as a childminder would i still get work...

[Hopandpop]

if i only choose to work term times, my daughter needs some more mummy time as she is having a few issues at school and would like to spend the summer and christmas hols with her , do you think iw ould still get work?

Course you would, quite a few of mine are TT only now. I do know a couple of minders that work a couple of weeks during the summer hols and none of the others. It seems to work ok for them a lot of places run sports camp type things now which are pretty cheap.

It depends where you live, I only offer term time contracts and emergency ad hoc care in the holidays and I haven't had many enquiries recently.
Now is the time I usually get them as teachers are due to start new contracts in september. I'm in a rural village and there are many grandmas and extended families that help with childcare near me.
I also have my own children and after the first year of childminding I dropped working in the holidays and after school as my own children got fed up with it especially in the winter as we only have a small house and the playroom is our living room and it just didn't work.

I would be very happy with a terrm time only childminder I think. I have 2 DCs, the firts one is in nursery part time and the second one isn't. At the moment I have a part time nanny, but if I were to stop using a nanny I would like to finid a childminder for the days that my DS1 was in nursery to give me completely free time, and keep them both at home on DS1's school holidays.

There are plenty of teachers and others who work in the education sector who need good quality childcare in term times only. In fact I have probably had more parents of mindees who are teachers in the last five or so years than those in other areas of employment.

Once you have minded one teacher's child, you will often get word-of-mouth recommendations via "staff room talk". I had one teacher contact me recently from the school where two of the other mindees parents work, when she was just 16 weeks pregnant!

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