Before school childcare

[thirtyseven37]

Looks like I'm going to have to turn down yet another job. They need me to be there for 8:10am and I can't drop kids at breakfast club until 8am.

Does anyone employ a nanny/mothers help who arrives early, say around 7:30, helps kids get ready and then takes them to school?

How would I find someone to do this? Who would even want these ridiculous hours??

This is what a friend of mine did. She drops her eldest at the school breakfast club at 8, then her younger 2 at nursery, then dashes across town to the secondary school where she teaches. She says she couldn't do it if she had a tutor group.

I would ask a local mum to come to an arrangement.

I would also look at childminders near your school but that might not help since presumably your child has to get back to another school.

Or you could ask a 6th form student or someone like that.

I had a similar issue years ago. I spoke to the headmistress and she put the word out. A mother of a child in my DD's class would pick her up at 6.45am, keep her at her house and drop her at school. She lived close to us.

Obviously I paid her well as it meant I could commute to London and I was extremely grateful.