Janinne, age 6

“we do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something invaluable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”        ee cummings          Janinne Gardner   Telephone: 202-276-2345 A Temporary Child Care Provider  &  Newborn Care Specialist

   “We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.”  Christopher Morley   

  It is June 2010.  Wow, has the time flown I can’t believe I have been doing this for almost six and a half years. That old adage is certainly true; time does fly when you are having fun. I have provided temporary childcare for so many families in so many places: Potomac, MD,  Arlington, VA; Vienna, VA; Reston, VA; Chantilly, VA; Rockville, MD; Ashburn, VA; Smith Mountain Lake, VA, Scottsdale, AZ; Sanibel, FL; St. Petersburg, FL; Ashville, NC; Nellys Ford, VA, Abbott, ME; Ocean Pines, MD; Crownsville, MD; Duck, NC; New Jersey; Westport, CT; Washington, DC, North Potomac, MD, Silver Spring, MD, Chevy Chase, MD, Alexandria, VA, Bristow, VA,  Oakton, VA, Scottsdale, AZ, and Long Island, NY. Boy do I have a lot of library cards! I will go most any place. I do consider Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC to be my “home area” because I live so close and have lived in this area for a long time.       

         During my childhood I have lived in New Jersey; Kentucky; Maryland. While in Kentucky I had my first babysitting experience this would be about the mid 1970’s, I watched Evan and his little sister.    

Evan and Me about 1977

I graduated high school in Rockville, MD and went away to Frostburg State University where I got a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education. I started substitute teaching in the Montgomery County School system. At the same time I was helping out a newly divorced mother who was going back to work for the first time in years, I would meet the kids after the bus dropped them off and stay with them until she got home. At this time I met another nanny, who became my best friend. She was working as a live-in nanny. It looked like fun so I decided to look into this nanny business. I met a wonderful family through an agency and I was excited. I decided to do this for a year then actively seek a teaching job. Boy was I wrong; I didn’t count on loving this so much. When I started with this family they had one 3 month old baby girl. When I left nine years later she had been joined by two brothers and two sisters. Leaving these kids was the hardest choice I ever made, but I wanted to make a change in my life I moved into temporary child care by accident when word got around that I could fill holes for vacationing nannies. I found that I really enjoyed going to different places, meeting different families, and filling in where I was needed. It was a nice surprise to me when I realized this is a much needed service. When I found other nannies, who also focused on temporary childcare jobs and I was hooked!       

Since then I have been delighted to work with newborn singles and twins, toddlers and preschoolers as well as all elementary ages, a few middle school & a couple of high school boys.      

I have extensive experience as a substitute teacher in two school systems. I loved being their substitute teacher. I have enjoyed not only positions as the regular classroom teacher, but as well as the special education, music, physical education, media center and art teachers. Children have been a part of my life since I was a child and I am proud of my ability to relate to children of every age.  

Gracie & Lanie

My two cats, Gracie and Lanie, and I live in Ocean Pines, a community just outside of Ocean City, Maryland. I bought my house 5½ years ago as a weekend retreat, and moved here permanently about three years ago. I volunteered at Hoof Prints in the Sand, a nonprofit therapeutic riding program in Parsonsburg, MD, where I have learned to ride while working with a wide variety of special needs children and adults. I enjoy being with people especially children.      

Janinne L. Gardner      

“The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.”  Robert Brault      

 
Telephone: 202-276-2345
A Temporary Child Care Provider / Newborn Care Specialist