CulturalED

Hello, This is a post borne out of guilt. Long story short, my family and I are moving and as such we have had to tell our wonderful childminder that we are leaving in December. The reason why I am posting this is because she was recommended to us initially on this forum, and she is just wonderful. Our boy adores her, as she does him and everyone who has ever sent their little one to her has had nothing but praise. BUT she isn't very good at 'The sell' (I honestly don't think she's ever had to advertise her services) so I feel that I need to help in this instance, given that we have just dumped her in it as it were. So I thought that I would put a post on here in the hope that anyone is looking for a full time position to start from January? She is just a brilliant person, has a large garden in which the children can play, attends a lot of groups with them, plays with, teaches and simply put - our little one has gone from being v shy and a bit of a cryer to being so so happy, outgoing and bright. She has a couple of other part-time children with her but she needs a full time. Maybe a couple. Please let me know if I am posting in the wrong place. But the thought that someone who is so caring and from whom my son has learnt so much and developed so quickly, might be without a full time child from January worries me. Please PM me for her details if you are interested.

Haha busted! This is getting silly. Can't we just block them?

We had to take our child out of there after a number of 'incidents'. Our child has developed a lot faster and is a lot happier since we left there and started going to a childminders instead. (And hasn't had a single accident)....They seem to go through a disproportionate amount of staff which is disruptive for children of that age. You have to remember that they are owned by a larger american firm, which means that if something serious does happen with your child then it becomes very cold and corporate very quickly. This upset us greatly when instead of caring how our child was (which was all we wanted) - we instead received letters and phone calls covering themselves and checking whether we were considering suing. From our personal experience - I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole.