• Create a stimulating, nurturing, and safe environment for the children
• Supervise the children’s activities at all times
• Plan and prepare meals and bottles for, and feed, the children
• Dress the children
• Place the children down for naps and bedtime
• Bathe the children
• Change diapers
• Potty train the children
• Perform housework related to child care, including washing the children’s clothes, cleaning up after meals, tidying play areas, and washing bottles
• Teach the children good social manners
• Play with the children, both indoors and outdoors
• Plan and lead educational activities, including reading, with the children
• Discipline the children, when necessary
• Administer medicine to the children
• Is qualified and/or experienced. They have attended a course studying all aspects of childcare from birth.
• Capable of sole charge and using own initiative in absence of parents.
• Does not do housework unless it is with regard to the children.
• May live in or live out.
• Takes meals with the children when on duty.
• Organises and carries out the children’s daily routines.
• Promotes a happy, loving and stimulating environment.
• Ad-hoc duties , e.g. Grocery shopping, taking children to and from school, the doctor, the dentist, library, any extra mural activities, birthday parties , paying bills, menu planning etc.