not have gone to a very good college if all you learned from your ECD degree is "preschool ideologies". I have over twenty credits in ECD (but graduate school) and have learned an enormous amount about teaching and encouraging language and learning skills through play in my graduate program.

Clearly, you need your above listed qualities to be a good nanny but an education is also extremely important especially for very bright infants and toddlers.

[Anonymous]

I agree that experience is a mayor factor To be a great Nanny, but pairing education with experience is ideal. Parents who are educated understand that knowledge is power. An experience nanny is way more proactive in providing quality childcare than a child provider who are not Educated. An experience nanny embrace a heart of a teacher, mother instinct, team player, in tune with children temper, professional, loving and outgoing person.

Attached a Nanny with education and many years of experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not about salary

You dont need classes or a degree to take care of children. Moms (and dads) all over the world do it and many of them do it very well with no prior experience or training. Yes, when you hire someone you should consider whether they have the personality and knowledge to do the work, but you certainly dont need a degree to be a nanny. I have my degree in early childhood education and learned absolutely nothing about caring for a baby, though I can tell you all about preschool ideologies.

Its great to hire someone with experience taking care of kids, but truthfully, you need to be loving, caring, kind, patient, and level-headed to care for children. Keep kids safe, loved, and reasonably stimulated and none of that is taught in any school.

MB here and yes, of course, you need the attributes listed above but I also want a college degree. It doesn't have to be in education or early childhood development but it is important to me to have my kids care-giver and first teacher to be educated.

[Anonymous]

Another MB here and I want a college degree. Our nanny has a masters degree in one of the liberal arts and loves being a nanny. She is imaginative, loves to read and is not addicted to her phone. No nonsense or drama. Her vocabulary and grammar alone are a plus to my kids' education.

BTW "professional" actually doesn't mean anything more than being paid for a job or service (eg professional boxer or professional actor) and it is more than a hobby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another MB here and I want a college degree. Our nanny has a masters degree in one of the liberal arts and loves being a nanny. She is imaginative, loves to read and is not addicted to her phone. No nonsense or drama. Her vocabulary and grammar alone are a plus to my kids' education.

BTW "professional" actually doesn't mean anything more than being paid for a job or service (eg professional boxer or professional actor) and it is more than a hobby.

I noticed that "professional" means having standards that your adhere to.
That means you can't do whatever just because someone told you to, even though you know it's wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MB here. I had a bright young woman interview with me for a nanny job. During the interview, she kept asking "What are you looking for?"

It is really hard to say what exactly makes a professional nanny. If I say "this," then a nanny might be TOO "this" which is not what I meant. Also, being "this" does not mean that it does not mean it does not include something else but also is important, if omitted completely. So, it is hard to say in concrete terms.

Sure, love and attention and care is the most important. But you could be the most loving and attentive nanny in the world but if the MB comes up to a big dump at the end of the day (and she didn't leave it that way in the morning) and she has to spend an hour cleaning up instead of spending time with her kids every night she wants to do, you are not meeting the needs.

You could be the cleanest nanny in the world and and the most loving nanny but by the time the kid enters preschool and the kid does not know the ABCs you have failed as a nanny.

You could be the safest driver but doesn't know how to let MB know how safe you are, and she worries about you driving all day while working, it means you lack communication skills as a nanny and a decent communication skill is required as a professional nanny.

Then there are those skills for knowing how to soothe an infant, getting them to take a bottle. No class is going to teach you that. A professional nanny going into an infant caretaker position is expected to know these things.

What makes a good mother? What makes a good teacher? What makes a good manager? What makes a good nanny? There is no one good answer.

The bright young woman who interviewed with me did not get the job. It was just a gut feeling but she came off as being a bit immature, seeking 1 right answer to this question "what does the MB want?"

Well, given that nannies can be fired without notice for not being what MB wants... I ask it as well, but not more than once or twice.

[Anonymous]

If I was to go back in time I would have went to college, worked a part-time childcare job and get a degree. I do not think it is about what you did or did not learn in school but that you learned to solve problems. I do have 20+ years of nanny experience and I have benefited from it but I have allot of respect for those that went to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MB here. I had a bright young woman interview with me for a nanny job. During the interview, she kept asking "What are you looking for?"

It is really hard to say what exactly makes a professional nanny. If I say "this," then a nanny might be TOO "this" which is not what I meant. Also, being "this" does not mean that it does not mean it does not include something else but also is important, if omitted completely. So, it is hard to say in concrete terms.

Sure, love and attention and care is the most important. But you could be the most loving and attentive nanny in the world but if the MB comes up to a big dump at the end of the day (and she didn't leave it that way in the morning) and she has to spend an hour cleaning up instead of spending time with her kids every night she wants to do, you are not meeting the needs.

You could be the cleanest nanny in the world and and the most loving nanny but by the time the kid enters preschool and the kid does not know the ABCs you have failed as a nanny.

You could be the safest driver but doesn't know how to let MB know how safe you are, and she worries about you driving all day while working, it means you lack communication skills as a nanny and a decent communication skill is required as a professional nanny.

Then there are those skills for knowing how to soothe an infant, getting them to take a bottle. No class is going to teach you that. A professional nanny going into an infant caretaker position is expected to know these things.

What makes a good mother? What makes a good teacher? What makes a good manager? What makes a good nanny? There is no one good answer.

The bright young woman who interviewed with me did not get the job. It was just a gut feeling but she came off as being a bit immature, seeking 1 right answer to this question "what does the MB want?"

I agree with majority of this expect the ABC part. Correction. If a child enters school without knowing their abcs, you have failed as a parent, too. This is not solely your nanny responsibility.

[Anonymous]

Professionals have a license to practice their trade: teacher doctor, enegineer, lawyer, nurses, message therapist, estheticians. beautician. Nannies. However, have no certificate to ply their trade. No institution of higher learning confers a degree in Nannying. Anyone can be a nannyand zero training is required.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Professionals have a license to practice their trade: teacher doctor, enegineer, lawyer, nurses, message therapist, estheticians. beautician. Nannies. However, have no certificate to ply their trade. No institution of higher learning confers a degree in Nannying. Anyone can be a nannyand zero training is required.

That's exactly what stupid people think, that anyone can be a nanny. Then they're shocked when things go terribly wrong. Too bad for them and their child. So unfortunate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Professionals have a license to practice their trade: teacher doctor, enegineer, lawyer, nurses, message therapist, estheticians. beautician. Nannies. However, have no certificate to ply their trade. No institution of higher learning confers a degree in Nannying. Anyone can be a nannyand zero training is required.

So there is a college degree to become a "professional golfer" or "professional model"?

You have been posting this same nonsense over and over again since I have been reading this forum and you have always been shot down. Why continue? You just embarrass yourself.

[Anonymous]

I don't know what "professional nanny" means beyond being paid to care for someone's children but I wanted (and got) a college educated nanny as well. It was important to DH and me. We have a brilliant, loving, nurturing and reliable nanny who is older and chose to be a nanny although she obviously had many other options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Professionals have a license to practice their trade: teacher doctor, enegineer, lawyer, nurses, message therapist, estheticians. beautician. Nannies. However, have no certificate to ply their trade. No institution of higher learning confers a degree in Nannying. Anyone can be a nannyand zero training is required.

So there is a college degree to become a "professional golfer" or "professional model"?

You have been posting this same nonsense over and over again since I have been reading this forum and you have always been shot down. Why continue? You just embarrass yourself.

As was posted before people say professional golfer, etc. because golfing and modeling (beauty pageants), etc. are hobbies that the person has segwayed into a job. No one nannies as a hobby, nanny is always a "job" so we already know you are getting paid to be a nanny (unlike when someone says they are going to play golf, your first thought is that it is unpaid and for fun) so you aren't a professional, you are just a worker. Just like any other job no one, that isn't trying to argue semantics, would prefix with "professional" such as Target cashier or McDonalds cook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Professionals have a license to practice their trade: teacher doctor, enegineer, lawyer, nurses, message therapist, estheticians. beautician. Nannies. However, have no certificate to ply their trade. No institution of higher learning confers a degree in Nannying. Anyone can be a nannyand zero training is required.

So there is a college degree to become a "professional golfer" or "professional model"?

You have been posting this same nonsense over and over again since I have been reading this forum and you have always been shot down. Why continue? You just embarrass yourself.

As was posted before people say professional golfer, etc. because golfing and modeling (beauty pageants), etc. are hobbies that the person has segwayed into a job. No one nannies as a hobby, nanny is always a "job" so we already know you are getting paid to be a nanny (unlike when someone says they are going to play golf, your first thought is that it is unpaid and for fun) so you aren't a professional, you are just a worker. Just like any other job no one, that isn't trying to argue semantics, would prefix with "professional" such as Target cashier or McDonalds cook.

Look up the word "professional", PP - and then put your argument to rest forever. Not PP but I have read your same crap several times on this forum. Who the F cares? Get over yourself. Being a nanny is a PROFESSION. One who works in a profession is a professional. END OF DISCUSSION.

[Anonymous]

Op, you stated clearly " that u dint learn any thing in Child Development Classes" and you should not preach about caring for children because U simple Don't get it. Since I'm a professional nanny and passionate about giving children the best emotional support throughout compassion, nurture and opportunities for them to strive, here is a list of a Not professional Nanny.
1 some one who can not read children Cues , and not serve children need such as nutrition, sleeping and social emotional needs.
2 some one who see a child as a broken individual that need to be fix, children are born with everything that is needed to learn and be productive, they just need some one whose know how to guide them.
3 some one who can't fallow parents instructions, families is considered to be the Ecosystem of a child and every thing about a child should be discussed with their parents.

Now go away Troll, u don't understand about family, caregiver and children. ADIOS BUY BUY CHOW SAYONARA ASTA LUEGO