First and Foremost to me
You Should Be patient as more as you can
yes ,you need ,studying will improve your skills
but you don't have . you can get it by luck if you love kids.
You need a Child Care qualification Level 1 and2.
Here to be a qualfies child minder you need those 2 qualifications but just to be a normal babysitter CPR is a great advantaged and to be trusted and known well by the childs parents is a good thing too. Think it just all depends where you live in what qualifications you need. but the best thing you need to babysit is to be trustworthy and patient with kids.
Well, I don't know about other countries, but in Quebec we need to take a babysitting course, which is about 4 days in length (I'd say 2 hours per day...? Not sure, I forgot). After that, you need a babysitting test which covers all that you learned. Finally, you get a certificate! From the Canadian Red Cross!