Am I missing something here - what are the children whom you are meant to be minding doing while you are on the Internet??

im a nanny

PMSL marla

have we had an answer yet?

WHAT SHOULD WE DO WHEN CHARGE IS ASLEEP??

yes i surf the internet at work, i use mb laptop , which she gave me her 2 passwords to log on - so yes she knows and obv doesnt mind me using the internet!!

I come on a for a read, giggle and bit of company when my charges are asleep or at school/nursery

DAMN

I should sit in the hall upstairs in the middle of the 2 bedrooms

maybe I do

we ALL know that I can multitask

Any parents in any doubt about how committed to our jobs we are should look at the weekend staff rooms, where we agonise about forfeiting family time to keep our paperwork and traning up to date.

5candles You really need to get a life dear.

I do not hover over my mindees, they enjoy playing independently and choosing their own toys, and talking to each other , as well as with me and my DS.

I work alone, and come on here at quick various points of the day as I put pots in the sink, fill up paint easels, chop fruit etc (my laptop in kitchen), or while baby mindee is sleeping and older ones are sat in their tent house.

I'm not sure we would get sacked for MNetting at work. It would depend on the circumstance, surely? It is not a porn or gambling website, after all. As long as the job gets done and you confine it to the odd look while you are having your sarnie and lunchtime or whatever, I don't see how it is any different from reading the BBC News website or checking the weather.

Liar

Easy now, I'm fighting your corner remember. I have no need to be here what-so-ever! I'm a teacher now and I've never been on MN at work! Oh no, not me, uh-ah!

That was just you, they loved the rest of us

I've been out doing Guiding duties!

Someone got out the wrong side of the bed today didn't they. Wind your neck in love, clearly you won't ever need a cm, so leave 'em alone and let them take their precious 10 mins or so free time, in the knowledge that the majority of parents don't expect their CM's to watch over their sleeping babies.

I have noticed though, that this thread is far more pro-cm than the last one I got involved in last year! I was a real baddie on that one!

God Woman where have you been, you have missed all the fun???

Have I gone back in time? Didn't we have this discussion a few months ago?

I'll answer now, the same way as I did then. In the words of the most wonderful CM in the world, Mary Poppins, 'I never explain myself to anybody!'

Lots of times, Marla exploded whist asking for the hundredth time

No answer was given

has any one asked the question: what DO you expect CMs to do whilst mindees nap?????

( If not, I think someone SHOULD.......)

Oh dear dear dear ... I am truly shocked that childminders are not using the mindees' naptime to get to grips with doing their obligatory written observations.

Watching a child sleep is Very Important, and should be recorded accordingly (and with photographic evidence to prove it).

Well this has sure kept me entertained on a lonely night at home without dh!!

CMs should watch the children all the time they are in their care
And the parents should return regularly during the day to give them those breaks we're all entitled to at work
In the absence of those, I think they're entitled to read a newspaper / MN/ have a wee while children are asleep / happily entertained for a while as presumably they don't get formal "breaks"

I agree with the OP

I feel like I am a bad mother now, DS is asleep, should i not be on Mumsnet???

Oh, honestly.

The reason I used CMs when dd was little was because I wanted her to spend time in a normal environment. And that meant the CM sitting down with a cuppa, doing laundry, etc etc (as opposed to hours of stimulating play, all monitored in a little book by a dedicated key worker).

10 minutes spend on mumsnet whilst the mindees are watching Peppa Pig is perfectly reasonable.

I am SHOCKED and HORRIFIED that not one CM here has suggested the use of that all in one body harness that Tom Cruise uses in Mission Impossible to SUSPEND themselves on the ceiling above the sleeping children they are ALLEGEDLY minding (and periodically but no less than once in every three minute period lowering themselves to within 2 cm of said sleeping child's face to check breathing CLOSE UP).

Fivecandles - do you need assistance removing your head from your a*se?

If there was an MN competition for Most Sanctimonious and Ridiculous Post, the OP would have my vote. Fantastic

Whilst my mindee is asleep I tidy up, clean kitchen from lunch, grab a quick sarni and drink and whislt i eat it will pop on the net for a short while. Then I try and do a bit of cm paper work (always something that needs to be done) start daily diaries. Depending on what I am doing for dinner i might prep the veg, peel potatoes maybe. By this time mostly 2hrs have past and it's time to wake them up to go and collect from school. I always pack the laptop away so little ones can't touch and also so i won't be tempted to look at it again until the end of the day.

Blimey. Well as a teacher of course I can't MN, sadly, because I teach children, I don't mind them. Whem I was at home with my own children I MNed a lot. A lot, a lot. And still managed to look after the children.

Wow, someone got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning didn't they!

I have both mindees each day napping at the same time. I have my lunch and come on here to get advice about the kiddies, have a chat etc, parents know this. I don't get a lunch break as such so just grab the time I've got and eat. I clean and tidy up whilst they nap otherwise it wouldn't be hygienic for them etc. So I'm not ACTUALLY sitting and staring at them then but I'm doing stuff that is NEEDED for when they wake up.

Also, god forbid one mindee is napping but the other is awake. Should I refund money the asleep child as I'm not properly minding them at that point but playing with another one instead.

Honestly, you've made me PMSL, you really have. So thanks for cheering me up!!!

And I'd also love to know........what DO you expect us to do whilst mindees nap?????

full moon southeastastra

what a loopy thread

Has anyone actually looked at the times that CM's use Mumsnet?

The Staff Room, is usually opened around 6/6.30 in the morning before kids arrive, and post will be sporadic throughout the day, NOBODY is n it for hours!

But - I wouldn't be able to use mumsnet on my break if I was a childminder, as it is soooo addictive and this could lead to an hour or 2 hours on mumsnet. Which I think 5candles obvoiusly is concerned about which would be wrong!
I am not suggesting that childminders abuse this and do this at all so don't jump on me but I bet it happens!