- Everything you need to know about caring for the children will come up at one point or another.
- Child care workers nurture and care for children who have not yet entered formal schooling. They also supervise older children before and after school. These workers play an important role in children’s development by caring for them when parents are at work or away for other reasons. In addition to attending to children’s basic needs, child care workers organize activities and implement curricula that stimulate children’s physical, emotional, intellectual, and social growth. They help children explore individual interests, develop talents and independence, build self-esteem, and learn how to get along with others.
Do a lot of people have this career?
- Yes
- No
- About 35 percent of child care workers are self-employed, most of whom provided child care in their homes.
- Child care workers must anticipate and prevent problems, deal with disruptive children, provide fair but firm discipline, and be enthusiastic and constantly alert. They must communicate effectively with the children and their parents, as well as with teachers and other child care workers. Workers should be mature, patient, understanding, and articulate and have energy and physical stamina. Skills in music, art, drama, and storytelling also are important. Self-employed child care workers must have business sense and management abilities.
- Training requirements range from a high school diploma to a college degree, although a high school diploma and a little experience are adequate for many jobs.
- You really only need a h.s. diplomia
- Many workers leave these jobs every year, creating good job opportunities.
- Newspapers, online, calling around
- Self-employed people will have to find their own insurance means.
- None
- Casual
- Depends. Your clients have to make sure their children have care, so may find a new provider
- Median annual earnings of wage-and-salary child care workers were $17,630 in May 2006.
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