Posts Tagged ‘nursery’
Home Alone – It’s not who you are but what you do that makes the difference to your child’s home learning
Nov 29 2020- Junesweb2018
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Home Learning became a big issue during our first lockdown. The importance of connecting with children and families, the offer of teaching support and the nurturing of friendships was a surprisingly powerful wake up call for so many. This lockdown is a bit different because nurseries are still available for anyone who wants to use them. However, there were some lessons that we learnt during lockdown that we need to consider and develop further.
Preparing your child for their return to nursery – and a new normal
Sep 02 2020- Junesweb2018
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Being a parent is great fun but also full of challenges and anxieties. The rise of social media and easy access to everyone’s opinion cannot help as it’s difficult to extract fact from opinion. Never was this more alive than during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. It was compounded by the Government guidance continually changing as they discovered new information.
We have about two million families in England with children aged under five, and nearly 87% of them use some form of formal childcare. What did they say about their lockdown. It is a mixed picture. Some families loved the experience of lockdown and had a ball, others didn’t do so well. For some parents’ lockdown started fine but, as the weeks ran into months, pressure soon mounted and they began to burnout. Parents working from home with small children found it very stressful and said they were exhausted and used the “screen” as a babysitter more than normally to try and get some work done. There were tussles as to the parent roster? Who did more of the childcare? Whose job could be done at night? Whose Zoom call was more pressing? Double demands if you were a single parent.
Childcare Costs Soar by 19% in 12 months
Jan 12 2014- Monica Costa
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Are we surprised about the rising cost of childcare year on year? I often give interviews to media about this topic which is the single most important issue for families in Britain and I say that mothers (or dads in turns) often decide to stay at home as they cannot afford childcare costs while our European counterparts only pay between the equivalent of £250 to £500 per month per full time childcare per child versus £1500 in London.
