AIBU to think that once you have paid your childcare, its not really worth working.? Is it that you just don`t want to look after your own kid. prefering to stick them in daycare as soon as the shine wears off, it really bugs me!

[discusturd]

Some go from 7-6 and never see there parents, I know I will get slated but in the nursery I work some kids hardly know who their parents are.

YABU. For low paid jobs Tax credits cover up to 80% of childcare and working is the difference in being able to provide for the children or not. Fair enough there are some parents who work lots of hours soley because they want to, but that is a very small proportion.

well I feel sorry for them and when I have kids I wouldn`t leave them in day care cos I will want to be with mine. Also tell me to fuck off, you just feel guilty!

It's not really any of your business is it?

But there could be loads of reasons you're just not aware of. In my case, like pagwatch suggests, it's the little bit extra that helps. I don't have much left after childcare and bills, but the little I do goes into savings so one day we can live somewhere bigger than a one-bedroom flat in a terrible area. Also, my gross salary needs to count so we can get a mortgage on a house or a flat with a garden.

So, yep, you are being unreasonable; you just don't know people's circumstances.

I really, really hope you don't work at my daughter's nursery.

Oh, have you never heard of tax credits? They paid over two thirds of DD1's childcare fees in the beginning, and still pay a quarter of DD2's fees now.

So even humble Clinial Support Workers like me can afford to put our children in the care of nurseries andd run off to have a ball at work........

I thought i'd want to be with my kids too Troll discustard.

PND does funny things to your mind.

my kids don't shine? should they?

Discusturd - your children will be really, really lucky then won't they?

I wish my DD had such a wonderful parent like you.

"when I have kids I wouldn`t leave them in day care cos I will want to be with mine"

Yep, and when you have kids you'll have time to bake on maternity leave, you'll never shout and they will spend all day smiling sweetly and making macrame pictures to give to their grandparents.

discusturd - but would your children want to be with you? That is the question!

So the op hasn't actually got any children but thought she'd come on here anyway to slag off the mums that pay her wages for her. Nice.

I take the school holidays have yet to finish.

Now then young man, when you go back to secondary school after the summer break, just think to yourself how grateful your mum will be to get you off her back.Well that's what all these mummies at your imaginary "nursery" are thinking.

If we wanted to spend time with our kids I wouldn't be on MN would I?

do you have to buff them?

it doesn't seem to be working .. they're still matte

See - I'm so stressed out by my kids I can't remember the difference between "we" and "I".

This is why I need to put my ds in nursery 3 days a week!

at SUD!!

Bree, I see you know this little feller as well!

so you have no kids.....?

I would like to say the same as bouncing turtle really.....

op you forgot to say precious moments,the 7-6 slammers has been done to death.so last week

PMSL @ Twiglett's matte children

Why are you all getting so arsey ? unless I have touched a raw nerve, surely for the short time your lo is really small you could not have them in day care for 50hrs a week thats all I am saying. I love my job but sometimes I feel sorry for the babys that spend their life there. Then the mothers get upset when they seem more attached to their key worker, thats all I am saying.

ever had to explain a tremendously long gap in your CV to an employer? that's assuming you even got to interview stage.

NI contributions so you can collect what is left of state pension in your old age?

maybe some would go nuts if they were SAHM.

Maybe they're Goth children, Twig?

Oh a nursery that took dh too, wow, would be fab. Actually, ideally I'd live IN the office and pretend I didn#t have children or a husband.