Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Paid childcare

Discuss everything related to paid childcare here, including childminders, nannies, nurseries and au pairs.

Original poster

Childminders with no mindees - lets all be lonely together!

183 replies

mumnosbest · 16/10/2008 21:10

I'm a minder with no mindees. I keep reading threads by others in the same boat and thought why don't we all kill our spare time and have a moan together. You never know we might even get the odd parent looking and be 'childless' no more!

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
pinky51 · 28/10/2008 08:47

Hi all, I have one vacancy, I do have a little boy I mind 3 days a week, and want to take on another for the same days, so I can work hard for those 3 days then have the weekend off, I have been relying on the family infolink but nothing coming from that, so I will try the poster idea in my car, good idea, and cards in post office and toddler groups, or just hand out at toddler groups,hopeful to fill by xmas if I can, hey ho raining again...

Original poster
mumnosbest · 27/10/2008 23:27

thanx for the support missymoo. love the name, that's what we 'lovingly' call my 1yr ol dd, no idea why . I will try that 've stuck posters everywhere else so why not!

OP posts:
missymoo2411 · 27/10/2008 21:36

hi guys im a registered minder in leeds and i went through a faze of no mindees i did a really basic poster and stuck it up in my car window and within two weeks i was getting phone calls but i have left it up too try it its amazing that it works as people look as they think the car is for sale ... and also if u can get a small group together u can pass them too each other thats what we have done and we are all full come minders work together and good luck..ellex

Original poster
mumnosbest · 27/10/2008 19:40

Hi TZ stick with us, we can all sulk together.
leonifay. There's a list of accronyms at top of this page, next to useful stuff. The list goes on for ever! Can help you with some:dd=dear daughter, ds= dear son,dp/dh=dear partner/husband, lo=little one. Took me ages to find the list too, every time you think you've cracked it they throw another in!
I love these halloween smileys!

OP posts:
TZ · 27/10/2008 18:15

Hi Just started out and have been advertising for 3 months with not a sing1e enquiry its driving me mad!!

leonifay · 27/10/2008 16:18

yeah, my husbands getting the same. i see this look on his face when he gets up for work at 5am, it just screams, why do i have to work and you dont. bless him!!
can i ask a really random question??? what does dd, dc, dp, dh, ds, lo, and all these other leters that people keep putting on mean???? just when i think i'm starting to understand a random one comes out of nowhere!!!

Original poster
mumnosbest · 26/10/2008 18:13

Ye fingers and toes but I'm quite enjoying my free time now (when ds is at nursery and dd is asleep). Still I don't think dh will be too pleased if I'm unemployed too much longer ... or the bank manager, BT, British Gas, Waterboard.....etc.

OP posts:
leonifay · 26/10/2008 18:05

you never know, during the half term the calls could start flodding in. i guess we could keep our fingers crossed

Original poster
mumnosbest · 26/10/2008 18:01

HAPPY HALF TERM!!! I now have an orange ds, orang dd and sticky orange table... we've been carving pumpkins! 1 good thing with having no mindees, imagine the mess with one more pair of hands

OP posts:
Original poster
mumnosbest · 24/10/2008 13:17

Ah another day and still no calls Maybe mums/dads are waiting till the weekend to start ringing round but not holding my breath! Still I'm gonna make the most of my free time with my own 2 LO's. Hope some of yoou are having more luck!

OP posts:
Original poster
mumnosbest · 24/10/2008 00:16

Ah Ripeberry, sods law! Registrations a pain aint it,sooooooooooo sloooooow! Send those parents our way. Seems some parts of the country are crying out for CM's just not the parts we all live in

OP posts:
Ripeberry · 23/10/2008 16:59

I've got the opposite problem. I'm still in the process of registering (not sent forms off yet) and i've had 3 enquiries in as many days from the local pre-school.
It would just be my luck that by the time i've got my registration certificate they would have found and settled with other childminders.
It never rains but it pours . Problem is that they all need childminders now.
Why can't i just get one that wants to start in January?

Original poster
mumnosbest · 23/10/2008 15:34

Hi leonifay. Our little group is growing! Maybe you'll have some luck at finding a mum in need here. Fingers crossed!

OP posts:
leonifay · 23/10/2008 15:06

hi all, i'm a childless childminder too...i've just started out and just started advertising.
and i know what mumsnobest means by lack of routine, i'm literallygoing crazy!!
if any parents out there is looking for a childminder in B65 please let me know.

Original poster
mumnosbest · 23/10/2008 11:38

thanx for tip lilyloo. got some ads at ds's school so hoping some1 will see them

OP posts:
Original poster
mumnosbest · 23/10/2008 11:08

Hi Kat! sorry couldn't get back sooner but dh hijacked the computer. Bad luck about your CM, I'm in Intake if that's any help to you?

OP posts:
Lilyloo · 22/10/2008 21:13

Do you have your names down in local schools ?
Ours gives out list of childminders names to parents!

kat69 · 22/10/2008 21:06

sorry - that should be "in" Donny.... not "is"

kat69 · 22/10/2008 21:06

Hi

Mumnosbest - where abouts is Donny are you.... only asking cos my childminder has just given me notice she is retiring and I need to make other arrangements for 2 for after school....

Original poster
mumnosbest · 20/10/2008 13:37

Hi coolj. Thanx for your support and hope things work out for you too. I will keep my fingers crossd for you

OP posts:
coolj · 20/10/2008 13:25

Hi everyone. Im down to one mindee at the moment as I lost 2 a few weeks ago due to the credit crunch. Hopefully I might be getting them back soon as their mum thinks she has another job.

Good luck to everyone out there hit by the recession. Its a constant struggle isnt it . Hope you all get kids soon.

I just thank god that we still have a room over our heads (loads of people are losing their homes).

If anyone needs a Childminder in CA22 (Western Lakes), give me a shout.

Have a good day

Original poster
mumnosbest · 20/10/2008 13:23

Sorrt NKf but it's a bit of a way to come from Doncaster otherwise would love to!

OP posts:
NKffffffff97017c4dX11d19751157 · 20/10/2008 10:43

Are any of you interested in looking after a really lovely baby girl one day a week sometimes with extra days in eitherthe Walthamstow area or I could drop her on on my way to work in Faringdon so any stop on the Victoria line on theway would be ok like Highbury or Finsbury park. You can contact me at [email protected]

Original poster
mumnosbest · 20/10/2008 00:09

Sorry Morloth, not sure where SW6 is but I know it's not in (not so sunny Doncaster. Good luck all the same!

OP posts:
vInTaGeVioLeT · 19/10/2008 18:32

ad-hoc is ok thanks - just takes the edge off poverty - lol