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

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fivecandles · 12/11/2008 19:11

Because I would be livid if I was paying you to mind my child and you were Mumsnetting.

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jimjamshaslefttheyurt · 12/11/2008 19:57

You sound quite insane.

dustystar · 12/11/2008 19:56

It can be their new campaign

Tee2072 · 12/11/2008 19:56

What I want to know is where are fivecandles children right now, while she's here on Mumsnet. Because, obviously, you are suppose to literally watch your children (or the children you are minding) 24/7/365.

So why isn't she doing that?

marlasinger · 12/11/2008 19:56

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hullygully · 12/11/2008 19:56

On second thoughts, go to the Daily Mail, they will LOVE you and you will be with your own kind.

hullygully · 12/11/2008 19:55

Never mind the press, go to the rack.

marlasinger · 12/11/2008 19:55

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Saturn74 · 12/11/2008 19:55

fivecandles, I think you're determined to wind yourself into a foam of moral outrage.

Sometimes young children sleep during the day.
Sometimes they play happily for a short while without adult interaction.
Sometimes there are no children there at all!

To state that MNing childminders are being abusive, unprofessional or somehow devious by being on here during the day is offensive.

So, unless you've been keeping a spreadsheet for each MNer that you know is a childminder, and have timed each one of them, and can prove that they spend an huge amount of time on here, whilst their charges play with open fires, bottles of bleach and pointy objects of all shapes and sizes, I think your argument is pretty weak - and quite silly.

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fivecandles · 12/11/2008 19:54

Is it funny then that childminders are surfing the net whilst being paid to look after other people's kids? Is that what it is?

Tempted to go to the press. Honestly I'm horrified.

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fivecandles · 12/11/2008 19:52

Really, the fact that this is being trivialised as an issue and my concerns rubbished puts me off even more. If a parent came to you and said they were concerned that you weren't giving their child your full attention because you were actually on the interenet while taking their money would you take the same approach?

'You appear to be very keen on seeing people disciplined. '

Not at all. I just recognize that in most jobs there are disciplinary procedures for people who lack the profesionalism to know what constitutes acceptable behaviour in the workplace.

If my kids' teachers surfed the net whilst they were supervising their students I would expect them to be disciplined as would I.

Don't make out that this is MY problem.

I would be concerned if a childminder was surfing the net whilst being paid to look after my kids. I'm not the only one. In fact, if most parents had any idea this was going on I'm sure they'd be as outraged as I am.

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beanieb · 12/11/2008 19:51

Oh the HORROR!

hullygully · 12/11/2008 19:50

Whip that GP.

Gotta go, but FiveC, if this isn't a wind-up, you really need to get some tablets...big time.

marlasinger · 12/11/2008 19:50

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guyFAwkesreQuiem · 12/11/2008 19:50

lol CT

flowerybeanbag · 12/11/2008 19:50

I'm not missing the point. You couldn't know when starting the thread whether anyone would come on here saying that, but you were clearly already cross about it, presumably from other threads. You are now cross with people on this thread as well, fine.

If you see comments 'all over threads' which show that people are posting while minding, challenge those people rather than starting a vague general thread asking what everyone's mindees are doing, at a time when most people on here won't be minding anyway.

Without reading it back, I think most people who have posted on this thread that they MN while minding do so when mindees are asleep, which I personally think is fine.

KatyMac · 12/11/2008 19:49

I am allowed to go to the loo?

guyFAwkesreQuiem · 12/11/2008 19:49

well since I started posting on this thread a little while ago I have

Changed DS3's nappy and put his PJ's on
Listenend to DS1 read
Listened to DS2 count to 100 ~(well he's still getting there - he does it rather slowly )
Had a coffee
And had DS3 on my knee "helping" me write my posts

And now I'd better go for a few minutes as DS1 has just put DS3's bottle of milk next to me and DS3 is sitting on the sofa looking little pissed off that it's not in his mouth yet

ConnorTraceptive · 12/11/2008 19:49

Not relevant really but when I went to my Dr's this week, he had been browsing for new cars and had left the web page on his screen. He was very when I said "Don't get a renault they're crap"!

I suspect ds2's sore testicle was the high light of a very dull morning

marlasinger · 12/11/2008 19:48

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Saturn74 · 12/11/2008 19:48

see, now you're getting into the idea of discipline too, hg.

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fivecandles · 12/11/2008 19:47

'and if you're a teacher getting, say, £25k plus a year, don't compare yourself to a childminder getting £3 an hour'

I think this attitude is pretty shocking. What's how much you get paid got to do with it? So now you're excusing the fact that some people who are paid to look after kids are actually on the Net because they're badly paid??? Oh my God. If you don't the money get another job but don't do the most important job of all - looking after kids - badly.

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hullygully · 12/11/2008 19:46

HC - I still think there is a place for the bullwhip. I hear the call of the crack of leather.