Babysitter Available in Smyrna, TN: Ash K.

$16/hr

A little bit about me

Hey! My name is Ash. A couple reasons why I think that you should consider me is that while I have no paid experience in childcare, I'm far from inexperienced. I have countless hours volunteering at the public library specifically with children, I'm very used to being able to handle stressful situations where kids are involved, as well as being able to get along with them and communicate well with them. In addition to that, I am also a tutor, mostly for younger children (around 2nd to 5th grade), so you could suffice to say that I am great at being beyond patient with children and am great at being able to meet them at their level no matter what the circumstance.

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Looking For

Availability

Start: TBD

Occasional work

Live-out

Age Groups

Infants

Toddlers

Preschoolers

Grade-schoolers

How often do you need a babysitter?

Full-Time Part-Time

Qualifications

Certifications

Driver’s license

Other

Own transportation

Light housekeeping

Meal prep

More About Me

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

Public Library (various summers, many hours), tutoring situations, I have also been a frequent babysitter for my family

Activities I enjoy doing with children...

Indoor: creative things such as coloring/drawing, making up stories, arts and crafts, things that give them a creative outlet to really show what they're thinking

Outdoor: games that require a little more energy, things like sports (to the best of the child's ability), or other games that use a little bit more imagination, but still allow them to get out some of that energy that is better suited for outside, things that allow them to run around and be active for a little while

The most important part about being a nanny...

The most important part about being a nanny / babysitter is definitely being able to connect/communicate with the kids. Children are people too, they need to feel seen and heard just as much as we do, and in any job that has to do with children it is SO incredibly important that you are able to communicate and connect with them so that they not only feel heard, but safe with the person they're being entrusted to.

My experience with special needs children...

N/A (would be willing to work with a special needs child, but for the sake of the child because I have no experience, perhaps reconsider)

The most important part about being a nanny...

Last Summer, I was tutoring this girl and her brother. It was the very end of the summer in our last session, and because I had been with them all summer, their parents went out and got cupcakes so we could celebrate. The boy, we'll call him Jake (not his real name), took his cupcake and offered it to me, and then the girl, Bella (also not her real name), offered me hers, a very politely declined, but I did appreciate the sentiment, it was a box of maybe 10 cupcakes, I got up and went to the bathroom, and when I came back, apparently they were so offended that I redirected their cupcakes that they put them all upside down in my seat so that icing was all over it. It's so random, but that's easily one of my favorite memories when it comes to working with children, it was so funny.