Am I mean for sending my child to the childminders on his birthday?
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No issue! He’ll go when he’s in school…
Not at all, my childminder makes a big deal for birthdays and does wee mini parties for them so if his birthday was a childminder day I would still send him, ask you childminder if they do anything like that? Ours just does a couple of party games, sings happy birthday and gives them a tiny bit it cake if we ok it. X
I’m the same but not feeling bad at all. His nursery is lovely and he loves it there. Gonna do little gift bags and treats for his room. Like you, we’ve got quite a bit planned for his celebrations and I just didn’t have enough A/L days to accommodate both x
Absolutely not. The kids don’t really understand it. I work in a nursery, leading a 34 place preschool room and they are always so happy to come in on their birthday to spend it with their friends and have fun. There’s plenty of time for parties on weekends etc. We have had parents in the past ask us not to remind or celebrate their bday on the day and they’ll pretend it’s on the day their party is at the weekend etc which I found odd at first but now, as a parent myself, I totally get the mum guilt lol. If they do allow us to celebrate it, they always get a card made by us & all the kids in the room & we sing happy birthday to them with a little wooden cake 🥰 some parents bring cake in to sing with but with allergies and preferences and some not allowed sweet puddings, the wooden one works best Xx
He’ll love it! My daughter is 6 next month on a Saturday and is gutted she won’t be at school to celebrate with her friends all day! She has had most of her birthdays in nursery or school. Your childminder will make such a fuss out of him 🥰
Thanks everyone, you've definitely eased the mum guilt 😊
No. I work in a nursery and children love celebrating with their friends. Send him in with a cake or something to make it special and he will have a great time. Also it sounds like a lovely weekend of birthday celebrations so he won’t be missing out. I work term time so wouldn’t even be able to take my daughter’s birthday off work even if I wanted to. So she would have to attend if her birthday fell on a nursery day.