WHAT WE PROVIDE FOR YOU AND THE AREAS WE SERVICE: If you are a parent, you’ll want to learn more about how Carolina’s Preferred Sitters will ease your mind and simplify your life. We are here twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, providing experienced, screened and nurturing caregivers for your children. Our periodic and occasional sitters are available for hourly, emergency and sick childcare. Furthermore, our sitters are available to provide childcare for hotel guests or group functions, such as dinner parties and weddings. Our professional staff will happily assist you with placement of full time, part time and temporary nannies at reasonable rates. After selecting one of our nannies, we will provide you with a 90-day trial period where your satisfaction is our guarantee!  Additionally, as a benefit of hiring one of our nannies, Carolina’s Preferred Sitters will offer FREE emergency back up if your nanny is unable to make it to work for any reason. Carolina's Preferred Sitters is based out of the Charlotte, NC area and services all of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County as well as Lincoln, Gaston, Cabarrus, York, Union and Lancaster Counties.

WHO ARE OUR NANNIES AND SITTERS? Carolina’s Preferred Sitters are a group of professional nannies, preschool /day care teachers, early childhood development / education students, nurses, elementary school teachers, grandmothers, mothers and other loving, qualified, trustworthy adults. For periodic or occasional sitting, a telephone or personal introduction may be arranged per your request. We require all of our sitters and nannies to have some form of childcare education or experience. We also strongly recommend for all of our caregivers to have been certified in infant/child CPR and first aid basics For permanent part or full time nanny placement, clients may interview each sitter personally before carefully choosing a selected caregiver for their family. Our current staff ranges from age 18-73 and is very diverse. Some staff members are career nannies or daycare teachers. Other CPS caregivers are college graduates with degrees in Psychology, Sociology, Education or Child Development. Other members of our staff are retired teachers or grandmothers. The one characteristic that is common in all of our sitters is their genuine love for working with children and their enthusiasm to become positive influences in your child’s life!   OUR SCREENING PROCESS: All of Carolina’s Preferred Sitters are screened for your family’s safety and security. You can relax while we do the job of meticulously screening our nannies and sitters for your peace of mind! First, candidates are required to fill out a detailed application. Next, the owner conducts an in depth person to person interview with each candidate. Next, we personally call all of the candidate’s references. The last step is to conduct a criminal background check as well as a driving record check. CAROLINA'S PREFERRED SITTERS AND NANNIES HAS BEEN FEATURED IN "THE CHARLOTTE OBSEVER"  4 TIMES SINCE 2003. THE FOLLOWING ARE LINKS ACCESSED FROM "THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER" AND CHARLOTTE.COM: 1. WHAT TO PAY THE SITTER   - JENNIFER ROTHACKER The holidays are here, sending parents everywhere into a frenzy - to find baby sitters for all those parties. With multiple Friday, Saturday and even Sunday night holiday gatherings, the sitter budget gets hit hard in December. The question is, just how hard a hit should it be? A lot of sitters, especially teens, don't set a rate. It's up to the parent. You don't want to come off cheap and get labeled the worst-paying family in the neighborhood. But you... Published on 2005-12-06, Page 1E, Charlotte Observer, The (NC) 2. BILINGUAL AT A YOUNG AGE - FRANCO ORDONEZ Ask Charlie Lewin in English where his nose is, and he'll stare back at you blankly. But if you ask "donde esta tu nariz?" the 17-month-old will take his teeny right index finger and smush his nose. Mother Laura Lewin beams, explaining that one of his first words was "agua," or "water." Charlie isn't learning all these new words from her, but from the Ecuadoran au pair she hired to help her care... Published on 2005-11-28, Page 1A, Charlotte Observer, The (NC) 3. BUSY PARENTS COURT GOOD BABY SITTERS - LAURA YOUNGS, STAFF WRITER For Steven and Vanessa DeGeorge, to go out to a movie the film must be deemed "baby-sitter worthy." The parents of 7-year-old Nicole, the DeGeorge's are big movie fans, but the cost of a sitter means they don't often treat themselves to the latest flick. "A $6 movie becomes a $50 movie," Steven DeGeorge said. For overworked parents stretched thin for down time, baby sitters are a hot commodity. It's no... Published on 2005-07-04, Page 1D, Charlotte Observer, The (NC) 4. WHEN CHILD CARE BREAKS DOWN - TONY MECIA, STAFF WRITER In her double role as parent and lawyer, Lucy Tate often needed more than day care to watch her infant daughter. When she and her husband traveled simultaneously on business, Tate would hire a baby sitter to watch little Abigail at night. When the day care closed because of bad weather, Tate would briefly take Abigail to her office. "It was very stressful," said Tate, 35, who left her job after her second child was born 16 months ago. "I felt like I... Published on 2003-01-20, Page 10D, Charlotte Observer, The (NC)