Professional Nanny Job Description

Series Summary

A professional nanny is a person hired to care for and look after children in the children's home. Nannies may live in or out of the house where they are employed and the job description for a nanny will often depend on the needs of the parents. Most nannies contribute to the emotional, intellectual, social and physical development of a child through basic child care, games and fun activities. Interested in being a professional nanny? Get career information on nanny jobs with tips from an experienced nanny in this free video series on career information. Learn about nanny salaries, the pros and cons of being a nanny and how to become a nanny. Find out about nanny qualifications, a basic job description and hear about one nanny's hardest day. Anyone with a passion for helping and caring for children should consider becoming a nanny.

Video Transcript

"A professional nanny, well there's a difference because a babysitter is just someone that comes once a week or something at nights. A nanny, people get it confused. I think a nanny is someone that does a little light cleaning, cooking, does more with the kids like we'll take them to soccer practice or ballet or something like that. It is pretty much, it's an ongoing thing. They have set days, set hours, set pay and isn't fourteen years olds. So, yeah. A typical day for a nanny is either you'll go to the kid's house or the kid will come to your house. The parents will drop them off. You have breakfast for them. You make it for them. You play with them for a couple of hours, you put them on their nap, when they wake up, you play with them more, you make them lunch. You just take care of them. You're there as their friend but also you take care of them and make sure they're not getting into something that they shouldn't, which everyone knows a toddler will get into everything. So, just make sure they're not climbing up the stairs when you're not looking or getting into something pointy or small or something like that. The difference between a babysitter and a nanny is like I said, the set hours and pay and all that and you would, you do more like cleaning and cooking and that kind of stuff. But a babysitter, again, she will or he will be the one to watch the baby and play with it, which is like a nanny, but I think a nanny is older. They've been through more, they're more experienced and I would feel safer having my kids with with a nanny preferably than a babysitter just because to me, I think of a babysitter as like thirteen, fourteen years old. Someone that's still in school, that will abuse your house as in talk on your phone and invite your friends over when they're not supposed to be there and just someone that doesn't take the job seriously and that's still young and is learning life lessons. And a nanny already knows it and they're there because they want to be there and because their full priority is to take care of the kid because they love kids."