Oh poo... should I shouldn't I?

[Twiglett]

An acquaitance / potential friend needs a childminder for 2 days a week from November .. she's happy to pay me £50 a day for 9am to 6pm .. should I re-register as a childminder?

I didn't particularly like it last time .. did it 1 day a week for someone I didn't know .. but then I had to be up and have house clean before DS was awake .. and I was newly pregnant ... I was quite happy whilst child was here .. it was the day before / morning I resented

I now have to be up anyway .. because of DS going to school .. and it seems like it would fit in our day very nicely .. DD will be 2 .. this baby (who smells gorgeous by the way) will be a year old

should I?

sounds like you should tbh. It's not going to make that much difference and you get paid sometihng.

if you feel it would be worthwhile why not? you seem to have thought over everything anyway, i have just set up as childminder about to be approved on 5th April(scotland) my ds is nearly 7 and dd nearly 3 so a perfect age to start working again!

it would certainly be financially worthwile .. £100 a week would come in very handy

I suppose it wouldn't impact on DS having playdates

DD might enjoy it

BUT

if I don't like doing it, I might feel obliged
I'll have to re-register .. I can't bear the ofsted people for some reason.. hope to god I don't need to do their namby-pamby course again .. what a pile of crap (IMO)

surely if you have been to a course last time you won't have to do it again unless it has changed dramatically, you don't have to do any course where i am they just reccomend it!

No. If you're not going to embrace childminding in a full-on positive way, don't do it.

bollocks tinker ... why should I embrace it in a full-on positive way .. why should that make me not do it

fine, I don't want a career at it ..

but I happen to be bloody good with kids and it may fit in with my life

but it may not .. that's why I'm chundering on on here

I do know the person who asked me would be very happy if I said yes

Well do it then. Blinkin' Nora!

Personally I think you should do it. £100 a week and a suitable candidate for DD to be bossing around instead of you... 2 days a week is good - you can still suit yourself totally on the other 3 days.

Don't see why it should impact on DS's playdates at all, unless you are in the habit of inviting an army of 5 yos round. Would have thought you might have to stick to the numbers, but that would mean that DS could have 3 friends round before you would need another adult. Personally I think that four 5yos is more than enough.

I'd say no for the reason you mentioned about feeling obliged. I really liked the last people I minded for and the kids were lovely, it fitted in, the money was handy, etc, etc and she'd have been delighted for me to mind her youngest child who's six months younger than ds2. At the end of the day though, when I thought it through, I just knew I didn't want to do it and my heart wouldn't have been in it, not even for one day a week. So I'm £50 a week worse off, but happier for it and will go back to some kind of work when the time is right.

tinker ..

i think you should as youre realistic and know what it entails now.