Comments on: “Nurseries aren’t for working parents”

By: idea15

idea15 — Sat, 23 May 2009 09:40:31 +0000

Thanks for the kind words. I hope you get some help with your situation soon. Ironically political developments since I first wrote this article have confirmed for once and for all how warped Labour is – anyone who works for a living is obviously some greedy corporate fatcat who must be punished and taxed to the hilt, because people who work are not being fair to people who don’t work. You and I fall into that category – obviously we work and we want to work, therefore we get nothing. Unbelievable.

Our little one has secured her nursery place for January, although bizarrely enough the nursery wants us in for her orientation next week. I feel that’s a bit cruel to her. “Here, darling, play around in this fun place which you won’t be allowed to see again for another seven months.”

By: scaussie

scaussie — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:44:29 +0000

To be expected to work full time and travel 4 hours a day on top of full time hours is neither responsible or acceptable to place on a child or its mother in my opinion.

This situation that you have been placed in is really not acceptable and not fair to your family.

There are many faults in the current system and this just highlights just how unfriendy towards hard working families labour is.

My personal situation is that I have a husband and had a daughter in February 2008. I was a very successful contractor before the baby and was ready to get back to work when she was 9mths old. I am having great difficulty in trying to balance getting a contract, secure a nursery place and ensuring that the nursery is paid on time. The other worry I have is that I could end up working for very little after all the costs I would pay out. I feel very desperate at times.

There is a government nursery down the road to me and I really like their ethos, in fact if I was remove costs from my criteria it is my first choice for a nursery.
Help is available as you pointed out if you fall into certain categories. I guess our family should be grateful that we do not fall into some of the categories but this is of no comfort or benefit to our family wellbeing now. I have wondered about hiring a nanny or au pair and sharing the costs with 1 or 2 other parents so that my daughter could mix with other children but I have not seriously looked into it.

Your article was very interesting and highlighted a few things I didn’t know; I did not know that abused children were still allowed to stay with there parents!!! IS IT A WONDER THAT OUR SYSTEM IS FAILING OUR CHILDREN??? It beggers belief and angers me greatly.

Thanks for the read, it is admirable that you have started your own business whilst bringing up your baby (not easy) and I wish you all the luck while you wait until age 3 x

By: idea15

idea15 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:07:01 +0000

I have no problem with the other children there. They didn’t choose to be born into their families. I do have a problem with labelling children under the age of three as “scallywags” – real big of you to scapegoat infants for their parents’ faults – so please take your paranoid excoriation elsewhere.

By: Stuart Blunden

Stuart Blunden — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:56:33 +0000

Would you really want your children to come in contact with the children of the Parents who you say get priority for places ?

Childrens centres it seems are the governments method of trying to get at the children of the already non conformist parents in an effort that their children do not turn out the same way.

Apparently its for the benefit of the whole community that these scallywags are brainwashed at an early as possible age.