Does anyone use Baby's days software ? Any good ?

what a surprise

NOT

3children - its not a oneoff 'bad day' Mr BD has - he has been rude and offensive on more than one occasion on different forums. He has also been very rude about people. There is no excuse to that.

I am sure Ofsted do 'love' the various linking of planning and the very formalised looking sheets and paperwork - however it should be remembered that NONE of this gives you an outstanding (or shouldn't be anyway) and that is what I object to in part for their advertising.

Just due to the aggressive and rude behaviour I would never use nor recommend (no matter how much Ofsted 'love' it) the product. (besides Oftsted 'love' my handwritten paperwork and they also 'love' my outstanding friends' paperwork - again all handwritten) :)

I absolutely agree, its very bad form and very unprofessional to vent bad days, and equally my parents would never know. Im not trying to make waves, phewee its a scary thing being a first timer on here lol. Seriously tho I do completely understand your trepidation, I am not in anyway offended ! I am an honest to goodness childminder and I only wanted to say how positive my experience was.I cant unfairly judge anyone :)

Agree with BALD. God, I have bad days but my parents would never know it!! Would be very unproffesional to take something out on a parent/mindee, I am far more in control than that :)

Look, 3children, I'm afraid that NO amount of soft-soaping by happy customers can repair the damage done by Mr Babydays on here

And as he has form for coming on in various guises posing as a happy customer I'm sure that you'll understand that your post will be treated with caution by the regular minders here

And as to folk having bad days - well, how very unprofessional for Mr BabyDays to vent his bad days here, a terrible advert for a business, I'm sure

Hi, this is my first time, I dont want to cause any slanging matches or offense but I have to say that I use....shall I just make reference to BD...and I have had my first ofsted inspection and my inspector loved it. Honest to god it saves soooooo much time. Now I wont pre-judge people and I think everyone should take offense at rudeness :) but Im also thinking we all have bad days....maybe he was having one ! I have always had very helpful and positive emails from Mark himself, so I guess I can only speak highly of his time saving and informative system, to do so otherwise would be really unfair. I think like all things, you'll never know unless you try and also different things suit different people :) My parents absolutely love it ! Thats me done lol

'Not sure why you're all so negative' - because he came on here and was really rude and tbh, it's THAT which is stopping me ever trying it!

Okaaaaaaay.

Chabbychic. I think the best way to defend Mark Kahl on here is not to start up any debates about the merits of his software.

If he's lucky this thread will now die a peaceful death having comprehensively answered Summerfruit's question about the product.

I think that would be a more edifying result for all concerned.

I've been on mumsnet for years, not posted a lot recently but you can check my history (even though I've not posted loads under this name).

I've been using babysdays for about 6 months or so. Ofsted LOVED it at my inspection last week - got Outstanding in all areas.

WRT planning - yes it enables you to do planning, but you have to do a certain level of basic planning- I'll plan a couple of things to do a week and leave the rest blank to see what direction the children lead me in.

I can also link the medium term plans to the preschool/reception my mindees attend - Ofsted LOVED that too.

I've met Mark, he drove miles to come to a childminder forum to hear me talk about babydays (with no monetary gain whatsoever for me by the way).

Not sure why you're all so negative. He's trying to run a business and to my mind babysdays saves me hours and my parents love it.

So ner.

very gracious apology, ALison

Summerfruit I apologise unreservedly . I should have checked before I laid into you (except of course it wasn't really you I was laying into).

In my defence it isn't just this forum he comes on pretending to be other people. He makes quite a habit of it and Summerfruit worded her question exactly how he usually does

Thanks to those who explained on my behalf.

I wonder if he will appear in the for-said puff of smoke anyway.

I'll go back to my pre-Christmas stress-out now. Got to tackle Tesco shopping tonight. Oh joy!

There are a couple of similar products on the market if that's all you're looking for. Nobleminder and Purple being just two.

And they answer questions posed to them regarding security, CRB checks and company legality politely and informatively, unlike BD's aggressively rude responses on here.

I can understand Alison's reaction. Mr. BD's mode de employ is to come on here, pretending to be a childminder thinking about using the product, then it all kicks off

Like you summerfruit I was also going to ask this question after getting an e-mail today. After a year struggling day after day with paperwork, it looks like a god-send, but remember issues arising when someone asked a similar question.

agree Summerfruit - I've been wrapping presents non-stop since 9.30 and I've just bitten DH head off as he's been sitting reading the newspapers most of the day.. He's got almost 2 weeks holiday as he's 'working from home' this week and this is my Christmas break as I'm working over the weekend :-(

I think it's definitely sherrytime already today..!

Summerfruit - I wouldn't worry hun, you did absolutely nothing wrong in asking, you wouldn't have known :) I think it's wrong for someone to ASSUME that because this subject was started, it must be an advertising thing :(

And yy Alison, Summerfruit has been here a long time

Summerfruit IIRC the babydays scheme uses monthly/termly topics as opposed to following the children's interests so it is not really suitable for CMs or indeed any Early Years practitioners in England (I can't speak for welsh/scottish CMers)

We have had AWFUL problems in the past with Mr BabyDays coming on here and slagging us off for saying this, so I am expecting him to appear in a puff of smoke very soon

Isn't that a bit harsh or is their something I'm missing.. I'm pretty sure Summerfruit is a CM and although I don't usually find myself in debates concerning child minding, I know she has been posting on here for quite a long time.