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Daycare is 200 a week for 1 kid

Feeling apprehensive about the place allocations tomorrow! I’ll be refreshing the portal all day I think 😅 How’s everyone else feeling?

How’s everyone feeling about there babies going into school September 😭 tomorrows the day 🩵

Tomorrow are we gonna know which schools our( litte babies )will go ? Are we gonna get like eamil or we need to go on some website to see results? Thank you

sending love to all the mamas finding out their little ones primary school place tomorrow.. i cannot believe they’ve grown this fast❤️

Hope all us mummas get their chosen schools for our little bubbas! Only feels like yesterday I joined this group.. how has it gone so quickly :(

So tomorrow we find out school places.. how does everyone feel? Is anyone choosing for their child to attend part time or even home ed instead?

How is everyone feeling? I feel very emotional and scared knowing my first born will be starting fulltime school in September 🥺 Please teach your children to be kind!

My son is 3 in December this year when do we apply for primary school as he will be starting in January 2025 I think

What’s everyone’s working/childcare arrangements atm? How many hours do you work, family help with care?, nursery, childminders etc? Feel like my current situation isn’t working and need a change but unsure how to make it work

Is there any way to change the child benefit to be paid monthly instead of weekly? Just thinking it’d be easier to buy it all in bulk when I have all the money at once instead of going the shop every week to buy the things as we only have a co op near us and the pampers are £7 for 20🫣

Hi everyone I have a summer internship in New York 9-5 m-f and I’m looking for affordable daycare in New York someone trustworthy for the summer I really don’t want to loose this opportunity it’s life changing for me so please if you know anyone trustworthy who you trust your kids with lmk

So how is everyone feeling about finding out the primary school place our babies have got tomorrow? I’m so worried! Doesn’t help I’ll be in work when I find out 🙈

I found a few childminders locally who are a good option but I’m a bit surprised by their contracts. 1) they take 6 weeks holidays a year and you still have to pay them but they reduce the daily rate by a third 2) don’t work bank holidays and you still have to pay 3) charge £15 a day extra if you use government fund...

Is there somewhere where I can donate baby stuff? We have a lot of extra and want to donate it to moms in need

I've heard about seriously long waiting lists to get children into nursery but wondering if anyone knows if that's the same in/around Gateshead? I'm not sure how far in advance we need to start looking at trying to book a place? If anyone knows anything or has any advice that would be fab 😊

Hey guys, I am new to California, I am looking for some good options to help my 2.3 yr old daughter to grow. I see here in san diego cost of day care is too high so I want to check any other good option my husband earns but that is just good for our survival we are not able to accommodate day care fee in our budget...

Is feltham hill a forest school? Does anyone send their child here? What's it like? I'm exploring the idea of sending my son to a forest school but need to do a lot of research. If there's any other forest schools in the borough please let me know your experience?

Just looking for some advice - is this a thing? I’m thinking like how we used to do at school when you would take in sweets / chocolates for your birthday (but obviously you can’t do that)! For context, my baby has been in nursery since Jan and will be 1 this week, when I dropped her this morning they said they’d be...

States is for eligible working parents. Is that both parents working? Dad is full time but I am a sahm, will that be a problem?