European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse American Nanny pal Hitlan 3s, with her sew Mon Voltl Niece Toft and sync a Evan Dibina. . Nannies average so Hau in demand from coast to coast at 10� by Tara Bladley Steck associated Pressa after 10 years of toiling m a Pittsburgh Bank. Pat Neelan two years ago became a Mary Poppins. She s now a Nanny sans umbrella. Tha Best part of the Job is the baby does t care if you come in a pin Stripe suit says Noelan. 32, of suburban Allison Park. They just wan you to love them and care for them. And there Are pares. How Many limes in a Job does your Boss hug you Neelan and her colleagues Are challenging the traditional image of a dour English woman in a starched uniform who forces cod liver Oil Down a crying toddler s Chroal and keeps her distance irom he rest of the family american nannies Are mostly Young Active women some with College degrees who Wear jeans and sweat shirts and Are ire aled As a port of the family. Today s nannies a Lew of whom Are men Are trained in such subjects As the health and safety of children child development and child psychology. They often bring added skills in music literature sports or languages to the Job. Many have Lefi jobs As nurses or Day care con or workers some just recently graduated from High school while others Are mothers or grandmothers regardless of their backgrounds they command Al least $5 an hour for their sen ices which they insist do nol include housework unrelated to the child. Both live in and Day nannies average $200 to i250 a week bul they May be paid As much As $400, depending on he location and their education and experience in addition nannies usually receive Heath care benefits n in or a car allowance and two weeks paid vacation and personal Days according to Vicki Van Slee House of the american Council of Nanny schools. It s to the advantage of the family to have a Happy Nanny says Steen House who is also the coordinator of the Nanny training program at Delta College in University can scr. Mich the first american College to train nannies. Ii it All sounds a Lille sleep there Are about 100 potential employers for every trained Nanny who Are Only Loo willing to pay the Price she said newspaper advertisements seeking nannies have become common families Are desperate. They need somebody and they need somebody fight away says Leslie Barlok of Page 16 the stars and stripes Community College of Allegheny county in pills Burgh which has been deluged with Calls from people wanting nannies since it began a training program last september. The demand Lor nannies is nationwide says Gloria Meyer the coordinator of the Nanny training program at Seallie Central Community College we re just overwhelmed with people asking Lor nannies. We re gelling them from aft Over the United states Michigan new Jersey South Sherri Bruno a 30-Yoar-old Light attendant trom suburban Pittsburgh has been searching or six months for a Nanny who will care for her iwo infants about three Days & week 24 hours a Day while she and her husband Tony an airline Pilot Are away on flights. In addition to the $175 weekly salary the Bunos Are offering an incentive they la pay the student s $1,000 tuition to Nanny school. My whole future depends on this Bruno says. My Mother works and Tony s pain is live in Philadelphia. So i Don t have any relatives around who can help the baby Sitter took my son on a Rainy january night to a pro file rally and did t Tell me about she says i started looking for a Nanny the Day after the rally. I decided i wanted someone who is trained so i could have peace of Bruno says she wants a person who likes infants of and it has to be someone who can speak English Well and who is Well read. Tony graduated from College and i did too and we expect our children logo to in his age of Well educated two income couples the group most in demand of nannies the brunos expectations Are nol unusual educators say. The families look Lor Good grammar experience with children knowing Aboul what is needed to Foster children s development Art activities children s literature music in Many ways they want almost a teacher in addition to Basic child care says Cathy Stechschulte. Director of the Nanny program at Community College of Allegheny county. Baby Sitters usually Are nol trained in child care and development. Day care censers usually have limited hours and often do not accept infants or sick children Stechschulte says nannies Are better Titan Day care she says. They re consistent and that s one of the most important things in child a Nanny is the Best present you can give your child says Deborah Davis of Pomona calif., a child development educator who publishes the National saturday August 9,1986 Nanny for her own children. It s someone who is ully committed to paying attention to if you can find one thai is. All care givers from nannies to Day care centers to baby Sitters Are Al a Premium nowadays As More and More mothers join the work Force. The pressure on the infant Market especially is says Amy Wilkins of Tho children s defense fund in Washington . In 1985 about 45 percent of american married women Wilh children less than 1-year-old worked outside the Home according to Howard Hagho of the . Bureau of labor statistics. In addition about 44 percent of All married women with children less than 3 years old and almost 48 percent Wilh children under 6 worked outside the Home. Those figures represent about a 50 percent jump Over 1975, he says. Hayghe says there Are about 8.6 million preschoolers the group most in need of child care whose mothers work there s just a crying need for child care. Parents Ere having to Settle for less than what they could have dual because we Don t have enough people to fill the demand Steen House says. Schools and colleges sensing the growing Pool of working mothers have been jumping on the Nanny bandwagon although there still is no National Standard or certification process for nannies. In the 19b4-85 school year Only iwo colleges trained nannies this past year there Are Well Over two dozen and More colleges plan Load a Nanny program to their curricula. In addition dozens of private employment and placement agencies which were the first to train nannies in this country have also appeared in recent years. But their problems Mirror those of prospective employers too few students. Several colleges and agencies have folded their programs As a result. Everybody wants to have a Nanny but no one wants to be one says Community College s Bartok you really have to recruit and recruit and child care educators say part of the problem lies with the traditional Low pay and poor image Given who work with children. Up until a Lew years ago. This was not l Uhle occupation for american men and a noun Steen House says. It s Only by polling information out thai you can make $200 a week plus benefits that people have realized i hey can make a living being a
