Any childminders given up the school run?

[thisgirlrides]

I'm seriously thinking about giving up the school runs & just focusing on the early years group and wondered if anybody has changed to this and how you found it?

The main thing holding me back is worried the days will seem very long if I'm indoors on my own with 3 little ones all day . Normally we have breakfast, walk to school then head out for the morning either on our own or if we meet a friend at school, come back for lunch, afternoon activity/naps before school run again so bit hectic but the day goes really quickly. Plus, even if we decide not to go out we get to interact with other adults and children on the school run which I may miss.

I'm not too bothered about the income side of things as I've not changed my fees for years and am well below the market rate so could probably up each of my early years by nearly £/hr and still be competitive. Appreciate I won't be able to put that much of an increase on my current children but anyone new coming and I have 1 space in the NY. I do think for anybody that doesn't have school children, it could be a selling point having a cm not doing the school run but want to be realistic.

Any thoughts?

Where we live, it's likely the children you look after when younger would end up going to a different school you collect from anyway
This is definitely true. Out of my 6 current eyfs children, only one of them will go to the school I currently collect from. I don’t think parents necessarily think that long term when choosing a childminder (Obviously some do, but not the majority).

None of the EYFS children I care for would go to my local schools either. I stoped nursery/school runs last Xmas as it was just too much dragging all the littles ones out, waking them from naps early just to pick up the one child. I asked parents if he could use the before and after school club for him they were fine about it and now he’s a holiday only child 😁

I found older kids after school really demanding and argumentative too when I had siblings together