| Education: Loyola Marymount University Junior with a double major in Business and Theater | |
| Childcare Experience: 7 years experience as both a nanny and sitter with children ages 2 months through teen | |
| Other Relevant Experience: lifeguard for 3 summers at a large water-park | |
| Certifications: CPR Certified, First Aid Certified, Lifeguard Certified | |
| Hobbies: riding horses, singing in musical theatre and softball HI!!! I'm Jessie and I've been with University Sitters for about a year now. They asked me to blog on here so everyone could get to know me a little better... I thought it might be fun to write about one of my early experiences as a babysitter. I think that I must have been fourteen at the time. Anyhow, so I had sent out business cards to all the parents at my local swim & racquet club and I got a call to babysit on a Friday night for two girls, ages 5 and 7. I was really excited and showed up at 5 like the mother had asked me to. The 7 year old, let's call her Lily, was sitting on top of the refrigerator! I asked the mother how she had gotten up there and the mother told me that Lily likes to climb up there to sit. After the parent's left I tried to get Lily to climb down to eat some dinner and she wouldn't budge. I wasn't really sure what to do at the time. Lily needed to eat some dinner and I hated seeing her up on the refrigerator like that. So I came up with a plan: I told Lily that her little sister, Gretchen, and I were going to play a super fun game but she could only play if she came down and ate some supper. Lily quickly came down from the refrigerator and ate some dinner. As a treat, we all played a made-up game that I call Bippity-Boppity which consists of a lot of bunny-hopping. Which also got them tired and ready to hop on into bed! |
