{"id":1433,"date":"2015-06-17T11:14:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T10:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2015-06-17T11:14:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T10:14:31","slug":"students-for-summer-childcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/students-for-summer-childcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Students for summer childcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/childcare\/students-for-summer-childcare\/attachment\/library-1822683_1280\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1935\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1935\" title=\"library-1822683_1280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/library-1822683_1280-1-1024x733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"733\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year university students use their long summer break to earn a bit of extra cash to support them through their studies. Often young women, although some young men too, who like children see spending a summer as a nanny as the perfect solution. Students can be a great alaternative if you&#8217;re considering a summer au pair, but there pros and cons to weigh up.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Pros:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of free time before and after the school holidays means they don&#8217;t mind working full days for 6 weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Plenty of enthusiasm and energy. Being out and about with children is a refreshing change to sitting in a lecture theatre or a library.<\/li>\n<li>High level of education. Going to university means they have at least A-levels or equivalent and one or more years of higher education behind them. This means they&#8217;re literate, numerate and may be studying something relevant to childcare or that your children find interesting such as music or drama.<\/li>\n<li>Cost-effective. A student will probably cost you less than an experienced nanny (but there are reasons for this &#8211; see cons).<\/li>\n<li>Flexible on location. Many students are prepared to work in either their home town or where their university is, and some will travel across the country for a live in position.<\/li>\n<li>English Mother Tongue, so no need to factor in language lessons or anticipate difficulties communicating with your children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Cons:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May lack experience, and with experience comes wisdom. A nanny with no previous experience of childcare may suddenly discover that they hate doing it, and may not know how to handle children day to day.<\/li>\n<li>Expensive to insure on the car may mean trips out are limited to walking, bike rides or public transport.<\/li>\n<li>May need guidance\/hand holding. If they&#8217;re not too sure what to do they may prefer to seek guidance than risk getting something wrong (as would any young or inexperienced nanny). You may also need to provide a list of appropriate activities for them to suggest.<\/li>\n<li>Different expectations. A student may not know what the full role of a nanny is, and if you&#8217;re expecting them to fill that role you may be in for a bumpy ride. Good communication should sort this out, as will modifying your expectations to match their experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year university students use their long summer break to earn a bit of extra cash to support them through their studies. Often young women, although some young men too, who like children see spending a summer as a nanny as the perfect solution. Students can be a great alaternative if you&rsquo;re considering a summer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/students-for-summer-childcare\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Students for summer childcare&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}