tess1981
13-04-2014, 11:42 AM
Have been minding a 2 yo and a 5 yo for 5 weeks while their granny who normally minds them was away on holiday. Friday was my last full week with them and a well ago asked if I could keep them on 2 days a week to allow granny to have free time. I agreed to this as a little extra money and the 2 yo can be very difficult and draining and the hours are longer than I really want to work anyway but I thought 2 days of. Told mum it would have to fit in with my other part timers so I could have a day free a week and she agreed. Anyway she came to pick up on Friday and hit me with a bomb shell.... did I want them 5 days a weeks. She said they love it at mine and granny can concentrate on another area of interest.
So I replied... oh sorry I was really not expecting that can I think about it and contact you over the weekend as I had another enquiry
That saved me from agreeing to something and then regret it later. I did text her to say if I did it I would need granny to have the children 1 or 2 days a week during July and August as I had tto children . looking in and had planned to me of in summer. If I said yes on Friday I would have been to late to request this.
Moral of the story if a parent asks a question tell them let me have a wee think to see if it can be accommodated gives you tone to decide. Left mother to think about over weekend
So I replied... oh sorry I was really not expecting that can I think about it and contact you over the weekend as I had another enquiry
That saved me from agreeing to something and then regret it later. I did text her to say if I did it I would need granny to have the children 1 or 2 days a week during July and August as I had tto children . looking in and had planned to me of in summer. If I said yes on Friday I would have been to late to request this.
Moral of the story if a parent asks a question tell them let me have a wee think to see if it can be accommodated gives you tone to decide. Left mother to think about over weekend