Childminder or nursery

My daughter will be going to a childminder 🙂 Nursery is expensive, the ones around me had really long waitlists and I don’t like the thought of her coming home sick all the time. I’m sure she will from childminder, but it’s less children and more focused time she will have with the minder. Also helps her cousin will be there!

My little boy will be going to a childminder in June. I went to visit a nursery and just didn’t think it was suitable for him as I like to think of a childminders as a home from home especially when they are so young still .
Nurseries are also very expensive you’re right!

There are a number of reasons I choose not to use a childminder.
I need more reliability than some childminders can provide- if they’re unwell and close their setting, that’s inconvenient. If they choose to take their holidays not in line with term times, that’s also a problem as I work in a school. I also prefer the safeguarding aspect that can come from having multiple professionals working together- not a fail safe, of course, but my concern would be who is there to whistleblow on a lone worker? I also know children form relationships with preferred adults- if they don’t particularly like their childminder, that’s tough because they’re the only caregiver. At a nursery setting, there are multiple key people, so children can form attachments to the preferred adults. Mixed age group provision have pros and cons, I prefer the idea of the 2yos being together rather than a mix of tiny babies up to preschoolers. Due to extra staffing, my nursery could also do more to support my fussy….

Both my boys go to a childminder and they both love her, we visited nurserys and I just wasnt a fan.

Only downside to our childminder she doesnt work in school holidays so think thats why most people choose nurserys but I like the 1 to 1 suppport/time she give my boys

As someone who has worked in nurseries I personally would rather send my child to a childminder however there are none locally to me. I’ve experienced colleagues who just don’t like children and work in a nursery as they have no qualifications and seems like an easy job. My child was constantly poorly at nursery and was also severely bullied and nothing done about it by staff. The only negative I see with minders is that kids are less prepared for school as they’ve been around less children

I never considered a childminder because of the safe guarding aspect like whos there watching them kind of thing when they are the only adult, if anything was to happen it would be down to the child to tell me if there speaking, if not I wouldnt know and that didnt feel right for me, also if they were off sick ect id have no back up (solo mum)
My son has been in 3 nursery's as ive moved house and they've always grouped the kids together by age, my son is currently at a school nursery and it is cheaper than the private nursery he was at, my son also has just been reffered for an autism assessment, and the school nursery picked up on it straight away and have allsorts in place to help him where as his other nursery's didnt, he is absolutely thriving now, so for me id suggest school nursery's all day long. But I just think its all down to preference at the end of the day