Alison, garde d’enfant à Donaghadee

I am an ex teacher; I took early retirement in my late 40s and would like to care for a child part time. I love children and have raised 4 of my own. My qualities as a child carer are those I have shown as a mum: I am loving and kind, consistent and fair in relation to applying rules of behaviour, good manners etc, an excellent communicator with babies and young children, fun-loving and always helping children to learn and develop through talk, play and pointing out the world around them. I believe children need to feel loved and special and so I give them lots of praise and encouragement - positive reinforcement and explanations for rules work for me and I have 4 happy, well-rounded and successful adult children to prove my loving, child centred approach works!