To think places for children should open earlier?

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Just seen this on my Instagram and could not agree more! Everywhere for children opens way to late, should be open earlier.

It's probably because a lot of people who are in charge of soft plays and kids activities have children themselves, so they need to drop them at school and then need time to get to work and open up etc.

Before my ds2 started school I used to run a toddler group with 2 other mums and all of us had school aged kids too. Toddler group opened at 9.30 to allow us to drop the older ones at school then get to the hall and set up. I remember once someone turned up at 9.10 and complained that we weren't ready. I felt like telling her to open her own group!

Exactly. Why would you "wait endlessly" for three whole hours until something opens.

Give them a book or a jigsaw puzzle or something.

Parents don't seem able to do that going on this thread!

I agree OP! Same with baby/toddler classes. They are always on at the wrong times for us. It's so frustrating since my one wakes up and then has his nap just as everything is opening/starting. That first three hours of the day are usually a write off, just playing at home, which gets very repetitive. I'd love baby and toddler classes at 8 - 9am!

I have to say I have always thought early mornings were the time that the television was made for.

I often said no at other times so that it seems like a treat in the early mornings when mine were smaller!

Oh god no, I'm the exact opposit I wish they where open LATER, not all kids are up at the crack of dawn and in bed by 6pm.

With oldest DC DH worked nights and I went to night classes so we never saw a morning, in summer we could go to the park but we where lucky with oldest DS that the local soft play would let us use it at night because otherwise there would be nothing.

Even now that we are on day times and the oldest kids in school am I fuck unnessacerily going out in the morning. I'm still a zombie in the mornings (no matter what time I get up or how much sleep I've had) and even the things we have to go to is a bloody hassle before noon-ish.

I find most kids things shut at 4pm-ish (or last admittence before 4) which is 4 hour before my kids bedtime and the time they have most energy to run off to tire them out.

They get up around 8am and we take it easy and veg, breakfast and watching some tv or playing with toys, start to feel alive by about 10.30, go out if we have to do jobs and then have dinner at noon, nap for youngest at 1-3pm then get up and eat again/get ready taking us past 4 usually and THEN they have a load of energy and need stuff to do until 8pm which in winter is virtually no options.

Mammyloveswine · Today 17:36
I mean the staff might not have kids so why should they have to be at work at a ridiculously early hour?

We've all been there...there are parks open if you must get out before 9am.

Ridiculous and entitled post“

This ^

Just because you have kids why should people get to work early on a Sunday !

My one year old had a phase of 5am starts.

9am was practically the next day to us.

I once went to the local open-at 6.30-for-commuters coffee shop every day for a week, in the post-lockdown please just get me out of these four walls with a baby phase.

Yep really pissed me off when I had my first!! Now on baby 3 and it still pisses me off somewhat, as ideally for me it would be 9:15, but I now appreciate that most of the people who run baby groups and soft plays etc have kids of their own and therefore need to get them places before their own day can start.

I'm a bit baffled really, that anyone would want to usher their kids out of the house, pay money for some mundane activity before 10am.
Why can't people enjoy time with their children at home?

I used to dread having to take my kids to an over crowded over priced venue which took ages on the bus having to deal with the general public who can't stand children making normal noises, having to carry a bag of snacks and changes of clothes etc.

We'd stay at home preferably!

This.

Despite DD being up at the crack of dawn we still struggle to get anywhere for a 9am kick-off; there’s always a wee/welly/whatever crisis so 10am feels about right. In the meantime, CBeebies, park, saying “Mmm, Mummy’s busy” while I scroll Mumsnet and stare into a caffeine abyss.

Haha we should have a game seeing how long it takes for someone on Mumsnet to use the word 'entitled' (usually incorrectly). 4 posts in!

Not sure if you missed it, but they're talking about places FOR children. Lots of people have to be at work early or late if that's what the work requires. Imagine working in a pub and demanding to know why you should work later than 5:30pm 😁. Its a bit much you calling someone else's post ridiculous!

Never crossed my mind! Who are these people who can get out the door and to their destination with little kids any earlier than 10am??

I'd love baby and toddler classes at 8 - 9am!

Why don't you start one? I imagine those that start later are popular and well attended so have no need to change the time.

Nursery's she open fron 7.30 so why not?

I would work in a place like that.

I used to find the opposite, all the baby and toddler groups near me started at 9am. With older ones to get to school, getting ready and travelling to them, I struggled to get there before about 10 which meant we'd missed half of it.

In our area all the baby and toddler groups seem to be on from 12pm onwards. Bloody useless for a toddler who needs to nap over lunchtime!

How hard is it to get out the door? Unless you’re doing something wild like unpacking the change bag every day. Grab baby, grab bag, put shoes on, go. We’re up from 6 ish though (with the older kids, baby sleeps til 8 ish at the moment). I’m accustomed to a 6am start now and it gives 2.5 hours in the morning before the school run so I guess this may be a key factor to a peaceful non frantic morning. So OP, your early rises may come in handy when your kids are school age!

Are you going to get up at 6am on a sunday to open a park or softplay?

No?

Shhh then.

It's the post Covid prebooking of things that bothers me more.

@ChillysWaterBottle hahahahaha!

Not at all..

Maybe the op could start their own early soft play for children? Or you could?

There's a reason it's not a thing!

9am is early enough.., how on earth did parents cope before softplay etc? Oh entertained their own children at home and didn't expect the world to change just because they had procreated..

Because the world doesn't resolve around your kids? What an entitled post.

I would struggle to get anywhere before 11am tbh if I didn't have to. My 2 have never been particularly early risers though and happy to chill out in pjs for a while before we start our day.