Part-Time Child Care Provider Available in Pensacola, FL: Athena R.

$13/hr

4 years of paid experience

A little bit about me

Hi! I'm Athena, mother of 4 beautiful girls ages [phone number hidden]. I'm a Funkadellic mom who is always reliable, responsible, trustworthy, fun, Honest, loving, and Stern when I have to be. I'm a big believer that inorder for your children to be disciplined it's not thru punishment it's by Teaching them actual life lesson that will help them grow. I love doing crafts and building forts. I love roller blading with my children and going to the park and beach when weather permits. I'm great with the young ones and lil bitty ones and the I'm almost grown ones. Having patience when dealing with kids sometimes doesn't come easy but I have the patience to be able to deal 13 of them at one time so I think I can handle anything.

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Tue, Fri 8:30AM - 10:30PM

Part-time

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Age Groups

Infants

Toddlers

Preschoolers

Grade-schoolers

How often do you need a child care provider?

Full-Time Part-Time

Qualifications

Certifications

CPR

First Aid

Other

Special needs

Work Experience

4 years of experience caring for:

Preschoolers (4-9 years)

Grade-schoolers (10-12 years)

Infants (0-11 months)

Toddlers (1-3 years)

More About Me

Relevant experience where I also cared for children were...

So I have cared for children since I was child myself helping my mama raise my siblings. Then I had my own four beautiful children, while helping my three sisters raise their eight other children. I'm definitely prepared for anything and everything considering that when we all get together it's about 13 children under the age of 17 in one household fun and exciting all the time. I am also a certified medical assistant, I graduated from Sanford Brown college in Manhattan. I'm CPR certified. I also went to ICE culinary arts institute in Manhattan and graduated with a culinary art degree for being a sous chef, So cooking for the kiddos never gets boring. I love being a mom and I love being able to help others who need a hand. I know what it takes to be a great fit for any family considering the 13 different personalities I know how to deal with already.

Activities I enjoy doing with children...

Okay so hanging out with my kids is like one of the most fun things in my life! I'll start with indoor activities, building forts out of bed sheets a million different ways to do it, blank canvases tons of paint always fun, being able to do arts and crafts expressing yourself and how you image it to be is always something so great. Especially for the kiddos. I love baking with them always fun. You give them eight cookies to make they turn it into 12 different shapes. Let me not forget the outdoor activities. So where do I start: soccer, playing at the park, being at the beach in the Sun, we love doing cartwheels and flips and hanging upside down on the monkey bars, we roll a blade all the time , definitely love the races we have even though I lose most of the time 🤣 I can't run but I try. How could I forget the best one - having picnics and walking through the trails there's so many things you can do outdoors that's so great for them and I love doing it all for my daughters.

The most important part about being a nanny...

What matters to me the most about being a nanny is most definitely: A) helping the parents raise their young ones and guiding their child as they want me to, as they see fit. It's most important that you as the nanny have to remember you're the helping hand and you have to raise the children as the parent of the child wants them to be raised. Just because I let my children go in the backyard and play with dirt and make mud pies does not mean that the parent I'm helping watch their children for will feel the same most important part about being a nanny is respect for the parents and respect for the children. B) Being allowed to be a part of a little young one's mind and life and being able to show and Guide them in lessons on trusting others, respecting others, and most importantly respect for themselves, and teaching them new things is amazing and I'm grateful to be able to do that. As a parent my thing is if my kids says you're okay I'll think about you being okay they come first.

My experience with special needs children...

Well my youngest daughter is 9 and she was diagnosed autistic at 2 yrs old and she suffers from a disease called lupus. For the past 9 years I've been dealing with a ODD, ADHD, autistic, child who was diagnosed with Lupus at 8 yr old. She's brilliant, funny, gorgeous, and can do anything she puts her mind to. I love her to pieces even though sometimes it's hard to deal with these things especially with it being your own child. I have gone through so many different seminars, classes, and therapy groups and have learned different types of therapy on how to properly deal with children who are autistic with ADHD and ODD (for those who don't know odd stands for overly defiant disorder), which btw is no joke learning how to deal with it properly, alongside with the constant joint pain, swelling, rashes, and that's just part of the lupus. I have learned how to be able to calm down a little girl with ADHD and who is autistic just by using simple coping skills no medication needed.

The most important part about being a nanny...

My favorite Nanny moment is when they look at you and you're going home and they don't want you to go that look is just priceless that means you've done a good job and you've been a great guidance for them. I also have to add this one in, Okay so we bought a thousand pack of water balloons, literally it took us 2 almost 3 hours to fill them all up, we finally get done and put them in four different buckets to separate them so that way each corner of the backyard would have a bucket for you to grab them and throw, well long story short I put all the buckets in each corner the children are ready to go they have their little stances going I go to say on your mark get set throw there go my two dogs jumping in the buckets filled with the water balloons that it just took me how many hours to fill up and popped them all! We all died laughing so hard, But I was like for real though we didn't even get to throw them yet! The dogs got an extra bath that day.