100 Tips for Nannies and Families

You want your babysitter to be a positive caregiver for your children.  What behaviors should you be looking for? 

Does your babysitter:

• smile easily?
• laugh easily?
• exhibit good eye contact?
• speak using a variety of pitches or tones?
• discuss the silver lining in each cloud?
• discuss the future with anticipation and excitement?
• give praise or affirmations to others often?
• employ friendly, open body language and facial expressions?
• exhibit empathy, compassion, and patience instead of criticism?
• forgive quickly and easily?
• seek to understand perspectives that differ from her own?
• promptly and correctly identify problems and their solutions?
• identify problems as learning or growth opportunities?
• exhibit a love of learning, socialization, and health/wellness?
• exhibit self-awareness and self-acceptance?
• model behaviors associated with establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries?
• adapt easily to change?
• remain calm when circumstances are hectic?
• embrace feedback with an open mind?
• lead by example?

Your children learn by example.  When you model positive behaviors and choose a babysitter that does the same, you set the stage for your children’s own positive behaviors.

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