Staff Room : All Clear Sirn Goes Off.

I do mean fivecandles on the other thread!!! She's a teacher and should know better. Stories i know from several private and school teachers would turn your hair blue!!!!

I think she's just out to stir trouble. Personally I would just ignore the thread, looking at her history of threads!!!!

aw chick, get over to other thread and step in for me..im steaming LOL

my younger mindee hasa new game this and last week...its called PINK and it goes like this
mindee says: PINK..pink..pink...pink..pink..pink..pink (replace that with my real name!)..she doesnt wait for or want an answer...just likes to shout my anme and stress me out LOL.xxxx

im off to wash my hair LOL...can you hear me shouting from over here LOL.xxx

Can I please ask - we cms are all human (as far as I am aware), and therefore all have our off days, so does anyone hav any tips apart from grit your teeth?

I have just had 'one of those days, mindees all super demanding and me all - hmm, trying to think of the right word - stressed/down/tired/irritated.

I am not normally like this, andit never shows in my work, but I felt o guilty today that my heart wasn't in it, even though the kids didn't notice. Sigh.

Mindees gone - I am cracking open my emergency bottle of pear cider! Aah that's better.

No more wine for me - keep getting headaches , I've got to buy some lemonade and then I can have peach schnapps and lemonade and no one will be any wiser!!!

Only 1 mindee here now - 8 years old currently helping my ds search for something that has been lost!!

ZAP!!!!

consider yourself kapowed by lightening!!!

my 4 mindees are running riot in the lounge. i am in the kitchen with a glass of wine.

ds3 has finally fallen asleep, unfortunately ds4 is 'wide' awake!!! so shouldn't be here but ds4 is munching on a cracker bread in front of me, and I can type and watch him as well (in line of site).

Afraid I can't help with the publication either but Baker ross are very good.

Still tittering at last night's thread.

Anyway, no help on the publication you are after, Mrs P.

Been to Music this morning, the baby really getting into it now. Yay. For those lurking and tutting, the children are asleep.

Right off to check the boards for more lunacy.

Have a great day

Afternoon all.

Just read that thread from last night - . Mindees are asleep - hope thats ok 5candles

Anyway, I will have 10 more MN mins, and then off to prepare for school run etc!

Just got back from a childminding group and have managed to forget the name of a magazine which I thought was easy to remember

Someone had it from the childminding conference last Friday. It just had christmas arts and crafts sets in it but they were all reasonably priced. I thought it just had two letters eg e s or e n educational or something like that.

Any ideas what it may have been I really wanted to order the make your own finger puppets.....

[creeps in looking over shoulder]. Its ok Im finished for the day and all my kids are at nursery/school.

Is it ok if I can come and chat without getting detention

I am shocked at what went on last night.

The original poster really does need to get a life. I don't know about everyone else but my time is FAR too precious to waste an entire evening arguing a point which doesn't even affect me in real life.

Plus there are some childminders who do far worse things but we better not go there for fear of having the leave the country!

Anyway I am pleased as I have managed to get another mindee on by books and he is lovely!

Hi all!
Not been on for a few days, RL has been keeping me busy for a while. My DD has just started walking and I forgot what hard work that is!
Sounds like some of you are feeling a bit down, so I've come bearing muffins anf coffee, an extra one for mumsanutter (sorry and hope things turn out well for you) and also for anyone who was up early with Shoshe (wont mention my lie in till 9 this morning!)

By the way if anyone can help I've started a thread on taking on a mindee that restricts how many others I can take?

pmsl at last nights threads, some people really need to get a life!!

not at all chick, dont let people make you doubt yourself!

my mindes love nickjr or cbeebies as a treat, we use dtlk all the time and they chosoe what printables they want!..is it still in chat then?, ill ahve a read through tonight! and put my two peneth inLOL

I agree with you Pink.

The op started another thread in Chat and kept bringing up that I had said that I let the children use the internet - I didn't say this I said that they playe don Webkinz, which yes is on the internet, but is extremely secure etc. Am I wrong to let the children play on this then? Do I need a policy? The laptop is set on family security setting and dh has set up a system that I can watch what they are doing on the lap top from my pc (winx or something). God shes got me questioning my own abilities now , I'm not working at mo mindee ill, so sitting with 2 ill dc and having cuddles while typing - is this wrong as well?

well hope you get through evry soon then chick!

LOL at the thread there was one a while back as well..EVERYONE felt the need to PROVE why they were here/where the children where/if they were working today!!!....as if we dont get anough hassle!

My computer is on nearly all day, we pirnt off pics, play on cbebies sometimes, go on DTLK for printable etc and i can see if ive received any emails or check on ehre if its quiet/children asleep/at school and nursery...also at times like this, Mindee is here with me as ive just had to write out incident report out from yesterday to ensure its read by mum and signed tonight, has took me 5 mins max and now off to play with our playdoh! before lunch, nursery pick up, diff nursery drop off, singing group, fruit shopping and back to school for 3..let them do our jobs for 1 day i say then let them have a go!..i had 7 yesterday!7 children..would love to see them manage that as well as i do

Thanks pink, I just wrote mums as couldn't be bothered to type mumsanutter!! Only thing about changing my 'name' is that it is now longer!! I made my doctor aware of family history etc and he marked the paperwork as urgent, but as usual its now just a waiting game! Doc told me to chase if not heard anything in 2 weeks! The thread was about childminders being on the internet during the day while minding!

Morning Booh, can't do much for your mojo, but say welcome and enjoy (its not usually as made as last night!!)

aw sorry chick, when you said 'mums'...are you ok?, i would remind them of your mum and explain you want the first appointment available and pester them until they give you one!
am thinking of you chick.x

Pink, thanks for the concern (its me that has found the lump - my mum passed away 24 years ago from breast cancer!!). I keep a daily diary for me, as well as doing the childrens, and I not any areas for concern in here using initials etc to try and maintain a little confidentiallity.

Not working, so cuddleing ds4 on sofa to try and encourage a sleep! Not working at the mo though!

oh and what thread kicked of yesterday??

Hi All, sorry it seems its a bad morning with sickness and poorlyness.
Mumsanutter, the appointment will prob take about 6 weeks to come through, mine ddid, i then had a series of visits to monitor it (i got messed about with seeing diff consultants, so get your mum to request she sees same person ALL the time as they vary in what they 'prefer' to do!)..will be thinking about her and you.x

well i have a prob, am going to starta thread too, but this mindee who bit yesterday, mum has decided to now keep a diary of things he does/says..shes writing things down that have stuck in her memory months ago too...one of which is when mindee was getting his shoes on as mum appeared at (open) door and suddenly he started crying said "pinks just punched me"!!!!!!!!!!!!..thankfully mum was stood there at time and told him off!, he does have an overly active imagination and asys some awful things sometimes, but am now thinking it might be a good idea to start a 'behavior' diary of my own on him including these things he said about me to make sure i can show anyone the things he says/does?