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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will you be paying extra for this extra service? Or are you just doing job creep with no pay? [/quote]

Stop, please.  This is not “job creep”.  This is the ever changing life of a nanny who encourages growth and learning in the charges.  It’s like thinking you deserve more money when the child starts walking or drops a nap.  It’s not a service to teach your charges.

-signed, a nanny[/quote]

Of course it is job creep as no nanny is hired to teach school.  Children go to pre schools, elementary school are taught by qualified and licensed teachers.  This is not an ever evevolving part of her job.  [/quote]

?  I am a nanny and was hired precisely to teach and care for my charges.  You must be confusing nanny with babysitter, PP.  All nannies are teachers. [/quote]

You were not hired to teach school.  If you had been hired for this then they would not be enrolled in public or private school.
 
Even if you have a degree you are not knowledgeable in all subjects taught in school curriculum--, mathematics (algebra, trig, geometry, etc.); History (World or American); English both grammar and literature and other subjects. Taking a walk is not the same as physical education! This is why teachers have specific subjects they are hired to teach.

You do not have to be licensed by the state to be a nanny whereas a teacher does have to be licensed.  Teaching a child how to make a turkey by tracing their fingers does not constitute teaching![/quote]

What a bizarre rant.  It may be shocking to you but many nannies do view their role as being an educator.  I have spent a lot of time studying, reading about and attending lectures on the topic of early childhood education.  I am a member of NAEYC as well as my state chapter and attend conferences and lectures as often as I can.  I tend towards a Reggio approach and Piaget is the historic child development expert that most resonates with me.  I have at least as much education as most preschool teachers.  I lack the degree to teach elementary but I am certainly educated enough in my own way to homeschool successfully.

No child young enough to need a nanny has individual subject classes in a formal school setting.  They have a primary teacher who teaches English, Science, history/social studies, and math through the end of elementary school.  There are many nannies with the same degree as a typical elementary schoolteacher and many more like myself who lack the degree but have enough experience and knowledge to do the job well.

My current charges are nearly 5yo twins.  They can read beginners books and can write all their letters well enough to do a daily journal using invented spelling.  They can add and subtract numbers under 10 easily and are working on numbers up to 20 and they can count to 100.  We are doing a science unit on plants and gardening and are mostly talking about the civil rights movement as our history lesson since that is where their interests lie right now.

It would never occur to me to ask for my base rate to be raised because I am teaching my charges.  What is the alternative?  Just keeping them alive?  That’s a babysitter as a previous poster said.  [/quote]

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