Another childcare rant - how do people do it?!

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If you and your partner both work how do you manage childcare? My eldest started school in September and prior to this we had wraparound care in nursery. We now use after school club, however this is committee led and we've just had an email saying it's at risk of closure due to not enough volunteers. If you don't use after school club how do families make it work? Do grandparents help 5 days a week? Honestly sick of this country not helping working parents 🫠 the irony of parents needing to be on the committee to keep it open when you're already busy working and juggling a million other school bits and pieces is hilarious to me also 😅 it's something I'd love to be part of but have no idea how if find time... Any and all advice welcome!

Single mum. I changed to a job that was 15 mins from the school. Dropped ds at 8.40, at my desk by 9. ASC 3.15 until 6. I collected ds at 5.45.

When they scrapped ASC on Fridays, ds was 10, so I took my lunch hour at 2.45, collected ds, settled him at home with drink, snack & phone, and went back to work for 3.45. Not ideal but he was happy and it was only for a year.

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Had to change my job to part time to accomodate

The nursery is shutting down so find another one. It happens.

What?

She isn’t using a nursery. She is using an after school club.

Have you partaken of some glue?

We both went self employed and worked from home. Which was hugely risky but worked out for us. That is obviously not the solution for a lot of people!

No, why have you?

I couldn’t go back to work after having my baby.

He has severe autism so I couldn’t put him
in after school care - even if I wanted to. I also have to take him to a lot of appointments.

We don’t have any family support.