I had my first prospective mindee around for an interview on Sun - it was awful! I am a well educated woman, I have a daughter and I've been doing school pick-ups/babysitting for a while so I have experience of looking after children and yet I just completely bottled it!
Oh God, I can't even remember most of the stuff I was prattling on about but I know every time I opened my mouth out came something totally ridiculous and not in the least bit confidence giving .
I remember saying that half the time I want a kip mid-afternoon because my daughter can be such a handful. I can't even remember what my answer to 'why did you decide to become a childminder?' was but it certainly wasn't anything like 'ohhh well I love children' or some such derivative, and the fact that I've been contemplating training to become a primary school teacher for the last 4 years didn't even come into my head, what a nutter!!
It was a really good opportunity as well but they're more likely to contact social services and report me than to hire me to look after their LO!
Please tell me that it gets easier, or at least tell me that on the first interview I'm not the only one who came across as a complete idiot that shouldn't be allowed around children let alone look after them for someone else!!