Childcare in general

I have to work and have no choice but to use childcare. My eldest child is three and went to Nursery aged 15 months she began in the January and ended in that September and all I can say is it was the longest 8 months of my life the nursery was to into routine and order for us it wasn't the right environment. In September she began playgroup without a backward glance and loves every minute and I believe if given the choice would go everyday! Last week my husband was woken at 6am to be advised that it was breakfast time and to get up and she was fully dressed! I am often jealous of the playgroup staff as she is totally besotted, however it ...  Read the complete review

Childcare is big business. I live in a small town but even I can name three nurseries within a short drive and half a dozen at least in the area and my youngest is 17 years old so way beyond the nursery stage. Childcare is also expensive, even with vouchers, which are money saving as you can pay for them out of your gross salary. My two grandsons go to nursery three days per week and it costs over £700 per month. When you add the costs of transport, working clothes, lunches etc it makes it difficult for a young mum to actually make much from working. Step up to the mark granny. Yes I provide free child care two days per week, me and a whole army of ...  Read the complete review

As every parent knows, the formative years of our children's lives, are when we need to protect them most, the years when they have neither the understanding nor the means to fully protect themselves from the everyday dangers that face us all and in particular, the issue of skin cancer and suncream. Now like me, you have all probably read or heard the reports in the media relating to the effects of the suns u. v rays on our skin and especially our children's skin, and also like me, i imagine that all parents who have heard of these have been suitably worried and taken the reported precautions of providing high factor suncream for our children to be ...  Read the complete review

My husband has a good(ish) job, but we could always do with a bit of extra cash, especially at the end of the month, so that is why I looked into getting a job, but the cost of getting my daughter cared for by a proffesional is more than we can afford, and it really wouldn't be worth me working. In my area (Derbyshire) the government have a scheme that says all 3 year olds get a free nursery place, weather it be at a private nursery or a council run one, for 2.5 hours every day. Yes this does help those that work, but at the nursery my daughter attends for her free 2.5 hours it would still cost £24 for a whole day (8.30am-5.30pm), I would have to have a ...  Read the complete review

Eavesdrop on two working moms at lunch, on a plane, even in a boardroom between meetings. Chances are they'll be comparing notes on child care. At a time when 40 percent of women in the workforce have children under the age of eighteen and more mothers of young children work than don't, the need for good, dependable day care is critical. I think that without trustworthy day care, working parents (such as myself) aren't productive. According to a 1999 study by the Families and Work Institute, 26 percent of employees with kids under thirteen have had child care problems in a three month period. Such difficulties translate into ineficiency, ...  Read the complete review