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Dancing Girl
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This latest announcement does not make any sense. If you insist that the staff working in nurseries and in childcare are better qualified that means that they will expect to be paid more. How can you pay someone six pounds as a nursery worker and yet the parents pay hundreds of pounds to the nursery!! Just like homes for the elderly, they are run for profit and the staff are usually inadequately qualified, or not qualifed at all and paid rubbish. I cannot see allowing staff to be responsible for more children or getting better qualification will help hard-pressed parents who are desperate to find affordable childcare!
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Also the children will not get as much attention as now she will have double the amount of babies to bottle feed and nappy change .
There will also be a health and safety issue with the mixed ages It's very worrying how they can make such big decisions whilst having no clue about how things work in a nursery.
Some child are providers do pay their staff well, I know personally a nursery nurse who earns £20k!
I am a childminder and dont plan on taking on extra children as i am full at the moment with 6 in total and that is hard going enough! Taking on extra would lead to a drop in the quality of care i could provide for them and I am not willing to do that and i dont believe the existing parents would be happy with that either.
Also, how can a childminder taking on extra children lead to a drop in cost for the parents? I certainly wouldnt lower my fees because i had more children, more work for less money, I dont think so!
How can you possibly look after after 6 two to three year holds having to observe, play ,comfort and toilet train ,teach and love them all at the same time. I cannot see any parent wanting their child to have less time with there teacher .
But not every mother feels the same. The parents of the children I mind have worked hard to build their careers and wouldn't want to stay at home with their children - and im not just saying that - they have told me that! I love working with children and provide a high standard of care for them while they are working so works out well for all parties.
Each to their own though, I wouldn't criticise anyone for their choices!
I'd not thought about that and I'd say it would be impossible :mad:
Therein lies the problem. Why did they have them then?
I had a good job before I had children. My husband earns an average wage. Before we decided to have children we moved to a less expensive area so that I would be able to stay at home and look after my children once they came.
Fast forward 6 years and my youngest will be 3 in March and I will go back to work.
How have we done it? No abroad holidays in 6 years, one bog standard car, hardly any nights out but friends round for drinks etc, really thinking about whether we REALLY need things before we buy them. Its the way generations in the past used to to look at life.
It can be done, but too many parents are more concerned with maintaining "their lifestyle" once children come.
I'm all for staying at home but some people have worked very hard and taking x years out can be really damaging to a career that may have to continue until death.
So its OK then to put a month old baby in a nursery from 7-7 5 days a week because Mummy has worked jolly hard to get where she is today you know !
(used to work in Media Sales, saw it happen again and again and vowed that I would never turn into one of those women)
Everyone's got to chip in you know!
As a medical student, I cannot foresee doing my 6 year degree and apx 10 year speciality training, then leaving medicine to look after children full-time. Personally, I don't think that's a selfish attitude.
I'm one of "those women" - I went back to work part time when my daughter was 6 months, and full time when she was 12 months.. and at this stage she went into nursery full-time.
She's in Y2 now at primary school, happy, confident, well-adjusted. Didn't do her any harm. The nursery staff were wonderful with her, and TBH did much more with her than would have done.
My Nephew is the same age, he is also happy, confident and well adjusted... and my sister in law stayed at home full time.
I went back to work because I wanted to, not because I had to.
You know what, lots of "chav" kids have parents who stay at home full-time, doesn't make them well brought it.
Quality care, consitency, and love in whatever setting is the most important thing.
All depends on what you value the most.
Some nurseries may be wonderful establishments, but you cannot expect them to love your child (no matter how high the fees may be)[/QUOTE]
No, they did love her. I was there, and saw the relationship.
My youngest was with her childminder from 3 months old (that was the limit of maternity leave then) and she used to call her mum. It never upset me as it meant she was happy there. She was one of the family and still goes to visit now (she's 17). She did go after school until she was 12!
I consider myself very lucky to have the best childminder I could have had.
I personally wouldn't but to be honest it's not wrong, it's just not how I would raise my child.
There are plenty of things in the world of parenting I do not or would not do.
Agreed....but that's never going to happen. Taking away child benefit isn't helping either