To ask to bring child to work?

[siobhan8686]

I work in a nursery 2/12 days a week. My partner is self employed. We have 2 dc. 1 in Juniors and 1 in morning nursery. My problem.... child care. My eldest will be fine as he can get dropped off at friends in morning and friends Mum will pick him up for me. It's my 3 yo thats the issue, he does morning nursery (no option at his nursery to do all day). Work as been slow for my partner over Christmas but he's got a job to do the same day as I've got work, and he'd rather not turn it down as the pay is good. I don't want to have the day off as im newish at work and only work 2 1/2 days a week as it is and my nursery are really busy at the moment and would struggle without me. Mil cant help as she is working, my mum lives 90 miles away and the other few family members who can help are at work too I was thinking about asking my work if i could bring my youngest child with me (obviously id pay the fee) but he's never been before, and because of his age, he would be in my room. He's normally quite a confident child and he is used to a nursery setting but not sure how he's going be. Im not sure what to do? Would you ask your manager or just tell you dp to just pass on this job even if the money is good?

Does the nursery you work in do adhoc sessions?

I take my 2 year old to nursery where I work.

We’re all in one room and my older dc managed fine. There were some jealousy issues, but we expected that!

Talk to your manager and whoever manages the admissions and any waiting list to see if there’s space.

Have they got capacity for him?

Adhoc sessions? @WhiteOrange They might have space but i cant guarantee it as seems some days tend to be more hectic than others. Ive never taken him there before, so dont know if he can just come in with me? Does i need to fill out tons of forms, can i work in the same room as him? Because i am based in the room he will need to be in because of his age. It will potentially only be a one off that he needs to come with me. If there was space for him do you think it would be a problem?

I feel nervous about just messaging manager. I know all she can say is no, but dint know whether its stupid to ask, like is it even possible for a nursery to just let me bring my child even though he's not registered?

Op, some nurseries in my area do what they call an adhoc session. Basically like a one off session to support parents with emergency childcare

Oh, @WhiteOrange not heard of that before x That's a really good idea, will look into it.

At the pre school my children go to, lots of the staff have or have had their own child/children attending regularly at the same time as they are working. If you are willing to pay and the setting has the capacity then I don't see why the manager would have a problem, with it at all.

This is one of those times where waiting and asking face to face rather than agonising over the perfectly worded message will help if you can wait til Monday. Definitely do ask though, you can say you need to know what advice they can offer you, maybe you could swap a work day if you can’t take your child in with you or something you’d not thought of yet.