10 questions from the 5 lessons in this badge. You need every one right, and you can try as many times as you like.
Step 1 of 10
1Decide
A parent looks you up. Which of these would actually worry them?
Yes. The bio is a school, a year and an open door, all in one line. The parent is not worried about you. They are worried about who else has read it, and they will wonder whether you noticed.
Look again. There is nothing wrong with a trophy or a cake, and a parent would rather like both. The question is not whether you look nice. It is who can find you, and one of those three tells a stranger exactly where.
Pick the right one to carry on.
2Find them
Which of these should a hiring parent not be able to find?
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3Decide
Which experience line belongs on the page?
That one. Age, how often, how long, what you did. A parent can picture the Sunday. If they wanted to, they could ask the cousins’ mum, and that is the whole point of writing it that way.
Not that one. It might be true, and it is still just words about yourself. The test for every line is: could a parent check it with one phone call? Put in the who, the age, the how often and the what.
Pick the right one to carry on.
4Find them
Which of these belong on the page?
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5Decide
A message from a number you do not know asks you to sit on Friday. What do you do?
Right. It might be a real family and a good job, and now your parent can find out. If it is real, nobody minds talking to a sitter’s mum. If it is not, your parent was the right person to find that out.
Not quite. Saying yes puts you in a stranger’s house on Friday with nothing checked. Ignoring it throws away what might be a real job. The middle path is to hand it to a parent, because the checking is the bit you cannot do from a phone.
Pick the right one to carry on.
6Find them
Which of these are leads you would take to a parent as a real option?
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7Decide
The parent says: oh go on, the baby will be asleep, you'll be fine. What do you say?
Right. Same words as the first time, which is the whole trick. Notice the parent was not being unkind. They were being persuasive, and persuasive is exactly when the sentence earns its keep.
Think again. Going along with it puts a one-year-old in the care of someone who has not learned babies yet, which is not what the parent actually wants either. Going quiet leaves them without a sitter and you feeling bad. The plain sentence, repeated, is the kind option.
Pick the right one to carry on.
8Find them
Which of these are reasons to say no to a job?
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9Decide
The parent asks what you charge. Which is the answer?
That one. And the full stop is the part you practised. A parent hears a clear number as a sign you have done this before, even if you have not. Nobody has ever been turned down for saying a price plainly.
Not that one. Handing the number to the parent feels polite, and it means you will be paid whatever they happened to have in their pocket. A price is a fact you say once. Number, full stop, then let them answer.
Pick the right one to carry on.
10Find them
Which of these should be settled before the job, not at the door?
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