Trying to mumsnet, mindees won't stop feeding me imaginary cake

[PrincessTeacake]

We're at soft play, I'm trying to get in a quick mumsnet browse but they run over to me every five minutes trying to feed me pretend cake. If I don't pretend to eat it, they rub it on my mouth and laugh. I told them it'd make me fat but they just thought that was funny.

Help?

do your job and look after your mindees instead of playing on the internet?

sorry I forgot the catsbum

good luck with this one op....

I suspect the majority of posts on MN right now are by people being paid to do something else at work, home or elsewhere.

Every 5 minutes? So youre getting 5 minutes MNing inbetween these awful intrusions? Awwww life is so hard for some people at work

Agree with Heinz - I'd be narked if my cm wasn't interacting with dd or watching her from a short distance.

If you want constant interaction with your children, get a nanny.

OP, YANBU but you're gonna get flamed!

Erm... I'm assuming the OP is doing that jokey lighthearted thing rather than confessing that she has her head in Internet land and is ignoring her mindees so I'm not going to be too mean. But you don't sound great tbh.

Who is asking for constant interaction? OP is objecting to having to spend 5 seconds with her eyes off her phone at 5 minute intervals. Of course now she will say she was joking.

OFGS.

She took them to soft play, it's not like she's left them in a room full of knives for a bit of peace.

Jesus.

Catsbum here

no doubt OP is not actually a registered child minder, the children are a friend's, she's just doing a favour

because otherwise she ain't doing her job properly

Right

I see you are a nanny, not a childminder

The children in your care are not mindees

HTH

I would expect you to be watching my child/ren.

Ask them to switch to real cake, problem solved!

A cm is self employed, registered and regulated by Ofsted and often highly qualified.

Personally I am a registered nurse, and a level 3 grade in teaching and earning and an early years coordinator.

I used to occasionally go to soft play with mindees and didn't helicopter them but watched from afar like a hawk.

If you are a nanny you have not got mindees and you are not a cm you are an employee of the parents.

As to the post. Think you are joking arnt you?

If they are over about 4 they normally disappear into the softplay leaving parents or minders to have a coffee. You don't have to go in with them unless they want you. So no harm in a quick MN as long as you pretend to eat the cake.

Haha what Juno said.

OP if you find a solution please tell me, I swear I've been fed my own body weight in imaginary cake by DD today.

Hopefully this is a troll post. I'd be unhappy as a parent if my childminder was trying to ignore children who are trying to interact, and tbh if you told my child cake would make you fat, it'd be the last time you looked after them.

What's soft-play for if you can't relax with a book/phone/tablet/laptop?

I get cross when posters misrepresent as childminders (nannypastagate was a case in point) because they give opportunities for CM-bashing unnecessarily. Grrrrr.

OP is relaxing with her phone- what she is objecting to is having that relaxation interrupted by her charges which if a genuine post, speaks volumes about the level of care she expects to have to provide for them.

My dcs disappear in soft play and i open a book, lifting my head every time i hear a child yell mummy few minutes. What i dont do is expect to be unavailable to my dcs for an entire 90 minutes whilst we are there. I expect that one will need a wee, one will need a drink, oh and then another, then one will need his nose wiped or his trousers pulled up or he'll come and say a big boy pushed him, then they'll want to just sit down for a few minutes with me and have a snack then they'll be off and a few minutes later will shout at me to wave at them from behind the safety netting. There is something every few minutes and anyone with any experience of looking after children will expect this and accept it as normal. Not sure how much experience OP has with children but her expectations are unrealistic.

I told them it'd make me fat but they just thought that was funny.

The cake fat comment is very dickish.

Lots of mnettrrs will now froth that you aren't clambering over the soft play with them and how you are being paid to state at the minders at all times