I started a new job as a FT nanny a couple of months ago, and I love it! I'm curious to know how many other nannies (or former nannies) there are on here 
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I was a nanny in college!
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I nannied for two years in Paris not long after college.
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I nannied my 2 nieces for a couple years. I only just stopped since I'm having my own baby soon! I also worked in a private preschool before that. I spent 2 years in the 2.5-3 year old room. That was an experience.
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Part time in college, but me!
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Nanny here! I went part time this fall. I love having so much freetime, but I miss my long, full days with my littles (and my full time paycheck, I miss that too!
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I am a nanny! I have been doing it for most of my adult life except three years that I taught. I love my job!
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Nannied in college and sporadically in between professional jobs when we moved!
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I figured there would be more than a few of us kicking around!
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I was in college. It wasn't a formal arrangement with paid holidays or time off...it was more lax than that because the lady I worked for was just volunteering at her kids school, studying for her boards and doing other things which didn't give her a super rigid schedule. I loved it and the money was good!!!
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I'm a live in nanny. I love it
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Can I semi thread jack? I know a lot of you have lo's of your own now, I just found out this week that we are expecting our first. How have you found motherhood as compared to being a nanny, especially if you were with the family for a long time?
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@Cole: Thread-jack away! I have no kids of my own yet so I'm no help, but I wanted to say congratulations!! So exciting
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@cole- I don't have any kids of my own but I imagine it will be a lot easier. You already know what parenting style works for you (hopefully your husband agrees) and you're able to make the rules. When you're a nanny sometimes you have to do whatever your boss wants even though you disagree with it. I think it will be a lot easier.
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@cole- I'm also sure you will still have a special bond with your long term families.
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I was a nanny for 3 years before DD was born in September. I still have a great relationship with my last family.
@Cole: it's helped a lot! I find I'm much more calm when my LO cries because I know I can figure out what's wrong. I know what I do want to do with her & what I don't. It's definitely different with your own LO but I definitely feel like I've had an advantage compared to other first time moms
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I was for 10 years!
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i nannied for a few years after college.
@Cole: while nannying gave me a lot of experience and has given me ideas of what to expect, i feel like it also set me up to be a little over confident. especially because i nannied for a newborn so i had a kind of "i got this" attitude but in reality nannying for a newborn and being a parent to a newborn are completely different things (obviously. it just didn't click until after a few nights of no sleep
)that's probably not even what you were asking, but just my experience.
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@jmarionsmith: Yes! This! I didn't read a single book until after lo was born because I just assumed I knew what I was doing. The shock of realizing I didn't have a CLUE was completely unexpected and hit me like a ton of bricks those first months.
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*raises hand* I just moved to part time with the 16 month old I care for. I have another job and going to school but I'm not ready to give up being his nanny! I love it.
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I worked as an au pair for a year before starting university, for a family with 4 kids, a 16 year old, 15 year old, 3 years old and 6 month old. To be honest I didn't really have much to do with the baby, I mainly looked after the 3 year old and took the older kids to school ect.
I loved it, and my family was great, but I don't think it's done much to prepare me for having kids on my own.
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Part time in college here too.
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Here! I have done live-out, live-in, FT and PT, and did so for about 5-ish years.
@Cole: firstly, congrats on the BFP! Secondly, it is worlds different. A huge reason I loved being a nanny is because I could experience loving children, their love returned, and the joys that being with a child during the day can bring - but at the end of the day I could give them back to their parents, and then relax do my own thing. I could go out with friends, stay out late and sleep in on weekends. I could date and really had so much free reign. But when you're a parent, though you experience that same love and joy, you're also faced with constant heartbreak, sleeplessness, loss of freedom, responsibilities, etc. I was pretty shocked at how different it was, but more importantly, shocked at how much more I could love my own child - even though I had always treated my nanny kids as "my own".
Oh- and as a nanny you get paid a pretty penny to care for others kids, but being a parent, you definitely do not get paid. You pay to be a parent in so many ways. Not that it isn't worth it - ha. This is just scratching the surface of how different it was for me.
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I nannied part-time in college, and full time for a couple of years after college!
@Cole: I'm in the same boat as you, due for my first in July. We'll see how much it prepared me Congrats on the BFP!
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I nannied for over 10 years. I still see some of "my kids".
@Cole: I was a nanny for over 10 years (8 years for one family) up until the birth of my own. It's different, because you get to make your own schedule and rules. I feel nannying helped me SO much though. I'm much more relaxed than all the other first time moms I know. And I feel I've seen so many different parenting styles I've gotten to see first hand what I would and wouldn't like to do with my own. I have felt confident and natural with LO from the beginning, and I'm used to the chaos and mess that comes with kids.
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I look after a lovely 12-month-old but I bring my own LO alonw with me so I feel like half nanny, half SAHM.
I kind of get the best of both worlds.
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@travelgirl1: Not gonna lie, that sounds pretty ideal to me! I have to ask - did the family that you nanny for ever express concern that you'd give more attention to your own LO at the expense of theirs?
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@PermaStudent: No, they didn't actually and the girls themselves are very good about sharing attention; if one needs a cuddle, the other one is very good about it. Sometimes while one is getting a hug, the other comes and sits on my knee and hugs the other girl too. The mom is another bee: @oliviaoblivia: I think what helps a lot is we discuss the girls' individual schedules and needs a lot and keep in text contact through the day.
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Part time nanny in college
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Former nanny here! I still was when I joined HB, and we weren't even TTC yet!
I quit last year when we moved, and didn't continue here because I had 2 m/c's and needed a break from kids. But I think once my kid(s) are older I'll pick it back up.
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I was a nanny during college. I worked for a military family while the dad was deployed. I loved taking care of those kids. They were so much fun!
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@travelgirl1: side note: so fun that you watch L! Love that!!
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@birdofafeather: We do have lots of fun and both girls are great together. I can't wait for this horrendous winter to do one so we can hit up some parks and let them explore the outdoors properly, like jumping in puddles and running on the grass
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