The creche come children's club at Bluewater shopping centre has amended their intake age. Now 8 years old is the oldest they take. Previously the junior club used to take children up to 12 years old. This was a godsend for me - a working mum, only able to shop at weekends, I could put both the toddler and the older boy in the club for a couple of hours while I whizzed around the shops. I will not have a problem this year since I am a SHAM so can shop during school hours and my son is only 8. But what about those poor parents who have children aged 9 and over, work full time, go to the shops at weekends and have christmas shopping to think about?
Now I do leave my son for the odd half hour alone in the cinema at Bleuwater if he's into the film and I am not. But I can't imagine leaving him alone for a couple of hours in a years time. Or letting him wander around Bluewater with five pounds in his pocket to buy snacks with instructions to meet me somewhere in two hours time.
Just wondered what the Bluewater management are thinking about here.
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What do you do with a 9 year old at Bluewater?
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tigermoth · 23/10/2002 19:13
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