Fearn

We cannot recommend Fearn highly enough

Fearn has been our nanny since September 2023 and is due to finish with us in December 2024. We can't recommend her enough and she'll be a great addition to your family.

Fearn started working with us when our daughter was 9 months old, and will be with us until she is just over 2 years old. We had originally planned to put our daughter in nursery from 1 year old but had to abruptly change our plans and find a nanny due to my wife's health situation.

Fearn was eager to help us all out, she came across as not just a loving and skilled nanny but also someone that would fit in with our whole family, support us all and knowing how to care for and encourage not just our daughter but the whole family.

As a nanny, Fearn was great in the baby stage having cared for many babies before, helping us as new parents with doubts and questions and making us feel fully reassured that our daughter was always safe with her. She has been proactive in finding play groups, activities and places for them to go to so that our daughter gets plenty of stimulation and a variety of experiences. She's also helped both her physical and mental development, knowing when to encourage her to push through the milestones and recognising when the new parents were getting ahead of themselves. She has been particularly great at communicating with our daughter, talking with her every day and encouraging her speech. She is very communicative now and we recognise many of the words and phrases Fearn teaches her, which is great fun.

As well as seeing them together in our house, many parents and caregivers have proactively told us how happy our daughter seems to be with Fearn when they see them out in play groups - which is great to hear and confirms what we know.

As our daughter has gotten older Fearn has also been good at taking her a little further afield to museums, urban farms and play dates with other kids in the park or their homes.

She's a great cook and has a few dishes that our daughter loves and helped in the weaning stage for her to try some new things. She's always been reliable, easy to communicate with and neat in our home, always leaving things tidier than she found them.

We strongly recommend her as a nanny and hope we will continue to see her for babysitting as our daughter and her have a lovely bond

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by Tomas about Fearn on 27/09/2024

The best nanny!

We had Fearn as our nanny for our son from when he was 8 months old until he was about 2.5 years old. She was absolutely amazing and a true part of the family during this time; we always felt confident that our son was in the best care when he was with her. The only reason we have stopped working with her is that it was time for our son to move full-time into nursery.

Fearn is a creative and engaging caregiver who kept our son intellectually and physically engaged in activities inside the house (like reading, painting, playing) and outside the house (including play groups, trips to the park, and music classes). She cooked him home-cooked meals, which were nutritious and varied, and was very diligent in making sure he was well-rested and napping appropriately for his age. She also made a huge effort to speak to him all the time, which really helped with his language development. She was very loving, warm, and affectionate with our son and they were really bonded from a very early stage - he still continues to ask about her today and misses her often, which shows how attached he was to her, and he is thrilled every time he gets to see her when she babysits!

Aside from her caregiving, she was also highly flexible, accommodating, super punctual, and was willing to work around our schedule and provide extra cover if we needed. She was never late to work, rarely sick, and we always felt like we could rely on her to help us out when we needed, and she would go above and beyond to make things work when we required extra help.

Finally, we also knew that she was taking the utmost care with him when they were out of the house; she was watching him carefully in any external situations, particularly around other adults, and we knew he was in safe hands when he was with her.

We highly recommend Fearn to any family looking for a nanny. She is a truly exceptional caregiver who will love your child as much as you do.

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by NAM about Fearn on 23/08/2023

The best nanny, highly recommended!

Fearn came to our family in October 2019, when our daughter was 9 months old. She put children's happiness and safety as the priority, which contributed hugely to our daughter's character. Thanks for Fearn's caring, our daughter becomes a happy and confident pre schooler! The nearly 30 years' experience makes Fearn is familiar with the different desires and needs at different stages. At the first few months, she took our daughter to different baby music classes and soft play; when she turned older, Fearn registered more educated music class like Sparkysons and some other activities, to let her get involved to outside world and different groups of children. She read a lot to my daughter, very often I saw they were sitting together reading for hours! I am super glad that our daughter has good reading pattern which was introduced by Fearn. When our daughter went to the nursery, Fearn still looked after her two days a week. She helped our daughter to go through the settle period smoothly. She concerned about our daughter from her deep heart, she could identify the early indication of the mood change of our daughter. Once she expressed her concern about our daughter's attitude to the nursery, which pushed us to have a proper conversation and following up with the nursery, helped our daughter to overcome the difficulty time.
Fearn cooks very well. She pays good attention on the variety and nutrition of the food cooked for the little one. And these nutritious food are also tasty!
During the 2 years and 3 months she looked after our daughter, Fearn was never late, which was amazing! She also understood the pressure of being new parents, she helped me a lot to smooth my emotions. That's why we still keep communication frequently.
It was a heart breaking moment when our daughter knew Fearn was going to leave due to family reason. Few months thereafter, the little one still sometimes woke up in the middle night, crying "I miss Fearny......"
When I look back, we were very lucky to get such an amazing nanny. Our daughter's bright and happy character is partially shaped by her, which we always feel grateful!
If you have any further question, welcome to contact me. Fearn has my number. I am also more than happy to issue official reference letter if it's needed.

Lingling

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by Lingling about Fearn on 26/09/2022

Amazing nanny, highly recommended

We have had the pleasure of employing Fearn as a nanny for our daughter since March 2017. At the time Fearn started with us, our daughter was 8 months old and she is now 26 months. During that time, Fearn has worked either 4 or 5 days a week from 8am to 6pm - and often a little later. As I’m due to go on maternity leave, we’re sadly parting company with Fearn.

Fearn has had sole care for our daughter - as both my husband and I work full time. She has been responsible for ensuring our daughter is well fed three times a day; she takes her to a variety of classes and activities (many recommended by Fearn herself - as she has a great knowledge of them); goes on play dates with other children and nannies that she knows as well as doing activities with her at home. In addition, she always cleans up after our daughter and ensures that she always has clean clothes. In short - we will miss her a lot!

I would highly recommend Fearn as a nanny. She had built a great relationship with our daughter, who adores her - and she has become part of our family over the last 18 months. She has a very natural way with children and having had so much experience with looking after them, I’ve found her to be very knowledgeable and confident in her ability which further reinforces the ease children have around her. She is warm and loving to our daughter, ensures she is always active and engaged - with a variety of classes and activities (reading, playing in the park, going to libraries, museums and farms) and ensures she gives our daughter a variety of things to do as well as nurturing our daughter’s interests. We always come home to a happy girl and never have any issues leaving in the morning as she’s always very happy to see Fearn and looks forward to her days with her. As a parent, it’s always tough seeing your child ill but I’ve always been so relieved to know that she’s had Fearn to comfort her as she’s very loving and takes her to the doctor when needed. This is our first child and as such, I’m sure we exhibit classic first-time parent neurosis but Fearn has been very understanding - she has taken on board and fulfilled our wishes regarding her care. She has been patient both with our daughter and ourselves! Fearn is always incredibly punctual and reliable but on the other hand also flexible with staying later and covering extra hours when we require her to do so - including babysitting, getting her ready and then putting our daughter to bed.

Another family are going to be very lucky to have Fearn.

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by Lisa about Fearn on 04/10/2018

Amazing nanny - highly recommend

Fearn has been looking after our three children for the last three years – covering ages from newborn to 6. I would not hesitate to employ her again and highly recommend her.

Fearn has become part of our family and we are going to be very sorry when she leaves (only because our youngest has started nursery and Fearn would like longer hours than we can offer).

Fearn is warm, kind and brilliant with our children who absolutely adore her. She takes them to local groups and makes it her business to know which are the best ones. She takes them on trips and makes up activities for them – both after school and in the holidays. She organizes playdates and is well known in the area with the local nannies and parents. She is incredibly responsible and trustworthy and always has the children’s wellbeing and safety at the front of her mind.

In the house, she makes lovely meals for the children, does their laundry and keeps their rooms tidy and clean. She is a very tidy and organized person. She is very flexible and welcomes additional babysitting.

On top of all of this, we have thrown a huge curve ball at Fearn in that she started working for us to allow me to work almost full time. About a month into her employment, our eldest son was diagnosed with cancer and I stopped working. Throughout our son’s illness, she has been the most extraordinary support for our whole family – looking after the other children whilst we were in hospital and making sure life continued as normal for them as well as taking on duties well beyond her role to look after a very poorly little boy. Thankfully treatment has now finished and for the last year, Fearn’s role has returned to supporting me whilst I work again.

We will miss her terribly. Another family will be very lucky to have her in their lives. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you want any more information.

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by Parent about Fearn on 20/01/2017