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Paid childcare

Discuss everything related to paid childcare here, including childminders, nannies, nurseries and au pairs.

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Saw another CM today Leave one mindee and her own child in car ..

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EvesMama · 05/07/2006 14:59

whilst she picked up second mindee from school!!!
her child is just over 3 and mindee looked about 5 ish..parked on main road and took 2 minute walk through (lockable after you) 2 lots of gates and waited outside until class was opened by teacher...good ten minutes with two kids(one her own) sat in car on own...am very

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EvesMama · 05/07/2006 19:16

did i over react..is this the done thing??
got to say i wouldnt dream of it!

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moondog · 05/07/2006 19:17

I do that every single day.
Safer than trying to control two at roadside for 10 mins.
Get a grip.

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EvesMama · 05/07/2006 19:18

dya know i am grateful for the response, but why do you have to put get a grip at the end?

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moondog · 05/07/2006 19:20

Oh it's a joke Evesmama!

Sorry if I hurt your feelings.

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EvesMama · 05/07/2006 19:22

so sorry moondog, should have known from you really..just had that on a few threads recently..always thought i had a good grip really!

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moondog · 05/07/2006 19:23

I'm sure you do EM.
I think if in eyesight it's fine.
It does myback in pulling ds in and out all the time.v

jellyjelly · 05/07/2006 19:26

I think it is very bad to do this. Wont do sarcasim but only coz i cant spell it!.

Can you report her for the childrens safety?

daisy1999 · 05/07/2006 19:28

I would report her. Bad enough with her own kids but she shouldn't be leaving mindees.

looneytune · 05/07/2006 19:29

Sorry but it's not on at all and I totally agree with you EvesMama! A mother doing that is fine if they choose to but a childminder should know better. Yes, it's a pain to drag several kids out but it's our job to make sure everyone in our care is safe! I don't even leave my little mindee in the pram when I collect the other 2 from nursery (everyone else parks kids outside the door) - I get her out, collect the kids and deal with an almighty fight to get her strapped back in!

So, I think you are right to be worried!

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EvesMama · 05/07/2006 19:35

well that was yesterday, today she had a different mindee only about2 years if that and she got him and her own child out of car to take them in.
so maybe she thought the 5 year old could look after herself and 3 year old!
its not in eyesight either, it a good 2 minute walk from gates to school door behind other gates like i said..i know her and i cant believe shed do something like this!

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nikki48023506 · 05/07/2006 19:35

I totally agree they shouldn't be left in the car. It may be too much of an effort getting them in and out of the car, but so much can happen when your back is turned for 5 mins with all the weirdo's about. I certainly wouldn't do it. My friend and her child minder used to do it until someone else reported her and child minder to social services.

dmo · 05/07/2006 19:42

would never leave children in a car on their own even my own and they are 8 and 10 after a horror story i was told:
a grandma took her two children out for the day aged 7mths and 3yrs, on the way home she needed to nip to chemist and children had just gone to sleep (chemist was across the road) so locking the car to keep the children safe grandma went to chemist on her return got knocked down by a car and taking to hospital unconious.
the two children died in the car of over heating
the seat belt of the 3yr old had been chewed
after that story not matter if they are asleep or not i would never leave a child in a car

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EvesMama · 05/07/2006 19:44

i took dd to fish and chip shop today..we parked literally two feet away from door..i thought about it for one second..then common sense prevailed..i just couldnt no matter how far fetched people think the chances are of something happening.its like the htread about leaving children at home and popping out

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DevilsAdvocado · 05/07/2006 19:48

Have to say I agree with Moondog. My childminder leaves my dd in her car til she runs to the school gate to get her own children. I know she does this as I have been early for pick up and have driven past them sat at the school, I don't have a problem with it.

I wouldn't do it myself but then I only have 2. She has 5 altogether and it seems to be easier for her to leave them in the car at the gate. I have to say though, that she is no more than about 10 footsteps away so maybe a bit different to what EM is saying.

SenoraPostrophe · 05/07/2006 19:49

I do sometimes leave the kids in the car, but 10 mins is a long time. I wouldn't leave them for that long - not so much because of what "could" happen, but because they might fight and one might scream their head off for 10 mins.

compo · 05/07/2006 19:51

at dmo's story... that is horrific

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EvesMama · 05/07/2006 19:52

just me, but as i wouldnt do it(as a mum about to start minding) i would never expect my CM to do it..but thats me.

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SenoraPostrophe · 05/07/2006 19:53

dmo - surely that story (if it's true, which I doubt actually) just shows that you shouldn't lock your kids in the car with the windows shut? which is obvious if you ask me.

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EvesMama · 05/07/2006 19:56

but then youd worry about leaving them open in case they climbed out/got hand stuck.

mum at onestop shop other day was behind me adn ran out when alarm started going off..shed left one LO in car, brought other one in and put alarm on with him in it..alarm kept going of when he moved!?..just take him in with you!!!!!!!must have took her 15 minutes to buy whatever she went for!

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Wordsmith · 05/07/2006 19:56

Yes that story sounds a bit dodgy to me!

dmo · 05/07/2006 19:57

it is true was in local paper last year

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EvesMama · 05/07/2006 19:57

maybe, but it has happend to animals when left in car, its likely something similar has happend with children(maybe not grandma bit~?)

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DevilsAdvocado · 05/07/2006 19:59

Erm.. just how long had she left them in the car then? Has anyone ever tried to chew a seat belt? and how did all this happen without anyone seeing? Decidedly dodgy and scaremongering.

Wordsmith · 05/07/2006 19:59

I could never leave DS2 (2) in the car - not because he'd overheat or get kidnapped, but because gfiven half the chance he'd be able to unbuckle his safety belt, then work out how to turn on the engine and drive it away. He's a very - ahem - inquisitive child. This week he's reprogrammed my washing machine, tumble drier and dishwasher, nearly broken my computer, unsrewed the cap on the suncream and got it everywhere, and helped himself to a puff of my asthma inhaler!

Elf1981 · 05/07/2006 20:02

Dont want to say I dont believe dmo's post but if it is true, speaks something of society in a whole - most chemists are on fairly busy roads, I refuse to believe that somebody wouldn't have seen the kids in the car and been concerned. I know I would have been, and you know how ambulances causes people to stare at what is going on.

Anyway, my CM sits in the car with her mindees while the school ones come out, but the school kids are 11 and she parks right outside the gate.

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