American in London looking for Babysitting Work
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I have worked with children in a teaching, babysitting, or childcare setting for 16 years. As a teen, I babysat every weekend and also as a nanny/childminder every summer for four young girls. I would cook, clean, take them swimming, and engage in a range of creative games that would entertain a 1-year-old and ten-year-old. In New York I was a live-in nanny for a child in Queens. I took her to and picked her up from school, made her meals, assisted with her homework, and took her to her football (soccer) practice and piano lessons. In Chicago I started working as a part-time nanny a few days a week, but when the pandemic hit I started full-time. I did research and built a curriculum so she would learn and stay stimulated whilst isolated with me. We did many different sensory activities, I taught her to read, we went to art classes and the library, and did a lot of cooking and baking together.
I am certified in CPR and newborn care, additionally having taken many child education courses. I have been babysitting for the past two years when I moved to Edinburgh to earn my MA degree; I babysat outside of classes 3-4 days a week. I have since moved to London and am looking for evening or weekend work.
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