Kia's Reviews

Wonderful, caring person

Kia not only helped my family by providing sensitive and informed care for our 7 month old, but she was also helpful to the whole family because she understood mine and my husbands work-life-balance needs in terms of scheduling and communicating about our childcare. We have used her a number of times and she is always quick to respond, clear, and reliable. This is reassuring and gives us peace of mind! On top of that she is great with our baby, really knows what he needs developmentally and keeps us up to date on how his day was. Its truly wonderful to be able to work with her and I cannot recommend her more highly.

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by Ssolywod on 10/01/2025

Response by Kia on 10/01/2025:

Aw thank you, it’s been so lovely looking after your smiley baby boy!

Kia is amazing!

We have 3.5 year old Emilia & 10 month old Theo.

Kia has been babysitting our eldest since Nov 2022. And nannying our youngest since Jan 2023.

Honestly, she’s great!

She’s got lots of experience working in nurseries & it shows. She’s great with kids of different ages. And she’s given us great advice, like when we were absolutely clueless trying to potty train our eldest. There’s been times when I couldn’t handle looking after both of my own kids at the same time, but she could aha.

She’s also very respectful of our parenting choices (gentle parenting, BLW, cloth nappies, breastfeeding etc.) & happily follows whatever systems/ rules we have.

I remember when Theo was small she took him to the playground, but checked first to see if he’d been on a swing before. If he hadn’t then she’d save that first for us. Just little things like that I find so respectful & kind.

Theo’s got severe eczema & gets contact rashes from food. It’s a lot of extra hard work. Constantly applying creams, long list of foods he can’t eat & things that can’t go on his skin. But Kia is amazing with it. I know he’s in safe hands & I don’t worry about him when he’s with her. (Which is saying a lot! I won’t let anyone in our family have him unsupervised yet. I don’t trust them not to set off his skin).

She’s very hardworking & reliable. I actually can’t think of a time that she’s let us down. If something does come up she’s flexible & gives lots of notice.

She’s done some really lovely activities with the kids (painting, water play, sensory bins etc.) And sent some absolutely gorgeous photos showing what Theo’s been up to.

I’m actually a bit sad that Theo’s starting nursery & she’s dropping back down to just evening babysitting. It’s the end of an era!

She’s a really lovely person & I’d recommend her to anyone.

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by Rob on 20/11/2024

Response by Kia on 20/11/2024:

Thank you so much, really appreciate it! :)

a godsend!

We were in a bind looking for temporary cover after our nanny had to leave a couple of weeks earlier, and by some miracle Kia was free to take care of our 22mo daughter. I know wish I’d found her earlier and offered her a full time role! She is caring, patient, kind and communicative , sending updates throughout the day and photos, as well as a detailed round up of the day’s food, nappies and activities. Our daughter is a tricky napper but Kia has persevered and managed to make her sleep, and we have seen an improvement in her night sleeping too. Our daughter comes home with drawings and new words, and in a period of change and upheaval we couldn’t have found her better care than with Kia. She occasionally has her lovely son Rory with her, which is so good for our daughter’s development and she loves him. I could not recommend Kia highly enough and would certainly think of her first for any future opportunities.

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by KMH on 20/11/2024

Response by Kia on 20/11/2024:

Aww this is so lovely! Thank you so much❤️