To discover a really experienced child minder charges half what my Bulgarian cleaner does....

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I mean £8 an hour for the latter, 25 years old.
£4 for the former who I understand has nursery qualifications as well.

It just seems surprising. I guess the CM can have a bunch of kids at once but still, seems wrong somehow!

funnily enough not that fuming because his cutting and pasting and wildly inaccurate conclusions are such rubbish journalism (I hesitate to label it journalism for fear of offending proper journalists) that its laughable rather than annoying... bet he doesn't cut and paste that!

I am neither underemployed nor a wife and my comment was a direct response to a comment about Louise Woodward. I have no doubt that I am way more educated than he is and can only conclude form his comments that he thinks that you should be judged according to your qualifications rather than your ability.

Good news for me then... not so good for my CM.

Shocking isn't it! Yes in theory we (minders) can have a 'bunch' of children but this isn't always the case for a host of reasons. Fulltimers are often hard to come by as well.
Whats even more shocking though is that some parts of the country some minders still only charge £3ph (I know of 2 minders who charge even less).

I find it so sad when some parents (and not all are like it) quibble over decent quality childcare costs but are quite happy to go out and spend a fortune on their new designer belt, cases of wine or their Saturday night out

What. A. Wanker.

Go on, cut and paste THAT in your next patronising, paternalistic, condescending, self-righteous, lazy article Mr Tweedie.

ooh blimey they have published my comment.

Hello Mr Tweedie if you're reading - I'm guessing you have niether wife nor child nor cleaner?

oh and before you start with your "sic", please note I do know how to spell visitor.

Most of the posters on here are considerably more literate than you in fact:

"Hence the Tory leader?s second hour-long foray into the world of the cyber-mummy, which will last an hour."

Er, yes. Hour-long forays usually do last an hour, I find.

Kew, apparently he has a MrsTweedie who used to access mumsnet.

Probably from a starbucks, while wailing about her husband's bonus, if we go by his offensive assumptions.

MrsTweedie is obviously smarting that she is no longer posh enough for middle-class Mumsnet

well quite.

I also wonder which paper he thinks he's writing for.

It's a bit rich of the Telegraph to go on about yummy mummies in the home counties. It's hardly the Socialist Worker, is it?

Wow, your lucky cleaner. At a 38 hour earning week based on her working 52 weeks a year with no holiday she's earning a massive £16,600 gross

Yeah, she's really raking it in

AnnieMac and I are being ably defended by MN'ers!