nursery opening hours

[scottishgal09]

I need to go back to work so will soon be putting my 9 month old in nursery, only thing is that the earliest I can find any nursery open is 7 am to 7 pm. The 7 pm closing time is fine but I really find I need a opening time of 6 pm. I also work Saturday mornings so need something that is open 6 days. Start time should be at least 6:00 pm but I struggle to find this. Do these type of nursery’s exist? What are the opening and closing hours for your nursery’s? Why don’t nursery’s take into account that some parents need to work 6 days 🤨?

A full time job is 40 hours a week. Being generous and adding on an hour of commute each way is 50 hours a week. That would work out to 8am to 6pm each weekday, not a before 6am start and six days a week. Some families do use 8-6 five days a week, but no one does what you're looking for. People who need that level of childcare have multiple live-in nannies, because it's way over full time hours for even one live-in nanny!

OP - is there a possibility that either you or your partner can request flexible working so that you can drop off at 7:30am?

Have you worked out how much the nursery fees for their standard full time hours are going to cost you?

What are you going to do when you can’t find anywhere to take your baby from 6am?

Are you planning to have anymore children? If so, how will you afford 2 lots of nursery fees?

What sort of jobs do you and your partner work?

This thread has to be a wind-up?

My partner and I have both reduced our hours and days significantly in order to be able to work around our child’s needs. My child is much older than your, but only goes four days a week and 7 hours a day because we have chosen what’s best for her, not for us or for our finances. That’s the sacrifice you make when having a child. You say you’ve both got two jobs - but that you have to go back to work to pay for childcare. One or both of you drop a job, reduce the childcare hours (and the costs) and take on the burden and responsibility of being a parent.

If you will struggle to make ends meet (though you’ve not sued this anywhere as a reason, so doesn’t sound like it’s the case) then get your child into council nursery and use the benefits and welfares that you should be entitled to.

YOU take on the burdens and parents, not the child.

@scottishgal09 Just out of curiosity, how many hours per week do you work and what is your line of work?

It sounds like a very tough job but it's great that you like it.

As to constructive ideas, could a childminder cover the hours that nursery can't? Would that be an option for you?

Like you, I also wouldn't like my child to be cared for by a childminder all day, but for a couple of hours that should be fine.

This applies to family and friends, not nursery workers. I worked in a nursery for years and I did not ‘love’ the children I worked with.

It was me who thought £25-30k for a nanny. I'm stunned at the link you put up with nannies at £50k

But I'm also thinking Op & DH are probably on not much more than NMW either so a nanny just isn't feasible for them.

Why don't you ask nearly everyone you know what nursery they use OP?
As you seem to be getting your knickers in a twist with the very reasonable answers here that what you're after - they don't exist!

. FacePalm at people not understanding childcare issues until they smack them right in the chops

This is not how child rearing works. I have a degree in child development. Children need a good bond with their parents or at least one. This person needs to be available to them most of the time in the formative years. This close bond prevents attachment disorders later in life. Please Google attachment disorders as they cripple any hope of a happy and fulfilling life.
im not saying stay home… but stay home much more than you are suggesting. Parenthood is a privilege, an honour and a responsibility.

But you are looking for not only all the hours a nursery offers, but extra hours and extra weekend days THAT NO NURSERY IN THE COUNTRY offers. And for a tiny 9 month old baby (as opposed to an older three or four year old for example, who might be a little better equipped to cope. Even then, it would be madness)

Nothing offers what you want. So you will just have to adjust your lives to suit your child. That’s how the rest of us do it.

5 full days at that age is a push. Extra hours and days on top of that for a child so young really is just cruel and way too much. If you can’t alter your hours or job then your partner should do that you let baby has some time with a parent. They will hugely suffer emotionally as well as just being absolutely knackered.

No, everybody doesn't do this.

Some people have children because they want to spend time with them and raise them themselves.
Sort your priorities out, drop hours for a few years, spend time with your child instead of farming them out to strangers for at least 60 hours a week.... unless of course you want your child to grow up as a stranger to you.
You have years after they've grown to prioritise yourself and your career ... you never get these early years with your children back and they are glorious.

Nursery workers do not ‘love’ your child 🙄

People are saying that you need a large salary to afford lots of hours of childcare (especially when those hours are very early/weekends), that will surely come as no surprise to anyone, hopefully not you as the one asking.

Do you have a large salary?
What do you do/earn?

Why can't your husband do drop off in the morning?
Why can't you speak to work and change your hours so you can start later?
We all have to change things we don't want to when we have kids.

Lots of people use full time nursery for there children from a very young age because it is best for the mother and the child.

Full time nursery for most people means 8-6, 5 days a week. Or less than that because a parent works compressed hours over 4 days , or granny has the baby once a week or whatever.

Nobody has a baby in nursery 6am to 7pm, 6 days a week. They just don't.

I don’t know why people are replying as if this is real! Nobody is like this..

And you think this is best for your child? Your posts are about YOU and how YOUR job is important. I really don’t think you’ve thought of how it will affect your child.

You need to sit down with you partner and actually work out a solution whereby your child isn’t being cared for by someone else 95% of the week.

What is your salary, how much you earn ? Don’t be nosy.

Why does she need to go to work so early?!

There are millions of people who work all sorts of shifts, you know.

OP your on a wind up now 🤣🤣🤣

How many hours a week do you work, and what have your work said when you’ve asked if you can go part time / compressed hours / flexible working?

Still intrigued what this marvellous long hours shit payed job is
Wherr can I sign up?

I'm just skimming through.
My youngest is 15 now so it's been a while since I used nursery. Oldest is 25.
Both went full time (9-5 ish) 5 days a week. It was an onsite nursery at a scientific institute (academia not industry). Most children were full time at the nursery. I really hope things have changed such that parents are able to pursue their careers and work part time while their children are very young.
Working p/t when mine were younger was not the norm in my field. It was coming in with my youngest, but definitely not with my older son.

Lots of people use childcare from a very young age because they have to go to work in order to pay the bills.

Is there any evidence to suggest that they use full time childcare because it’s ‘best’ for mother and child?