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CC 101: Understanding Children by Dr. Lauren Formy-Duval (2 hours).

This course teaches the importance of attachment and provides an overview of child development stages for newborns, infants, toddlers, preschoolers, early elementary and primary years with a focus on physical, social, and emotional developmental milestones.

CC 102: Children and the Law by Aaron Brandel, JD (1 hour).

Laws differ in each state, but compliance with local child safety provisions is always mandatory. This course will review relevant laws on proper transportation, injury liability, child abuse, contracts, emergency treatment, and legal protections for childcare workers.

CC 201: Newborn Care by Dr. Tali Berkovitch (2 hours).

This course covers newborn and infant developmental milestones, holding, feeding, diapering, soothing, common ailments and signs of illness.

CC 205: Children and Literacy by Christine Ducz, MA (1 hour).

This course teaches early literacy skills for infants and toddlers while promoting strong reading and writing skills for preschool and kindergarten children. The course discusses advanced reading levels, the common core curriculum and how to support reading at home.

HS 202: Childhood Health by Dr. Alexandra Murr (1.5 hours).

This course teaches correct hand washing, how to manage common ailments (croup, RSV, flu and many others), recommended vaccinations, and over the counter medications.

CC 303: Advanced Newborn Care by Dr. Tali Berkovitch (1.5 hours).

This course teaches how to care for preemies, the science of breast milk and formulas, and advanced medical and health issues including circumcision, cleft palate and tongue tie, pyloric stenosis and plagiocephaly.

CC 305: Children and Music by Dr. Beth Stutzmann (1 hour).

Music helps the body and mind work together. This course introduces appropriate song literature, provides tools to teach music, and demonstrates musically integrated activities for children of different ages.

CC 404 Baby Sign Language by Jena Paulo, MS (0.5 hour).

Most babies can sign before they speak so parents are using baby sign language to boost communication. This course teaches why and how to use baby sign language, when to teach signs to babies and teaches you the most common baby signs.

CC 405: Multiples and Siblings by Kathryn Gonsalves, MA (0.5 hour).

This course is designed to help you better understand the multiple birth dynamics, what may be expected of you and how you can better manage the unique challenges of caring for multiples and supporting siblings.

HS 501: Sleep Training by Andrea Malson, NP (1 hour).

This course teaches sleep science and provides tools to help children ages 6 months and up develop healthy sleep habits. The course provides practical ways to overcome sleep challenges and introduces sleep techniques including the 5 S’s, no tears, pick up and put down, fading, and strategic napping.

HS 103: Water Awareness by Elizabeth Malson, MS (1 hour).

More than 350 children drown each year. This course discusses drowning risk factors, techniques to reduce drowning risk, dry and secondary drowning, types of floatation devices, and provides water safety guidelines when in, on, or around the water.

HS 104: Food Safety by Dr. Jennifer Rodriquez-Bosque (1 hour).

From farming to the kitchen, food safety decreases the risk of foodborne illnesses caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites and allergens. This course teaches food safety practices to prevent contamination, reduce pesticide exposure and safely prepare, cook, store, and reheat food.

GE 101: Professionalism by Karli Ortmann, MA (1 hour).

Conducting yourself with high character, integrity, and behaving with moral principles is required to be a positive role model for children. This course teaches how to engage professionally and make appropriate choices while employed in childcare.

HS 101: Emergency Planning by Elizabeth Malson, MS (1 hour).

Being prepared can help identify potential emergencies and possibly save lives. This course will teach specific actions needed for weather, medical, fire, unsafe situations, auto accidents, power loss and active shooter situations as well as provide tools on how to develop and use an emergency plan.

HS 102: Safety in the Home by Marlene Malson, MS (1 hour).

One of the primary responsibilities of a childcare provider is to supervise and monitor the safety of children in their care. This course will identify many of the physical risks including hazards, poisons, baby equipment, outdoor safety and discuss ways to eliminate or minimize the risk of injury or harm.

Miami FL Childcare Babysitters, Infant Night Nurse Care, Nanny Placements & Family Consults — nannypod

Babysitters, Infant Night Nurses, Nanny Placements & Family Consults via App – Miami FL (Downtown / Brickell / Key Biscayne)

Childcare provided through NannyPod’s app and your Local Area Manager in Miami FL (Downtown / Brickell / Key Biscayne) is the easiest hassle-free way for parents to get a break for a few hours. You can now have complete peace of mind knowing that a locally approved babysitter, nanny or infant night nurse will look after your children on date night, while you’re at work, or even overnight.

NannyPod can help you find childcare in the following towns, neighborhoods and surrounding areas. Search for a babysitter, nanny or infant care specialist today!

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Family Fees

Short Term Childcare: Membership Fee + Pay As You Go Fees

If you need short term childcare (date-night sitter, back up nanny, occasional appointments) then you’ll need to pay a membership fee plus pay as you go sitter fees. You are charged down to the exact minute. It’s convenient and precise, so no more guessing or calculating pay! All fees are clearly listed on our website.

Long Term Childcare: Membership Fee

If you need long term childcare (part time or full time nanny), then you’ll need to pay a membership fee. All fees are clearly listed on our website.

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Short Term Childcare: Date-Night Sitters / One Time Nannies / Back Up Care

Looking for a date-night Babysitter or occasional one time Nanny? All of the childcare staff on the NannyPod platform complete a full application. It really is safe, secure & reliable.

Infant Care – Specialized Baby Nurse Care Day or Night

Looking for an Infant Care Nurse in the short term or long term to monitor your baby so you can get some day rest or get a good nights sleep? All of the Infant Care Nurses are either fully qualified Registered Nurses (RNs) or Infant Care Specialists (ICS) or Newborn Care Specialists (NCS).  

Nanny Placements & Personal Family Consults

Looking for a local Family Consult in person to cover your exact infant / childcare needs or maybe find a Nanny in Miami FL (Downtown / Brickell / Key Biscayne)who is matched to your family? Just request a Family Consults through the App once you are registered and have paid the membership fee.

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Nanny for a baby up to a year: pros and cons

Xana Faircloug

Journalist, author of The Daily Baby, diver, freediver, mother of four

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Is it worth it to hire a nanny for a baby under one year old? How to do it correctly if your answer is yes? Mothers share their experiences, both positive and negative, and an experienced child psychologist comments on possible options.

In an ideal world, the mother of a small child spends all her time with him, smiling happily and photographing all his small great achievements. Mom calmly manages to play with the baby, cook amazingly delicious dinners, and clean the house. She has a good mood and financial well-being, which allows her to be calmly on maternity leave. However, even with such a magical scenario, sometimes there may be a need for a nanny: go to a friend’s birthday party or fly on vacation to the warm sea, and just exhale and spend the day alone or with a friend, play with older children, if any.

The reality, as a rule, is more prosaic: many modern women, even when they are at home, work almost immediately after giving birth, either remotely or as a freelancer. Someone goes to work for part of the day, while others, for various reasons, work the prescribed eight hours away from the baby. The reasons are clear, and with all this, the institution of grandmothers in our time has practically outlived itself. In this case, you definitely cannot do without a nanny – and she must spend several hours a day every day with the child. And then the night, as it turns out.

Mothers share their stories: how they managed to hire a nanny for a child under one year old, what came of it and what advice they can give, based on their experience, to other parents.

“Nanny is our best investment”

Inna, 35, mother of two daughters aged 5 and 2:

— We hired a nanny to live in our big house and did it before the birth of our youngest daughter, so that the nanny had time make contact with all of us. The eldest daughter goes to kindergarten, my husband works on a rotational basis, and I am an interior designer. In my profession, you can’t afford to stop working – constant contact is important to clients, and I spent too much time and effort on getting a solid base. Yes, and I can work right from home, all I need is silence and my laptop. A couple of times a week I go to a meeting or to shops to pick up the right items or materials on the spot.

We selected a nanny based on recommendations – I initially wanted a Filipina, I had a similar very positive experience with my older child, however, Milochka was two and a half at that time. Now that Lesya is already two, our Joe continues to live with us – and I don’t have a soul in her. She speaks good Russian and is fluent in English.

Our nanny has a serious medical education, received in the States, and, most importantly, she really loves children. And they pay her the same.

Joe takes great care of the girl – massages, bathes, feeds, and now plays with her. We take it with us on all trips.

I still continue to breastfeed my youngest. I also try to work in a sort of “shift method”: four hours in the morning, then I play with my daughter or we walk together, and Joe prepares dinner at this time, then I sit down at the computer during daytime sleep and stay there until 6 pm. By the time the eldest returns from the garden, I try to finish everything. Everything that I do not have time to do during the day, I finish in the evening, when the children go to bed.

Now we are thinking about a third child – we really want a boy. Of course, Joe will stay with us. It costs us a lot of money each month, but it’s the best investment I’ve ever made. To the health of all members of my family and to my own peace. Opportunity for career growth and professional success.

I advise everyone who has doubts – a nanny is very much needed. Mom gets the opportunity to do what she loves and earn money, the child is under professional supervision, everyone is happy.

“I wouldn’t even wish for my enemy that his children grow up with a nanny”

Arina, 37 years old, three children 1.5, 5 and 9 years old:

— My experience is very sad. I tried to hire a nanny for my two children – my ex-husband and I live in different cities, the children are with me, I work as a financial controller in a large corporation. Decree for me is suicide, I cannot and do not want to stay at home with a child. I feel that I am starting to grow dull and become a quarrelsome, overwhelmed aunt, and they let me go from work to take care of the child only for six months.

With my middle child, I hired a nanny when my son was six months old. At first, everything was fine and smooth: Valentina (name changed – Ed.) seemed to be a decent and calm woman. A couple of months later, it turned out that she managed to steal money and food little by little, sleep with my husband when I was in the next room with the elder.

Naturally, I wrote a statement against her, now she is in prison – it turned out that the woman is generally on the international wanted list, she left the neighboring country, because there she was “shone” with a prison term for fraud.

My mother sat with Lesha before he entered the kindergarten. She protested, but there were no options. My husband and I then divorced, of course.

I found out about the third pregnancy too late – they tried to reconcile with my husband, “reconciled”. I decided to give birth – and it was immediately clear that a nanny would be needed after my maternity six months. My mother refused to go to us again, just flatly, by that time she and her husband had finally parted.

I was looking for a nanny for a long time, frightened by the previous story. I think I found an older woman, as skinny as Peltzer. The next six months were real torture – my daughter was melting before our eyes. The nanny constantly smiled, said that everything was fine – but the child could see that everything was very bad, and it was getting worse every day. She constantly screamed at night, shuddered from sharp sounds, refused to eat the mixture.

Installed video surveillance – it did not work, our “Peltzer” did everything exactly as we agreed with her. I was close to insanity – from lack of sleep and despair. It was impossible to quit working – the family needed to be fed. Change jobs – nothing. Fire the nanny? Based on what? treat your daughter? From what? I never found out what was the matter. She decided to end the torment, she sent her mother to us, she simply put the question point-blank: either you are sitting with Lenochka, or consider that we are gone and you won’t have any more. My daughter seems to be on the mend, but all this is very difficult. I have a huge sense of guilt, I think that I am a disgusting mother.

I would not wish my enemy to have his little children grow up with a nanny. If you have even the slightest possibility of not calling a stranger into your house, don’t do it. The kid will not be able to tell anything or just complain. I regret that I didn’t put pressure on the situation with my mother then and left my daughter with a nanny. Now we are clearing things up with a psychologist.

“I pay my older children for babysitting”

Ksana, 40, four children, author of the material

I don’t have a nanny, and my youngest daughter is now one and a half months old I didn’t go on any maternity leave – it’s simply impossible to freelance, and I just don’t know how to sit at home. My work as a journalist allows me to work at the time that I choose myself. Now my youngest daughter sleeps more often than she is awake – and I manage to write articles, breastfeed the baby and play with the middle one and read books with her. Then, of course, it will be different.

My older children are now almost 15 and unschooled. We agreed with them that during my work, if I need to sit or play with the younger girls (one and a half months and almost three years old daughters), it is easier for me to pay them, and not someone else’s aunt.

This disciplines both me and them – they select developmental activities, I know for sure that I get my three or four hours of time for work.

However, I am fully aware that in six months my older daughter and son may refuse to be engaged in babysitting.

In this case, perhaps, I would hire a nanny, but I would choose her for a long time – so that I would like her purely as a human being.

With the permission of our heroines, the child psychologist Olga Trofimova commented on their stories.

– We will not discuss whether it is generally permissible for a nanny to appear next to a child under one year old. Life is such that any of the mothers may find it necessary to earn money, and here you don’t have to choose – they don’t work in the fields, you just can’t drag a child with you in a scarf on your belt. It’s good when a mother can work from home – it’s calmer for her, the child, and the nanny: all controversial or incomprehensible points can be resolved immediately on the spot.

All three stories are very revealing in their own way. Inna’s situation can be considered ideal – her mother is always there, she can control the actions of the nanny, help with difficult or controversial situations. Even just the fact of the mother’s presence helps the baby feel very well. It’s good that the nanny immediately had contact with the little girl. In my practice, this happens with nannies from God – and this is perhaps the very first thing you should pay attention to when you first meet a hypothetical nanny.

Education, previous work experience matter, of course, but it is the person himself that you should like at first sight.

Your child should be very comfortable with him. It’s good when a nanny has the skills of a nurse or a professional massage therapist: up to a year, unfortunately, situations sometimes arise when urgent help from a medical specialist is needed.

Arina’s situation shows all the disadvantages that are almost inevitable in a situation with a nanny for a child under one year old, if there is initially no contact between all the participants. The heroine is right: the baby is really unable to recognize the source of discomfort (cold or hot, want to eat or drink, bored or don’t like the toy). Even the rough skin on the nanny’s hands or her smell, for example, can be unpleasant for a small person, he cannot say about it or refuse contact with her – of course, he will react exactly the way he knows how. Crying, whims, refusal to eat.

In general, a nanny is hired strictly for the child – so that someone is with him and takes care of him, but sometimes a nanny is hired for himself, no matter how strange it may sound.

Mom needs an adult female nanny who will be able to solve her own psychological problems, close some unresolved issues with her own mother, hug, figuratively speaking, her inner child. This is partly Arina’s situation – I would advise her to contact a professional psychologist. We do not know why such a sad situation arose with her child and nanny. But it is obvious that at that moment the mother was in a rather severe psychological form, which could not but be projected onto her daughter, at least. Perhaps the nanny did something unacceptable in relation to the child – for example, smiling at her mother, she was cold and indifferent to the child, and children very subtly and precisely feel such things.

It is very important that a normal working relationship be built between mother and nanny: even the most beautiful nanny will not become either a grandmother or an aunt. The variants of Pushkin’s Arina Rodionovna, unfortunately, are more likely to be an exception to the general rule in our time. There are simply no such selfless women who are able to sincerely live the affairs of their new family, perhaps. Much more often, manipulations can be observed in both directions – either the mother begins to violate boundaries, threatening the financial stability of the nanny, or she, in turn, can begin to use a good attitude towards herself, seeing that the child is clearly attached to her and the family is unlikely to be ready with her to part.

Xana’s variant is a compromise, the child is with his own children, with whom the mother’s boss-subordinate relationship is built, this is quite convenient for everyone. In Russia, this is not the most common option, but in general, in many cultures and countries, it is teenagers who make up a rather noticeable class of nannies: their services are relatively cheap, they are energetic and inventive, quite diligent – at this age, the opportunity to have their own finances is highly valued, this gives a certain independence from parents.

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Olga Trofimova

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Babysitter. Looking for a babysitter for an infant

How to hire a nanny >> Baby sitter

Contents:

• How old is the baby?
• Not only care
• Looking for a like-minded person
• Who is your nanny?

It is generally accepted that a nanny for a child under one year old should have a medical education, for a baby from one year old to senior preschool age – with a pedagogical one, as a nanny-governess for a schoolchild, they often look for a former teacher, etc. Sometimes this approach works, sometimes it doesn’t. Those who have changed more than one nanny and have experience in searching (as well as psychologists from recruitment agencies) agree that the main thing is not the specialized education of a nanny, but the similarity of your views on raising a child of a particular age. Let’s see what this might mean in practice. Today we will talk about nannies for babies.

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How old is the baby?

If a nanny is invited to replace a mother who goes to work or is forced to leave home without a baby (and we will consider this option), the child’s age is probably approaching six months. Judge for yourself: on-demand breastfed babies suck too often for the first two or three months, and the mother, wanting to be away for a long time, will have to express quite a lot of milk (and this is also time). It is easier with the nutrition of artificial children, but they also need maternal warmth. In addition, a baby who is given mother’s milk in her absence from a bottle with a nipple may experience a so-called nipple confusion – the child will begin to suck on the breast in the same way as a nipple. A possible result of such improper attachment to the breast is cracked nipples in the mother, malnutrition of the baby, and even refusal of the breast in favor of the nipple.

But by 4-5 months, breastfed babies do not suckle so much during the day (usually on waking up and at bedtime), have a fairly stable regimen, begin to show interest in adult food and can receive some amount of complementary foods – already from spoons, not from a bottle. At the same time, they still do not know how to be afraid of strangers and can relatively quickly get used to a new benevolent person in their environment.

Nevertheless, it is better for a mother to start full-time work closer to the year: then there may be almost no daytime breastfeeding, and a child who is actively engaged in learning about the world around her will more easily endure her absence.

When should the babysitter be replaced by a new one? For most staffing agencies, a nanny for a baby is a nanny for children up to a year old, then you will be offered a nanny-educator (no longer with a medical, but with a pedagogical education). In real life, there are many women who can get along with a baby, and a child under 2-3 years old can give a lot. And there are those who stipulate in advance: I work only with infants who cannot walk, it is difficult with older children.

By the way, no one has yet answered the question: what changes so fundamentally after the first birthday is celebrated? Yes, the baby begins to walk around this time (again, someone at 10 months, and someone at a little over a year), however, he becomes mobile (crawling), inquisitive (tasting and touching everything and everyone) he becomes much earlier – to move around on their own, albeit on all fours, some begin as early as 6 months!

If we proceed from the behavior of the child and his basic needs, then the “baby” age ends closer to one and a half years: the baby has already significantly separated from the mother psychologically, knows a lot on his own, is busy mastering such “adult” things as a spoon and a pot, and needs not only care, but also training (some skills), and education.

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Not only care

But what does the one we call a baby need? “Full care for a child,” they write in the ads. It is clear that the baby will have to be fed, put to bed, washed and changed, taken out for a walk. More meticulous employers add to this list of requirements for a babysitter “keeping the children’s things, the children’s room clean”, “preparing food for the child”, etc. However, for the very object of all these manipulations, there is something no less important, which is not mentioned in the ads – its physical and emotional development.

In fact, if a mother works a full day or so, it is the nanny who has to do gymnastics with the baby, stimulate his motor activity (or just not interfere with mastering the space), and finally, just carry him in her arms correctly!

people who “remember” how to hold a baby (note, at different ages), who have had many children in their arms: a pediatrician or a nurse, a competent mother or grandmother, will cope with this task. It is not difficult to test a potential nanny: in experienced, even unfamiliar, hands, kids feel confident and calm.

Another test: ask the nanny at what age a child usually masters certain movements. So, if a nanny, “who dreams of working with a baby,” according to her, is surprised at a three-month-old toddler: “Is he really already holding his head!” – it is worth thinking about her professional suitability. A person working with a baby should have a good idea of ​​how the child’s musculoskeletal system develops.

As for emotional contact with an adult, in the opinion of child psychologists, in the first year of life it is more important than all other components of a baby’s life. The foundations of the perception of the world and oneself, relationships with people are laid at this time.