What are the benefits to being a nanny?
Are you looking to change up your career? Do you love working with children? Do you desire to make a difference in a child’s life? Want to combine your love of working with kids into a paying and rewarding job?
Then you need to consider the role of a nanny!
To become a nanny, you partner with someone, typically the parent of the child, in providing basic needs, discipline, nurturing, and structure in their day-to-day life. Today, we are sharing some of the benefits of choosing the career of a nanny that are most often shared by professional nannies. Here are the top 6 benefits to being a nanny that we hear from our nannies most often.
#1Â It’s life-changing.
Being a nanny will change your life in the best of ways.
When you partner with a family as a nanny to their children, you are there to help raise their child. You form a bond and trust, all in the closeness and familiarity of the child’s home, to provide comfort and love where the child is most comfortable.
#2 It’s fun!
Being a nanny is just plain fun. Part of your job, what you are getting paid to do, is to play! Seriously – what other job allows that?
Whether you are running around the backyard, tossing a ball, constructing forts, or building block towers, joining in the imagination of a child is fun. It’s a joy for you as a nanny.
#3 It’s rewarding to contribute to the child’s growth.
When you partner with parents as a nanny, you’ll help provide for the child’s basic day-to-day physical needs. You also have the opportunity to help shape their attitudes, education, and skills each day. Whether that teaching comes in the form of social skills, counting, spelling, or after-school work, you’ll have the awesome opportunity to impact their trajectory and the people they will become. You’ll help set the stage for their future life and watch them grow toward it!
#4 You grow as a result of the role.
As a nanny, the child will not be the only one you see growing. You will soon learn that the role of a nanny is not only about teaching the child and watching them grow. The role inherently provides a fundamental opportunity for your own growth! You will quickly learn that you need to learn how to communicate on all levels – from communication with parents as your employee relationship grows, to verbal and non-verbal communication methods in your daily interactions with the child in your care.
As anyone who has ever worked with children will tell you, you will learn patience. The nature of teaching children, especially young ones, is largely focused on changing and influencing behaviors and problem-solving thought processes. The most successful way to accomplish that is through repetition. And repetition most certainly requires patience, which you will hone and grow in your journey as a nanny.
#5 You see your work in action.
As a nanny, you have the opportunity to witness the fruits of your labor often, and often in the most unexpected moments. When you guide your charge on social skills such as sharing, seeing that child put that lesson into action by sharing with you or peers can be immensely satisfying to you as a child-care professional. Likewise, your academic support of their learning can provide you with pride in both the child’s efforts and your own when you witness them successfully counting or reciting the alphabet. You will no doubt be reminded of the impact you have on their life on a daily basis.
#6 The Benefit of Gaining a Community and Family
A family is asking you to come in and help in the care and nurture of their most precious gift, their child. That is a powerful responsibility. You soon realize that as a nanny, by nature of just how precious the charge is for which you’re responsible, you quickly become integrated into the family unit as a core part of the family structure and daily life. You become part of the family community, a part of the household, and an extension of the love and care the parents have for their children, very often and very quickly making you an endeared member of the family and family’s community.
Day in and day out, you are with the family – sometimes even when the child is sick. Your role allows you to offer love, comfort, and support. Families and children see and remember the love and care you provided. Years later after the children have left the nest, you will still be remembered as a vital part of their formative years and upbringing.
Even though these are some of the most often repeated benefits that we hear from our nannies, you will likely not only experience these 6 benefits but also a range of benefits and rewards that unique to you.
If any of these benefits speak to you, or you can envision yourself in a rewarding role as a nanny, please consider learning more and joining the many respected and valued professional in our field as a nanny.
Being a nanny is rewarding work. It’s vital work. It is a role that changes both you and the families you work with for the better. Having worked closely with hundreds of nannies, we can confidently say:
You will not regret it.
If you are interested in learning more about becoming a professional here at Capitol Park Nannies + Staffing then read more about what we look for in our nannies. And please check out the many open positions that may be right for you!
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