to think that people who don't approve of parents who put their children in childcare should not work in a nursery..

Squiffy - just picked up your post - will check city gals - thanks lots Qx

She was a troll.

That's good to hear Hedgewitch. It's nice to hear a positive side to people choosing childcare as a profession rather than supporting the more negative preconception (that some people hold) that it's teenagers with few qualifications etc.

I like to believe that my for the 16 hours my DD is in nursery that she is the staff's favourite baby and that they all take it in turns to cuddle her

I agree re the OP, I've also seen posts where chidlminders choose their profession so that they didnt have to choose childcare as they didnt approve of it!!

I dont think anybody who works in childcare should comment on the hours that parents choose to use childcare for - after all thats what pays their wages. Fair enough to think it but not to actually say it or declare it to other people.

Hey, quattro - there's a japanese tea ceremony on 29th - check out the meet-up threads, called city gals or something similar..

Yes but the OP was a troll.

I find it sad/strange that a nursery nurse can spend all their working life in a profession that they disapprove of. The OP in the other thread wasn't a parent so I'm not even sure why she's on mumsnet , but why do something day in day out that you don't agree with?

(although let's face it - the silly b*tch can't even spell 'receptionist')

My DD goes to nursery 2 days per week and I'm confident that the staff there are doing a great job. I would be mortified if I found out that they were on a parenting website gobbing off about the people who pay their wages!

(roseability, come and talk to me on here, I am Gloria, we can chat privately if you'd like.)

GreenMonkies - I notice that you seem to have followed the attachment parenting method for your children e.g. extended breastfeeding, co-sleeping, babywearing etc

I have a DS aged 2.4 and am ttc number 2. I would really love to parent my next in this way. I had PND with DS and although I didn't leave him to cry and I did BF, I spent a lot of time trying to get him to sleep in his own cot and was too preoccupied with routine. He has turned into a happy little boy but I found it tough.

I have read the Continuum Concept and it really changed my outlook. Sorry if I am changing the subject but I haven't found a parent who has done this who can tell me how it has been.

How does it work with modern living?
Do other people support you?
Did you eldest go into her own bed of her own accord?
Did you bond quicker with them?

I have so many questions and really hope you don't mind me asking!

It's all this time on my hands I've got because I'm not looking after my kids. Stresses me out too much. Pass me a chilled chablis quick.

Look.

If we didn't put our babes in kiddie kennels then:-

1. What would the judges and prison officers do? There'd bo no neglected disfunctional kids growing up into knife-wielding gang-member immigrants for them to bang to rights?
2. Where on earth would the Vicky Pollards get their jobs, if not at the festering flea-pit we call creche?
3. How on earth are the masseurs and boutiques hotels and gyms going to survive without our constant patronage?
4. And those poor gals who give me acryllic nails - how will the survive once the rigours of nappy-changing my offspring cause me to ditch the falsies?
5. Poor DH - how will he cope with only misogynist macho blokes in the workplace and no fragrant working mums to sooth his furrowed brow and go get him his latte, before picking up his dry cleaning and typing his ittle wittle letters for him (this being our primary role as working mums, surely..)?

Gives me a headache just thinking about it all, poppets. Good job I only have myself to think about and not those pesky little pups I pushed out in the delivery suite (well actually, you can skip the pushed bit - far to posh for that obviously)

I think, as long as they do a good job, that is all that matters. Lots of people think differently to the clients/service users but they still do their job in a non judgemental way. AND lots of childcare workers work in nurseries with their own kids in or childmind to be able to look after their kids BECAUSE they feel SAH is best. But as long as they look after the kids, it's irrelevant.

I definitely agree that anyone who starts a thread like the one referred to here should not be working in childcare. I certainly wouldnt want anyone so narrowminded and stupid caring for my kids.
But like most others, I'm convinced it was a troll - in fact I reckon it''s a bored housewife who probably wishes she had a nursery job, so she kind of defeats her own argument!!

i don't think that hedgewitch is implying that, tbh, assuming you meant parents rather than children. quite the opposite, she seemed to me to be saying that spending time with these lovely children they can't help but wonder why the parents wouldn't move heaven and earth to change the situation. and if we're talking 7-6 5 days a week, tbh so would i.