15 hours nursery eligibility

Do I need to reapply in September for the 26/27 academic year? Or does it just roll on?

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Annoyed with work

I returned to work mid June and recently had a month review with my manager and HR. It was a positive meeting and no issues. But I’ve now read my letter following this and I’m really frustrated by a comment that’s been made. The day after this I was 5mins late in and admittedly I tend to be most days. But this is no fault of my own. I’m waking up at 5am to ensure I’m ready and sorted before the rest of the house, leaving at the right time to get my baby to nursery then onto work. Traffic is awful on the way no matter what time in the morning and I then have to park my car 15min walk from work. Anyone with a baby knows just how difficult getting out the door is even with bags packed the night before! Our nursery only has a few parking spaces so sometimes I have to wait for someone to leave. My baby still finds drop offs hard. I’m trying my absolute best to juggle all of this and be fully committed to my job, it’s absolutely exhausting. I’ve explained to work all of this (before the late comment was made) and I feel like I’m being shown no understanding. I’d get ticking off someone for being late if they haven’t got a valid reason but I have a baby! Honestly makes me question why am I doing this and why are parents treated so differently to any other employee

pls give advice

I’m 3 month’s postpartum and I feel like I’m losing my mind. My boyfriend and I broke up almost 2 months ago now because he was hanging out with other girls behind my back. I’m living with my mom and I am getting help here and there from her but I just feel so overwhelmed all the time no matter what I do. My baby won’t take my breast and only drinks out of bottles so if I’m constantly washing and pumping over and over again all day. I’m going back to school in two weeks. My babys dad hardly comes around to see her and I’m trying my best to coparent with him, but even talking to him makes me so angry. I just don’t know what to do anymore.

Hating life

I am literally hating life, our 14wk old is such a miserable baby its unreal.

Im sure he has silent reflux now, but am just counting down the days in the hope things get easier or counting down time so we can start moving onto solids.

Hes so miserable every day, all our family sees it too so its not just my imagination. The only time hes content is when hes sleeping or if im lucky the occasional 1p/20mins at some point throughout the day but it is so minimal when hes awake its unreal

Im so fed up, we also have a toddler and it dread days off with them both as its such a nightmare

I just hate life atm its shit

Clingy toddlers

Not asking for advice. I have 3 kids 2 boys 1 girl. My daughter is stuck to me like gorilla glue. My boys were never this clingy, I love her to death she my little queen but god forbid I go to the bathroom or walk 5 feet from her it’s the end of the world . Anyone else feeling this too?

Question for this coming school year...

Ok so... my son is 5 (Sept 10th birthday) he was in kindergarten last year and now we are considering holding him back... but hes excelled so much that we are thinking of putting him through to 1st grade. His speech therapist doesn't know why I want to hold him back, but I just dont want him to fail. . . This padt year was super rough with me having his baby brother 2/20/25 and the brain surgeries 2 moths after i had the baby... homework wasnt done... speech wasnt done... kumon wasnt done... im not blaming. I understand that shit was happening... but at the same time he deteriorated from where we were and it took almost the rest of the year to catch up somewhat...

Do I hold him back? Or do I put him in 1st grade?

Would you be hurt by this reaction?

My dad passed at the beginning of the month and all our conversations have been absorbed by the situation and sorting out all the legal stuff and supporting my mum. All in all my husband has probably taken just over a week off including the funeral! The funeral was yesterday and I was hoping that I would at least get a day or 2 with family before traveling home but we drove home the same day (6 hours journey) so my husband can get back for work in the morning. I haven’t had any time to process anything and it all just feels overwhelming especially with a toddler whiles being 7 months pregnant. Some nights our toddler sleeps with us and we just thought it would be easier to do that tonight. Me & my toddler was having a funny conversation whiles my husband was scrolling on his phone and I said to him join our conversation, this is really funny. He snapped and he said he was tired and turning the light off! I said I just want to spent a bit of time together before bed. And he said “ what do you think I just spent this whole month doing?”… I was completely shocked and hurt because every conversation this month has been about dealing with all the legal stuff and all that and it sort of feel like I’m asking for too much by asking for us to just have a quick funny conversation with our toddler. Mind you the few days we spent getting stuff ready for the funeral with my family, he was texting and emailing about work stuff to the point I had to tell him to stop doing work stuff during those few days. I’ve never seem him question why people at work are still texting him at 11pm when his tired even though his been with these people all day but yet if dare to have a conversation at 11pm, he gets annoyed at me.