{"id":3488,"date":"2021-05-19T21:52:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s37407.p1377.sites.pressdns.com\/resources\/real-story-spotlight-i-like-to-make-sure-th\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T21:52:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:52:57","slug":"real-story-spotlight-i-like-to-make-sure-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/real-story-spotlight-i-like-to-make-sure-th\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Story Spotlight: How Babysitting Helped Her Discover Her Dream Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Columbus, OH – “I have a lot of experience with childcare. I have been babysitting since I was 13 for kids ranging from 3 months to 13 years. I volunteer at a church where I babysit, teach classes, and help run other activities for the children. I also work at a sports camp over the summer and run girls’ circles during the school year.  <\/p>

I love working with children. When I babysit, I’m really hands-on and interactive. I like to make sure that the kids are not just safe and cared for, but also learning through the games and activities we do together. <\/p>

Right now I’m in grad school to be a school guidance counselor. Education is so important but now kids come into school with so many different things going on at home that keep them from succeeding academically. I want to help and counsel kids, especially at the elementary school level.” <\/p>

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Columbus, OH – “I have a lot of experience with childcare. I have been babysitting since I was 13 for kids ranging from 3 months to 13 years. I volunteer at a church where I babysit, teach classes, and help run other activities for the children. I also work at a sports camp over the summer Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":975,"featured_media":19843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"enable_toc":false,"care_reviewed_by":0,"care_post_updated_flag":false,"care_updated_date":"","last_update":"2021-05-19","view_count":3270,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"member-type":[4],"vertical":[6,17,16],"platform":[2],"class_list":["post-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","member-type-all","vertical-children","vertical-child-care-advice","vertical-child-care-options","platform-resources"],"acf":[],"created":"2017-05-25","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"member-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-type?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"platform","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/platform?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}