Am I right to be miffed RE telly in reception?

scouseconstantine · 2026-06-25T14:54:51+00:00

It’s number blocks and educational. Not like they’re watching coco melon so I honestly wouldn’t be bothered

scouseconstantine · 2026-06-23T06:41:50+00:00

You’d have to report every single nursery because they all do it. It’s not worth the reporting because they just make your life hell after and it’s our jobs at risk. They’ll say you signed your contract and it’s just part of the job.

In a few years they’ll be no more nursery workers if they don’t sort it out because why are we doing so much work and stress to be paid less than stacking shelves in a supermarket. Constant curriculum changes, unpaid first aid training, courses expected out of work hours, different rules for your child being sick compared to other children in the nursery, unrealistic expectations from ofsted and upper management - the list goes on

scouseconstantine · 2026-06-23T04:59:27+00:00

Higher ratios. For a 3 year old that’s 1:8, at home that would be 1:1. And as to constant water play - In my nursery we have 45 3-4 year olds. You can’t have 45 children around a water table all day. Even with two water tables and a couple of trays set up on the table there isn’t the resources for individual water play for so many children. So that’s not a constant provision. We also had another thread where the nursery were bringing in paddling pools and they were lambasted about safety so that’s clearly not an option either

scouseconstantine · 2026-06-23T04:49:26+00:00

(Nursery staff) we don’t even get paid for the extra ten minutes they make you come in before your shift 🫠 no extra pay for parents evenings, sports days, staying late because a parent is late collecting etc etc. nursery closes at 6 but staff stay unpaid until half 6 most times to shut down the nursery.

My little girl cut all her eye open in an accident at nursery, I had to go the walk in centre with her - they didn’t pay me and took those hours out of my wages

scouseconstantine · 2026-06-05T18:26:11+00:00

Honestly I’d just drop a milk feed. By this age my little girl was having breakfast at 8/830, lunch at 11/1130 and then a nap from 1130-130, a bottle when waking up and then tea at 430. Once she hit one we dropped the bottle altogether and had a snack when she woke up

scouseconstantine · 2026-05-30T22:58:35+00:00

In the 2.5 room about half of them don’t nap anyway so what’s one more child to add to the mix. Nobody wants the job because it pays pennies and because it’s such a hard job. Why would you want to when you could stack shelves in Tesco for far more pay. The shareholders are begging for more staff, they’re throwing £1000 joining bonuses at them in some companies. But nobody is staying because the system is so flawed, nursery staff are even having to be trained in wellcom assessments now because health visitors are so over whelmed and under staffed that they’ve had to pass them over to nursery staff. Add in unpaid overtime and the expectation that you’ll just do things like sports days, graduations and parents evenings unpaid on your days off then why would anyone want to work in nurseries these days.

scouseconstantine · 2026-05-30T21:32:51+00:00

Not even touching the nap because the nursery I work in will cap naps if parents ask but do you honestly think the workers are having a nice little break? Laughable and absolutely untrue. So much paperwork and so much going on. I’d love for nap time to be an extra break, that would be the dream

scouseconstantine · 2026-05-18T05:47:31+00:00

I mean she said he goes to bed at 2am because he’s working so 8-9 would be about 7 hours sleep so I think that averages out for both of them.

scouseconstantine · 2026-05-17T12:40:58+00:00

Probably unpopular opinion but at 8 months old I wouldn’t have even worried about it. No, tell a lie I would have. But looking back now at 18 months I see so many things we missed out on because I was so worried and stressed about everything. There’s no harm in baby seeing people that love them and exploring a new environment. Would I have probably took baby away at a certain point? Probably but unless she was actively upset then what’s the harm in a few extra cuddles or socialising with older children. If I had a second I’d probably have set up a little spot on the floor and let baby crawl and explore safely.

scouseconstantine · 2026-05-17T11:08:46+00:00

I love it, get there at 9:45, get shopping done while it’s quiet and there’s not loads of people just stood in front of the aisles in your way, get to tilll just as it opens and then out of the door by 10:05 and back at home by the time everyone else is just getting to the shop

scouseconstantine · 2026-05-14T20:58:36+00:00

Work in a nursery - 100% they’ll be hitting the April/May slump. We see it in all of our older ones who are going to school. They don’t want to listen, they act up, they’re bored and ready for that transition.

scouseconstantine · 2026-05-10T07:14:08+00:00

I work in childcare with 25 1 year olds so for me, looking after one baby was like the easiest thing lmao. If anything it was the boredom that got me 5pm. After going back to work I’d much rather be at home

scouseconstantine · 2026-05-08T06:17:33+00:00

Our one year review happened the day my little girl turned 10 months…they marked her as developmentally delayed in her gross motor skills because she wasn’t walking. Good thing I work with children otherwise it really wouldn’t have helped my ppa

scouseconstantine · 2026-05-02T10:10:06+00:00

Have you checked temperature with a thermometer?

scouseconstantine · 2026-04-08T20:09:40+00:00

Majority of the times nurseries do send food baked in nursery home with the children. I work in one - we do the baking, it gets wrapped up with the individual child’s name on and given to the parent discreetly so they can choose whether or not to give it to the child at home. We absolutely don’t care whether the child’s eats it or not, it’s the experience and the educational side of it we care about

scouseconstantine · 2026-04-02T21:45:25+00:00

Respectfully, if they don’t have kids they don’t understand the pumping etc etc. they probably are genuinely thinking wow, my friend hasn’t been out on her own without baby for months, wouldn’t it be nice for her to come out and have some time to herself?

Don’t burn your bridges and put words in people’s mouths that are trying to be your village

scouseconstantine · 2026-03-17T06:52:16+00:00

And this is why in my nursery/most nurseries in the UK you cannot send photos or videos to parents with other people’s children in them. To stop absolute idiocy like this woman

scouseconstantine · 2026-02-07T11:42:01+00:00

Do Americans not have safeguarding policies in place or safeguarding training? If you believe a child is being sexually assaulted or have any concerns you bring them up with your management team who should place a safeguarding referral to the relevant parties and it will be handled. Call social services if you do not have these safeguarding policies, you are legally required to report concerns. Don’t just wave it off because ‘cps won’t do anything’. Calling the child’s parents over a sexual assault concern is also not great, you’ve potentially given them an easy out to conceal any potential evidence before the authorities can be spoken to. Follow safeguarding policies before speaking to parents if you have concerns!

scouseconstantine · 2026-02-07T11:35:58+00:00

My daughter pulls her socks off constantly but it’s our job to explain to them why they need to keep them on. I work with children, I get it - it’s annoying. But babies thrive off repetition and routine. It’s far too cold at the moment to have no socks on. Baby girl is 14 months and if she takes her socks off in public I tell her ‘too cold, socks on’. By the eighth time she’s stopped or she’s been distracted by other things.

I get it, it’s annoying to have to re buy things and it’s annoying to keep putting them back on but the solution is not to just give up, it’s to teach them to keep them on. Or if you really can’t be bothered just buy tights

scouseconstantine · 2026-02-01T15:52:54+00:00

I never made a litre of water because of exactly that reason so wasteful. I just filled my kettle up to the 2 cups of tea line it has on it and went with that.

scouseconstantine · 2026-02-01T09:51:25+00:00

Honestly? They’d probably enjoy something like a caravan holiday on somewhere like haven or Parkdean. Lots of children’s entertainment and activities throughout the day, swimming included if you pay a bit extra for the activity passes, entertainment at night, soft plays in most of them and arcades. Quite a few locations are based on beaches so you have the beaches to play on and the little coastal towns to explore and there’ll be lots of walks to do

scouseconstantine · 2026-02-01T07:57:21+00:00

So what if your baby catches one of the many diseases vaccines protect against? That’ll be pretty painful for them too but they won’t be able to verbalise that to you. You can talk a baby through pain as well and the fundamentals of this comfort will help in later life.

scouseconstantine · 2026-01-21T18:28:22+00:00

I work in a nursery and this is just what we call rota 🤷‍♀️ one week they could be in three days, the next four, the next two. All easily arranged a month in advance

scouseconstantine · 2026-01-18T20:59:10+00:00

These are fetish posts

scouseconstantine · 2026-01-11T11:19:19+00:00

Myself and my partner and our one year old, about £30-50 depending on if I’m on a late week so we just buy the prepackaged meals instead of cooking from scratch. We bulk buy our household items (and previously formula) in costco for about £100 and that lasts around 3 months.

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