24-Year-Old Quits Teaching for Unique Job Inside Disney Parks: 'So Up My Alley' (Exclusive)

Since her freshman year of college, Megan Lewis has cared for more than 100 families, but not in the typical at-home way.

While studying early childhood education at the University of Central Florida, the Fort Lauderdale native found a way to combine her two favorite things — kids and theme parks — into a unique career as a “theme park nanny.”

What began as a side job quickly grew into something bigger. With more than a decade of babysitting and daycare experience — including time at the preschool she once attended — Lewis, now 24, decided this summer to launch her own company: Dreamland Nannies.

“I’m not one of those people who has to buy every piece of Disney merch like my friends,” Lewis tells PEOPLE exclusively with a laugh. “But when I first heard about theme park nannies, I thought, this is so up my alley. I love kids, and I love the parks.”