I can't stand nursery workers.

[northernlight1974]

Nearly every day I see childcare workers taking children on "outings" or collecting children from school to after school clubs.Literally everyday these "carers"(in the loosest possible sense of the word)are approx 18yrs old,talking to their friends on their phones/talking about who they "got off" with last night/how much they drank last night or where they were going tonight and totally ignoring the children who are in their care, apart from the occassional"Jack get here!"THEY SHOW NO AFFECTION FOR THESE KIDS! Who would pay a fortune for these people to look after their children????

So they're not nursery workers then?

[Bemused nanny marks her space on the thread]

NN bashing again. Goody.

Don't use them then. If you know a parent who does, you should tip them off.

Because of course you know everybody who works in a nursery and have observed them all closely and stalked them obsessively.

Oh, I can't be botheres. Have a .

oh purlease!

Worst 'Nursery care is bad for children' thread ever!

FACT!

What do you want to hear? That the only people who would leave their children in the care of a nursery are horrendous career women who refuse to give up their foreign holidays or expensive cars.

Yawn.

Too young to be childminders? Now I know a few (not all) childminders - and mothers - who fit that description in every other respect ... shame

Well I've never been a nursery worker, but I did used to work for an after school club and pick up. I'd never have ignored the children, as I suspect the people you are talking about weren't.

Occasionally I might mutter a few words to a colleague that weren't directly related to a child.

Do you and your DP/DH only talk about/to your children?

How utterly dull.

What blueshoes said. The nursery workers where DD goes are made of gold. She wouldn't go to nursery at all if they weren't so fab (she started almost by accident).

Am only going to say nursery workers should be paid more.

Going to hide this thread now.

There is a flaw in your theory

Nursery staff dont do the school run!

I've heard they eat the ugliest babies for lunch. After smoking crack obviously.

What is the point of your post? Wheres the AIBU? You are, by the way, in a pretty twattish way.

Mmmmmmkay.... since when do nursery workers collect school-age children?

Lovely how you stereotype an entire profession on one or two examples. At what point are you going to bash the parents are obviously so uncaring as to leave their poor neglected children in the care of these crappy nursery workers?

Can't say a bad word about any of the nursery or after-school club workers who look after my kids when I can't be bothered am at work. And none of them are anywhere near 18... funnily enough they have a couple of years' training when they leave school.

Quite right, fraser!

at runnybottom

I know the nursery dd went to did have an after school service. However it was only open to children who had been at the nursery before and the nursery was totally amazing in every sense.

Fraser - they do where I live - a private nursery also acts as a before and after school club so the staff takes turns in doing the school run. That being said, they always seem to be engaged with the children etc when I see them

how can you lump them all together? My DCs went to nursery - actually 2 different ones cos we chose each one individually to suit each child - and to be fair on your observation, I deselected a couple of local nurseries because their carers didn't engage with the children the way I'd like.

Am trying to work out which camp you fall in to Northernlight:
"can afford a nanny so can slag of nursery nurses" (BUT don't you know, there are nannies who abuse their charges when the parents' backs are turned, nurseries can actually be safer cos rarely left alone with charges)

OR "don't need to work cos my DH earns so much that I can stay at home and do as I please" (which could make you no better than any other woman taking money for sex).

PLEASE, don't think that I really mean what I am writing in the brackets, I don't truly believe that all one-on-one carers abuse their charges, nor that all SAHMs are no better than prostitutes... am just trying to prove a point to northernlight that actually we could generalise and judge her in the same way - and it's not nice/fair/true, is it????????

Nicely done lilolil!

I don't know why you ladies are all rising to the op's bait.

Even thought I recognise some truth in what she has posted, why would you indulge her by responding when she has posted in such a crass, ignorant, inflammatory way?

great point bibbity, suggest we just let this ridiculously ignorant OP die.....

FFS... The carers at my DDs nursery are, without exception, remarkably loving and caring to all the children in their care. I dread DD starting nursery as I certain it will come as a real shock to her when she is not cared for in the same way.

I think bibbity is right though and suspect this is just another poster who's bored on a Sunday afternoon.

Sounds more like a lot of the mums around this way.

OP - are you bored, frustrated and unable to get a job or something?

You are terribly misinformed, and clearly have ishooos.

I sometimes get a bit upset at working mum bashing but this is hilarious

What would you like us to say? You are by far the most superior mum ever, are clearly doing the right thing by never letting your children be cared for by such lower beings and you and your family will have better outcomes than others for the rest of your lives?

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