Two summers ago, I wanted to save up money to buy my brother a birthday gift. Since I had no money and the gift he wanted was a little over $100.00 I decided I would babysit my niece over the summer to earn enough money. A week after school ended I asked my older sister if I could babysit my niece instead of her taking her to her original babysitter and she agreed. My sister said she would pay me $80.00 a week which was more than enough and I could easily then afford a present for my brother before the end of July. The start of babysitting was really hard for me because I had summer homework to do , chores to do and on top of taking care of my niece I had to also take care of siblings while my parents worked. It was hard managing time between …show more content…
I knew that by 2:00 pm I had to have my niece showered before my sister came for her. And that after that I could work on my homework. At the time, I didn’t have a bank account to put the money I earned in so sometimes I would waste the money instead of saving it. I told myself I wouldn’t be able to buy my brother a gift if I kept being wasteful so I started saving half of what I earned for the gift and the other half for me. Sometimes by niece would misbehave and my siblings would start arguing and fighting so I had to think of ways to calm them down and make them stop which was very hard to do since they were not good at following rules. They like to watch movies and food so whenever they were too much for me to handle I would ask them if they wanted to watch a movie and that would calm them down and if that didn’t work making them something to eat quick made them settle too. By the beginning of the July I had already saved more than money to get my brother a birthday gift before his birthday so a week before I went and got him a present and had had more than enough money leftover so I saved
In the spring of 1990 in Edenton North Carolina seven people including the owners and the staff members of the Little Rascals Day Care Center had been arrested and charged with sexually abuse. The mother Audrey Stever, who was concerned about her 3 year old Kyle reported the details of the abuse to authority. Seven staff members that worked in the Little Rascals day care were innocently accused of sexually abusing the majority of the children that attended the Little Rascals day care. This is a witch hunt because the co-workers were blamed. Put to jail, and judged for a crime they never committed.
Early years play a significant role in the life of any human being. Recently, there has been a lot of discussions about whether kids should spend their early years in school or not. In this essay, the reasons for students spending time in school until the age of eighteen will be discussed.
Prior to that, me and my brother had a rough life. We were in foster care for 2-3 years before my grandma (passed in 2011) and granpda (recently passed in February) took me and my brother in and they made sure me or my brother only had to worry about school and I will forever be grateful for that but I always felt sort of like a black sheep because most of my friends had jobs and were buying their own things. Meanwhile, I had to ask my grandpa for money and I hate asking anyone for anything so it was sort of tough for me but he never really had a problem with it as long as my grades kept up. I worked briefly with my father in roofing here and there but it was never consistent and roofing ... man it is a tough job especially on your body in the long
Are you debating whether to send your child to daycare or to be a stay at home parent? Parents always face this question when their children reach a certain age. Nearly three-quarters of American mothers with children at home are employed. Many parents pick daycare over being a stay at home parent. Many people don’t know what daycare actually is. Daycare is a facility that takes care of children while their parents are at work. Stay at home parents don’t normally work, and stay at home with their children for most of the day. The ones that do work, work at home. It is very clear which one is better for children development. Daycare is better than stay at home parents for children development.
• Ensure that my own health and hygiene does not pose a threat to others.
When my sister had her baby it made me realize I had more responsibility, I had to be more helpful, and mature faster than your normal teenager. It made me realize that I had to grow up and start helping around the house in order to help my sister with her baby.
I have lost my baby sister, I was supposed to be babysitting her. "Korrina, Korrina, Korrina," I kept hollering my baby sister's name, and I kept looking and looking for Korrina. However, I could not find her anywhere. I went to go tell my dad. Then I finally found my baby sister. She was sitting on my father's lap, I was so jubilant that my father had my baby sister. I was depressed. Babysitting is exhausting because every time you babysit, you always end up exhausted at the end of the day.
One day my niece grabbed my homework and ripped it. Since this was the first time she did this while I was babysitting, this was not going to be the last. In order to combine both of my responsibilities, I finished my homework for the week the night before I watched her. At times, it became difficult to manage my life with school and babysitting responsibilities. After this incident, it taught me how to organize my responsibilities. Following the previous incident, one weekend my babysitting duties and research paper coincided. This was harder than before because not only did I have to babysit but this was also going to be the longest period of time I was left alone with her. During her naps, I had the chance to work on my paper. This was an advantage because I was familiar with her schedule, so I planned out the amount of time required to finish my research
A childminder is somebody who works with children in their own home for more than 2 or three hours a day. A childminder needs good communication skills, be able to understand children, be able to keep records and to be able to do basic maths. They have to attend safeguarding training courses so that the children are kept safe and attend regular training in the evenings or weekends. A childminder doesn’t have much time to themselves due to having to make sure that all registers, accounts, learning records and risk assessments are all looked after and updated. They also need to make sure that the children are looked after in a safe and healthy environment. A childminder has to make sure a child’s needs are met and be able to make them feel safe and secure.
Babysitting can be a very easy way to earn money… Most times I will have quiet, easy going kids that I can easily seduce by putting on a movie while I sleep. Or other times I have kids who love playing games that keep me entertained. I have had some interesting incidents while babysitting that made up for the times where I kind of slacked off a little bit. For example one time I was babysitting a girl who went into the fridge looking for something to eat, she took a big finger full of what she thought was cookie dough when it was actually a bowl of raw ground beef. It wasn’t exactly hard just a little bit angering to me. There was also the time when one of the little boys I was babysitting decided that I deserved to be walloped with a metal
Being a child care worker may seem like ton of work to me, but it seems like fun. Why? It deals with kids and helping them out and I really love to help kids! I have done research about them and what they do, at first it sounded like it was all too much but I thought hey if I like to work with kids and help them out and talk, I figured if I did this job maybe it wouldn’t actually be that hard as it sounds!!
There are many different types of preschool. They all have different curriculum but the one I chose was a preschool at Ambassador Academy. What is your idea of the perfect preschool?
When entering foster care, or the “child welfare system,” a child does not enter a single system, but rather multiple systems that intersect and interact to create a safety net for sad children who cannot remain with their birth parents. State and local child welfare agencies, courts, private service providers, and public agencies that administer other government programs (such as public assistance or welfare, mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment), and Medicaid all play critical roles in providing supports and services to sad children and families involved with foster care.
‘Improving the physical health of young Australians’ (ARACY 2014) has been established as one of the priority directions to achieve good physical health and wellbeing for all Australian children. Improving Indigenous young people’s physical health can not only alleviate disease burden of their current health, but also set the stage for their future health and wellbeing. Youth is crucial for physical, cognitive, social and moral development (Resnick et.al 2012). Functional development, such as visual process and language acquisition, requires sensory stimulations during the ‘critical period’ and ‘sensitive period’ in the first 5 years of life (Hensch 2005). Unequal distribution of diseases in Indigenous
Babysitting is something one would do if they love children and do not mind watching them for hours. One would think that it could not be very hard, which is why I agreed to watch my cousins one day. They were brother and sister and two years apart. It was my first time watching them by myself from morning to night. Lots of ideas popped in my head and I thought it would be a breeze, but it did not turn out as expected which caused me to view babysitting differently.