MSE Parents Club Part 12

searching_me

ooo ss thats a good idea ..

mel you're right they do forget and i would feel guilty ...

so beenie is that how you wash your son :rotfl: x

SusanC_2

Evansangel wrote: »

She also worked full time whilst her mum looked after the baby within a few days of its birth.

In the UK people are legally obliged to take at least two weeks maternity leave after giving birth (or four weeks if they work in a factory).

BeenieCat

searching_me wrote: »

so beenie is that how you wash your son :rotfl: x

:eek::eek: Of course not!!!!!


It's how i dry him :rotfl:

Evansangel

SusanC wrote: »

In the UK people are legally obliged to take at least two weeks maternity leave after giving birth (or four weeks if they work in a factory).

It prob was 2 weeks, i was just repeating info that SIL gave me

SusanC_2

Evansangel wrote: »

She mentioned BLW, but only to say "Some woman wrote a book on something called BLW, but i think its rubbish and kids that are BLW dont know how to use cutlery, also they never experiance pureed food, and they need to experiance it as we as adults have pureed food (mash, gravy, jelly, etc)

What rubbish. Alice just started choosing to use cutlery of her own accord because we made it available with every meal if we were using it. I remember one of our friends being really impressed by Alice's cutlery use as it was better than her children who are two and nearly five yeras older than Alice. And given that babies who eat purees manage to cope with solid foods later on I can't see any basis for her other claim. I wish (with lots of things) people would just say they don't really know anything about it rather than spouting misinformation.

got-it-spend-it

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

It did succeed in sc-rewing many small companies over though - speaking from bitter experience.

I thought I saw at one stage that Child Benefit would be restricted for higher earners too but I can't find any reference to it. I would have liked to see that happen (even though it would probably mean me not getting it) and I would also liked to have seen the winter fuel allowance restricted for pensioners with high incomes too....far too many people getting money that they simply don't need.

They decided that it would be too costly to means test CB so have decided to freeze it instead to save money....'cos that has the same effect, doesn't it :mad:.

SusanC_2

gill_81uk wrote: »

Wow that's a bit mean reducing backdating to a month! When does that start from?? I wont be impressed as I only sent mine off yesterday lol

I think it's from April 2011 or 12. It does seem a bit unreasonable to expect people who've just had their first child to claim within a month - especially since you have six weeks to register the birth.

SugarSpun

Pink!!

Thank you so much for my fairy card!!!!

redmel1621

csh wrote: »

Good budget I thought. No surprises and a few things I was pleased to see.

The VAT increase was always on the cards. Get annoyed when I think back to when Labour dropped it to 15%. Cost our company hundreds of thousands in staff and printing costs to change prices over! I had to do a 15 hr shift to sort my shop out and did it 'encourage people to spend' like they said it would? Did it fluck!! lol

Haha, the VAT thing is quite funny really...when Labour cut it to 15% everyone was saying what a waste of time it was and 2.5% is such a small decrease it won't make a difference to peoples spending habits.....

But now that it has gone up by 2.5% it is being classed as a HUUUUGE increase and we won't be able to cope with it going up that much!!!!

I didn't think the budget was toooooo bad, not great and things aren't exactly going to be easy for anyone, but hopefully we can al just get through it:D

SusanC_2

Evansangel wrote: »

It prob was 2 weeks, i was just repeating info that SIL gave me

Sorry - I hope it didn't sound like I thought you were being dishonest. I meant that if she had said she was only off for a few days then she may not have been entirely honest.