How early childhood educators differ from babysitters?

1. Early childhood educators have a degree and certification to teach children. Babysitters on the other hand just watch children while the parents go to work, etc.

2. Early child care educators have to get their 45 hours through DCF to work with children in a child care setting, also many of them have degrees whether it's a AS, AA, bachelor’s even master’s degrees, baby sitters occasionally might have schooling, etc.

3. Early child care educators especially at head start have extensive training on active supervision, sanitizing and disinfecting toys in the classroom, as well as training on assessments and lesson plans. Babysitters are not the same.

4. Early childhood educators are paid very well according to our degrees, training and experience. Babysitters get paid according to the parent or an hourly rate.

5. Early child care Educators have the tools and experience to teach children at young ages developmentally appropriate and age appropriate skills in areas of physical, fine motor, cognitive, social emotional, language, literacy, mathematics, for each age level and help them have the tools for later success in their school careers.