Grandmother childminding please help

Penny-Pincher!!

sh1305 wrote: »

This depends entirely on the college. With mine, it was no different to the hours that wre at my old school - except it was only 3 days and not 5. We also had haf terms and the Christmas nad Easter holidays.

With uni, it was completely different. There was no half trm ("reading week") and the days were sometimes longer.

Uni students do get longer summer and Xmas holidays though and generally a full-time average degree (not law or medicine) totals 18-19hrs pw actually in the classroom.

I know Cambridge and Oxford have longer holidays than other universities but they do work an average longer day.

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LondonDiva

My contac5t time was 8 hours a week:D:D:D, my boyfriends & brothers (all sciences & maths) used to take the p1ss out of life as a humanities student:D:D:D My mate at Aston doing business told me she had to do a 9-5 day :D:D

My parents could not afford to support me at uni, so I worked just under full time (35 hours), while doing the course, being part of societies/uni paper and also had a couple of cash in hand babysitting, cleaning etc jobs to slot in if needed.

Lord, I feel tired just thinking about it!

Penny-Pincher!!

LondonDiva wrote: »

My contac5t time was 8 hours a week:D:D:D, my boyfriends & brothers (all sciences & maths) used to take the p1ss out of life as a humanities student:D:D:D My mate at Aston doing business told me she had to do a 9-5 day :D:D

My parents could not afford to support me at uni, so I worked just under full time (35 hours), while doing the course, being part of societies/uni paper and also had a couple of cash in hand babysitting, cleaning etc jobs to slot in if needed.

Lord, I feel tired just thinking about it!

LondonDiva.....do you know you've been a role model for my daughter since I joined this site:D.....Ive always told her about your positive posts and how hard work moulds your future and makes you a better person.

I got married at 19 and had DD at 20 so I never got the chance to go to Uni whilst living at home, plus I was kicked out at 16....but thats a whole other story:D

I had always worked since the age of 14 and went full-time at 16 and went on all courses I could, did my NVQ's 2-5 in Management, Certificate In IPD, 2 Years PT at Uni (didnt finish as health got bad) in Human Resources, Child Protection, some law studies blah blah all whilst having a child and OH working self employed. We always paid for help as we didnt have family to rely on but mainly worked around DD with different work shifts and OH mainly worked from home.

I know that most people have genuine reasons why they cant do this or that, but some people just make excuses when all it needs is hard work, effort and common sense.

OP I did want to say that I think you wanting to go to Uni is fabulous. Maybe sit down with pen and paper and write down what needs to be sorted to enable you to achieve this. You could also contact the Uni and ask what hrs they expect or if you could do it part-time.

OH was thinking about doing his Architecture degree and it was only 4 years instead of 3 if he went PT and it was for just 1 afternoon and evening per week.

HTH

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LondonDiva

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

LondonDiva.....do you know you've been a role model for my daughter since I joined this site:D.....Ive always told her about your positive posts and how hard work moulds your future and makes you a better person.

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Spendless

redrooney wrote: »

No ,i wont go to college ,i will look after my own kids as no help is put in place ,dont know why i have i would have to work 16 hours a week ,when i would be going to college full time !! :mad:

Because that is the rules of the tax credit system for help with childcare costs. BOTH of you have to be working for at least 16 hours each to qualify and studying doesn't count. Childcare vouchers have no such rule (we used them for me to study for this very reason). Has your girlfriend looked into if her employer offer them? The rules for you mother accepting them as a childminder would be the same, she would need to register and also be looking after one other child as well as your own. I personally wouldn't object to a childminder who was granny to the other kids, as the huge majority of childminders have young children of their own that they are looking after at the same time.

Having said all this, I do think ONW suggestion of a course that would include help with childcare costs should be looked at too.

thorsoak

redrooney wrote: »

i dont think you know what your talking about ! if you knew how much work is needed for the coarse i am thinking of taking ,and do you know how hard it is to look after twins and then to do another 16 hours work on top ,i dont think so ,its been hard anouth 2 of us looking after the twins ,so before shouting your mouth off ,get your facts straight ,im far from a scrounger ,ive worked everyday of my working life until getting my injury !! !!!!!

Don't talk to me about knowing how hard it is to look after twins ....I had 4 children, a brain-damaged OH, a full-time job which entailed 3 hours commute each day AND I managed without additional help (well actually, there was no additional help available - either I did it and paid the mortgage & put food on the table or we lost the house - simples )

I am so glad to read that you are not a scrounger and worked every day of your working life until your injury ....how long was that? 5 years?

susan1105

I use a friend who is a childminder, it took her nine months for the process to be completed for her to get her ofsted number. It is a lot of work would highly recommend that your mum has a indepth look into the process.

I have twins and a nine year old and I know it is a lot of hard work before husband leaving my mum use to look after the boys while i was in work as with me working we where just above the thershold for help, and pay a childminder would have been more than I was paid.

I know its not a good solution but would you consider getting a part time job and once the twins are in school then go to uni and you would only need a little bit of help.

I understand where you are coming from highly recommend your mum makes some phone calls and speaks to a local childminder.

You are best waiting till after they are one also as alot of childminders can not have more than one baby under the age of one, some can have upto three under age three.

Susan

Susan