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For You

What You Carry

Ten questions, and every answer stays in your own words.

Answer in your own words. Skip any of them. However you would say it out loud is exactly right.

1 of 10

What is your name, and what would you like to be called?

Whatever a house would call out down a hallway.

2 of 10

What is a skill you have used your whole life without realising it was a skill?

Most women shrug at this one. Sit with it a moment. It is usually what is most valuable about you.

3 of 10

What do people thank you for most often?

The small ones count. Especially the small ones.

4 of 10

What do you love about being around children?

Say it the way you would say it to a friend.

5 of 10

What does a good day with a family look like to you?

From walking in to walking out.

6 of 10

When are you free?

Days, evenings, a Friday night, at short notice. However it truly is.

7 of 10

How would you like families to find you?

Choose as many as suit you, and change any of them on any morning.

8 of 10

Would you come to a child who is unwell?

A temperature on a Tuesday, when a parent cannot move a meeting and the centre has sent them home. Either answer is a good one, it is yours alone, and your answer is all we keep.

9 of 10

What would you like a family to know about you?

This is the one they will read first.

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And where are you?

Your suburb and postcode, so families near you can find you.

Your Understanding

What I Bring Through The Door

Your half of it. What a family can count on, in your own words.

Nobody has a crystal ball. This is where the the true ones get said, so nobody has to guess at them later.

1 of 6 · Your Understanding

What do you bring into a house?

Calm, or noise and laughter, or somewhere between. There is no right answer and every Mima is her own woman.

2 of 6 · Your Understanding

How do you handle a hard moment with a child?

The four-year-old at half past five. The teenager who says he is fine.

3 of 6 · Your Understanding

What have you learnt about children that most people find out too late?

Fifty years of watching it happen. Say the thing you know.

4 of 6 · Your Understanding

What do you need from a family?

Say it plainly. A family cannot give you what nobody has told them about, and asking is not a burden.

5 of 6 · Your Understanding

What would you want said if something went wrong?

How you would like to be told, so nobody has to invent it in a difficult moment.

6 of 6 · Your Understanding

What can a family count on from you, always?

The one you would still keep on a bad week.

That is all of it.

Your words are kept exactly as you wrote them. They arrive with a family exactly as you set them down.