Only 5 weeks to go...

[DimPrawn]

In Swindon it's £45 per day.

[SallyAnne]

I think even in the north east you are looking at 650 a month.

Its fooking expensive, nursery care.

£650 would be the top end of the scale really.

There's a nursery accross from where I work where a lot of the people in the office have kids - 3 & 4's are free.
Under 3's cost about £20 per day.
My mate pays £550 for her 2 year old too, but that one is right in the middle of an industrila estate up here so perfect for loads of people for work (she gets to pop in and see him every couple of hours) - hence the high cost of it.

My best mate is a registered child minder - specialises in under 3's. She has a dedicated room for them all in her house, all full of toys and art equiptment. Does exercise regimes with them. Trips out all planned for the year. Very impressive. She charges £15 per day (which is pretty standard for her region).

But hey...I know nowt


My initial shock (and still shock) is someone paying a grand per month. Especially for the guy in question who was basically paying £2500 on childcare and his ex's flat every month! That's awful - totally trapped. That was my initial post.


Snaw - I dont know who you think you are sunshine. Just cause you're clearly full of your own family guilt and self importance, dont try and say that people can't express their own opinions. This is an internet forum ffs - get a clue

[TheBigD]

I think this threads got a little out of hand.

I can understand your shock at spending close to a grand a month on a nursery, I was exactly the same when I found out how much it cost. But shop around... the prices fluctuate depending on where you live but you won't find many private nurseries for less than £30 a day (as someone said, council nursery places are practically impossible to come by).

If you do find a cheap nursery, check out it's OFSTED report... See what there staff to child ratio is, cleanliness and food hygene, do the children get to go out or are they stuck inside all day every day.

The cheap nurseries are cheap for a reason. I wouldn't book a holiday in a crap hotel just because it was cheap, therefore I certainly wouldn't put my daughter in a crap nursery just to save a few pennies...

[Jubber]

This is a most informative thread - not only the discussion about nursery etc, but the earlier postings.

The number of you coming off contracts with nothing else lined up. Are we now entering the real difficult period? There really is one hell of a lot of people chasing very little work and it looks as though it will get even harder.

Sorry to be a doomer this morning, but it always makes me chuckle when people mention the 'shelf stacking' jobs they will get. Have you seen how many people are applying for those sort of jobs too? You will have a task on your hands to even get an interview.

Take a look at reed and the amount of applications they are getting for local £6 an hour stuff. Depressing.

Still - onwards and upwards !!

[oracleslave]

I certainly wouldn't put my daughter in a crap nursery just to save a few pennies...

I would. Give them the cheap crayons like.

SallyAnne

[tino]

I would. Give them the cheap crayons like.

SallyAnne

[oracleslave]

My best mate is a registered child minder - specialises in under 3's. She has a dedicated room for them all in her house, all full of toys and art equiptment. Does exercise regimes with them. Trips out all planned for the year. Very impressive. She charges £15 per day (which is pretty standard for her region).

But hey...I know nowt

My wife is a child minder and almost charges your mates day rate per kid per hour.

[Ivor Bigun]

Pro's and cons.

I notice with friends kids who don't go to nursery they're less socially developed, usually a bit more timid - but sometimes a bit too selfish (All kids are to some degree, sometimes though it can get a bit much).

Some nursery kids can be a bit more aggro, maybe because they have to be.

They might even learn to spell and type properly

Wow! you must be really isolated from the "day to day" of raising children if you come to this sweeping statement.
Put it this way, Have you ever gone to playgroup meetings with other mums?
Have you ever spent real time with your children? and no I don't mean taking them to third party "events" like cinemas etc. I mean building sandcastles together, playing lego together, riding bikes together. Teaching (talking to)them on how to behave and respect themselves and others. I suspect that your parents had no time for you and thats why you think nothing of it yourself.

End of the day it's personal choice, there are studies done that counter the common myth that nurseries are bad, full time mums are good. It's more to do with the quality of the environment they grow up in, than who's with them x.y.z of the time.

You're absolutely right. In your case its probably best that other people look after your children.
However, if you want to stop being inept at looking after their emotional welbeing, maybe you should try to see your children as people, part of your flesh and blood......and not as one of your possesions or "things".

Flame me all you wish - but you know I'm right. Deal with it before its too late and you miss out on your own personal journey of child rearing.
Snaw, Grow up

[SallyAnne]

My wife is a child minder and almost charges your mates day rate per kid per hour....in Reading

Do you see the difference?

I was SHOCKED at how much some people are paying.

Not disgusted. Not judgemental. Shocked.

[snaw]

Snaw - I dont know who you think you are sunshine. Just cause you're clearly full of your own family guilt and self importance, dont try and say that people can't express their own opinions. This is an internet forum ffs - get a clue

I'm someone who's got kids, who knows first hand about sending kids to nurseries and the costs (And what the cheap ones look like inside and the quality fop care they offer) , and who's happy with that.

No guilt on my part, and not sure where you extrapolate self importance from me responding to your comments on people paying for nursery.

I'm giving my opinion, like you and part of that is that when it comes to other people's choices on childcare they're free to do as they choose. I won't comment on that choice, I've only responded to your criticism of someone's else's choosing to do so. There's a difference.