childminders on MN when someone is paying them to look after their dc

[shinola]

am looking for a childminder so has a look athe childminders and staffroom bit of mumsntet

and see loads of messages from childminder, in work hours on line, in time they are be paid to work by us hard working mums, moaning about us hard working mums.

how dare they? I mean, if you are going to moan, do it in your own time

I don't have time to go on mumnset when I'm with ds, how do they find the time? what happens to the kis they look after? and t add insult to injury they are using their paid time to moan about people who are paying them

but not even that, I can't believe any reputable childminder or nanny can be on mumsnet when they are supposed to be looking after kids

money for old rope

Interesting discussion. I feel I'm being devil's advocate here a bit, so I should point out that I myself don't have any problem with CMs on MN. I think that being with small children all day is hard hard hard and that a bit of adult "company" is a life saver.

My point is more that because I have very high maintenance children, I think the OP's concern is valid, even though I don't particularly care for the way she expressed it.

For me (and my children) the level of computer use I can get away with is very low. If I have an important email that will only be a couple of sentences, I will write it in my head, check on the children, run to the computer and hammer it out. Even then, I've been caught out a few times (recently, was MN-ing while dd1 was feeding dog biscuits to 18 month old dd2 despite various measures to keep dog biscuits and children apart).

So MN-ing, for me, is restricted to times when they're in bed or being looked after by someone else.

I do worry a bit about confidentiality on MN though - the posts are going to be retrievable for many years to come, and anyone in the entire world can read them - it's not like having a bit of a moan to your DH or best friend, something else which I agree we all need to do sometimes, whatever job we do.