Childminder shopping ? advice please.

msgnomey

My sister is a registered child minder and has always done her shopping outside of her childminding hours unless it was shopping that involved the minded children

Running_Horse

Our childminder has slightly older boys and has regularly taken our daughter shopping and even dental appointments, and why not? It is not realistic to expect her to keep our daughter indoors, and by going along she is being treated as family. I and she see them as normal outings, and it is a way to get to know the real world.

HurdyGurdy

tallulah20 wrote: »

I can't go shopping when I am at work so don't really thing she should when she is at work

But you'd be able to pop out to the shops in your lunch hour, wouldn't you. Childminders don't get tea breaks/lunch breaks etc, and as someone else on the thread said, sometimes you don't even get to go to the loo alone!

That said, I personally wouldn't have taken a mindie out on a shopping trip which was personal to my family (when I was a minder). Trips to choose mindie-stuff (new toys, games, etc) were ok, as were trips to the supermarket for mindie related goods, as they could be fun, and involved the children. I used to print them a small picture list each, of the things we were looking for, for example.

jackomdj

My children go to creche so we do not have this problem. However if they did go to a childminder I would not have an issue with it.

Both my girls, age 4 & 2, love going shopping with me as it is one of the "everyday" things we have to do. I know a lot of people who will get other people to look after their children whilst they shop, when they do have to take them they are a nightmare as they are not used to it.

Nicky

scoobydo_2

Hi I am a registered childminder and has been said by other posters if you chose to put your child with a childminder then they will do things that encourage learning and this can be done in lots of ways including shopping .I take the children shopping but only if i just have one child and then we encorportate colours , numbers shapes ect in our trip .I wouldn't take the child into town clothes shopping though its too much for a little one to sit and be bored and not right this is done in my own time .If I have something specific that I have to do ie bank or dr's I ask if the parent minds first and get their permission .
Yes I work from home and it is a job but I get no lunch break or tea break , its very rare I actually get a hot drink at all ,I think people do underestimate what we do .I personally am giving up two saturdays to do my paedeatric first aid training these are full days which I am not paid for and have to be completed as an ofsted requirement .So if we occasionally do shopping it because we have to , to feed the children .I personally do mine online and get it delivered as its easier .

Running_Horse

Come to think of it, I feel sorry for our childminder having to take my little angel shopping, as she can be a right little monkey sometimes when out.