CM Club - Just wanted a quick moan

[ThePrisoner]

It is now 2.30pm on this lovely, sunny Saturday afternoon. I have spent all morning since 9.30am doing paperwork, and I am really really fed-up with it.

I love my job, and I love having lots of fun with children. I work long hours during the week, and look forward to my weekends to "have a break." I haven't even had my lunch yet. I don't think people really appreciate just how much we have to put into this childminding lark.

That's it, rant over.

oh my god - that made me laugh out loud

seriously though my mindees bring a packed lunch - cheese strings/frubes/etc YUCK - one of them was very puzzled when i was eating cucumber and asked what it was that mindee doesn't seem to like any F&V another eats all my fruit

so i did put a bag of oranges on my expeses this week

Oh my goodness, I really need to start doing more paperwork!!

I do a daily diary and put photos in it occasionally, and do a photo pack at christmas, but seems I am going to get a shock in September too!

I need to do EYFS training but there isn't any around here for a while so I guess I will have to wait until I find out exactly what will be required!

note to self - buy a fridge thermomter!

I have 4......big fridge little fridge, big freezer little freezer - do you think that's overkill?

mmm. . . . perhaps!! can me ans SB have one

southernbelle- have you got the EYFS pack? it'll give you all the info you need[although to be honest i read it and read it but i doesn't seem to get absorbed into my brain

Have you had B23 training - it is very similar

Can you both come & do my homework please?????

you can download it or order it online at: teachernet

or get it from DfES publications tel:0845 60 222 60

No neither of them will help my homework.....here?

eeekkkk - homework ..... run away!!!!!

i really have to go and have a shower with ds as he is nagging me and driving me crazy . . . sorry

but i'll be back - what you gotta do?

sorry those were for southernbelle!

i'll look at your homework later

I know I was teasing

doh

Well after googleing at least I know I want to be a situational leader with forays into transformational leadsership

To quote you Doh!!!

Thanks for the links! I will have a look at them in detail later (when dd isn't hanging off me )

I love childminding and I don't really mind doing paperwork (as yet given I hardly do any ) but I am worried that I really know nothing of all the new legislation coming and if I didn't come on here, I wonder if I ever would hear about it!!

I 'cheated' with my fridge and freezer thermometers, I have 2 freezers and have organised them so only one contains any food i might use for mindees, thereby saving myself the whopping sum of £3.50 for the third thermometer!

I have had my EYFS training and it all seemed ok-ish (lots of the things are common sense!) except the tutor could not really answer the 'how often do we need to do obs and how much should we write' questions....it seems to be up to us and as long as we do some and show Ofsted we do some then that's okay....

yeah, in our training we were told we don't have to do a certain amount every whatever, we were told to just note down things as and when relevant which seems fair.