at what time do u... [Archive] - Childminding Forum

Rubybubbles

28-01-2008, 08:20 PM

I get up at 7am
Get showered, dressed wake kids
rush around making breakfast/getting kids dressed/making packed lunches
8am mindies arrive, then do everyone a round of toast and make myself a cuppa:laughing:

saying that, one mindie often sends a text (as in mum!!) running late:rolleyes: and arrive about 8:30am fine by me, I've told her if not here by 8:45am I'm gone on school run;)

Banana

28-01-2008, 08:21 PM

lol...

Mondays and tuesdays I start at 8.30 - I get up at 8.00am. :D

Wed, thurs and fri I start at 7.30, tend to get up at 6.45 as I need a bit longer to get my bearings!!

Richard gets up early so Belle always gets up with him!

xx

Pauline

28-01-2008, 08:22 PM

Wake up 6.20 am, cuppa in bed, wash, dress etc.

first mindees 7.30 am :eek:

Lou

28-01-2008, 08:23 PM

We all get up at 7, my children go down for brekkie with hubby and i have shower etc.

Occasional mindee arrives at 7.30, if she isnt coming then the others arrive at 8, i dont do breakfast for mindees.

Sometimes they are late and i do the same, tell them if they are not here by 8.30, i will leaving for school run without them.

sarah707

28-01-2008, 08:30 PM

Up at 7, shower etc and get my own children up... first mindee arrives at 740am... I won't start earlier! :D

fionamal

28-01-2008, 08:34 PM

Get up at 7ish and have shower, dressed and get kids breakfast and then get them dresses. First mindee is supposed to arrive at 8am but lately its been 9ish as mum has been made redundant so only have her a couple of mornings now.

Earliest Id start is 7.30am

Rubybubbles

28-01-2008, 08:35 PM

tomthumb

28-01-2008, 08:41 PM

Was wondering about that as well. I have just had my first enquiry and mum is coming to visit next tuesday. This is really exciting!!!:clapping:
She wants a 7am start which I don't mind but my girls aren't up at this time. Does it really matter if my own children get ready as I have already started minding?? The eldest wakes up at 7:30 (well I wake her up) and the little one can stay in bed until midday if I let her. :laughing:

John

28-01-2008, 08:42 PM

I get up at 7.00am ready for my first mindee comes at 8.30am school at 9.00am and have a brake until 12.00pm until 9.30pm.

John.

sarah707

28-01-2008, 08:45 PM

Does it really matter if my own children get ready as I have already started minding?? The eldest wakes up at 7:30 (well I wake her up) and the little one can stay in bed until midday if I let her. :laughing:

Your house, your rules. You will just need to do a risk assessment showing how you intend to keep the mindee safe downstairs while you are upstairs getting your own children up. Keep in mind that mindees must be within your sight or hearing at all times :D

brit_chick

28-01-2008, 08:47 PM

i get up at 6 & my first one comes at 7

Banana

28-01-2008, 08:48 PM

Isabelle isnt always up when im up at 6.45, sometimes she will lie in, other times she is up with richard, but Im not about to get her up, washed, dressed for 7.30 in the morning if she woul drather be sleeping!

x

miffy

28-01-2008, 09:24 PM

Up at 6.30 so I can take my time

No little ones of my own now but still have to get hubby up and off to work LOL

First mindees arrive at 8am exactly - you can set your watch by them

Miffy xx

manjay

28-01-2008, 09:31 PM

No little ones of my own now but still have to get hubby up and off to work LOL

Miffy xx

If he's anything like mine he is harder to get ready than the children!

I am up about 6:30, shower, dry my hair, put some slap on, check the forum, wake dd's and get them off to school for 8 which is when ds usually wakes up. Then potter until mindees require a pick up from school at 3;15

amanda xx

chubbymummy

28-01-2008, 09:33 PM

i'm up at 7am ready for 8am start

my kids get up about then too

in hols i will let mine lie in until they are ready to get up, i've brought them up to be independent so they get themselves ready even my 5 year old washes and gets her own clothes out and dressed!!!

charleyfarley

28-01-2008, 09:44 PM

I'm up between 6.15-6.30 to have bath and wash hair (piece and quiet)

Dry hair, make up on ready to face the world at 7.30.

Charley normally gets up 7.15, she gets herself washed and dressed.

Mitchell can get up anytime from when I get up to 8am

He comes downstairs himself although he can't dress himself yet

Carol xxx

ruby

28-01-2008, 09:49 PM

manjay

28-01-2008, 09:51 PM

i get up at 7.00pm quick shower and dressed first mindee comes at 7.30

by 8.00 i usually have 4 then rachel comes down and the rest arrive by 8.30
we have 3 for breakfast
rachel leaves to do the school run at 8.45 `

cathy and rachel

So do you get to stay snuggled up in the warm while poor Rachel has to go out to school?

amanda xx

sassy

28-01-2008, 09:55 PM

hey

i am up at 6am

first mindee at 6.40am

then off to collect another mindee at 6.45 for 7am start

my two girlies are still in bed, but are up by 7.15 when i get back

getting up early is ok and it gets me going, as i am finished by 5pm

ready for tea with hubby & my girls x which is priceless

sassy

emmadines

28-01-2008, 10:07 PM

so those of you who actually go out and get your mindees??? do you do this out of chioce???

ruby

28-01-2008, 10:18 PM

hi amanda

yes I do but I am the one getting up early so i think its only fair she does the school run

but saying that i do take the children to nursery in the afternoon

cathy

Pipsqueak

28-01-2008, 10:48 PM

I'm exhausted just reading this.... time for a lie down I think:yawning:

I get up at 7ish, have a cup of tea in peace, watch the news then I get the kids up about 7.40ish. Get them sorted, middle child is NOT a morning person at all and takes a while to come round.

Mindees arrive (depending on the week) between 8.15 and if dads dropping them more often than not at 8.50am just as I am walking out the door to go to school. Dad doesn't do getting going in the morning and neither does youngest mindee!!!

ajs

28-01-2008, 11:27 PM

my hubby leaves home at 7;15 so he wakes me with a kiss and goes and gets his breakfast at about 6;55

mon and tues i get up when hubby goes and shower make up hair and dress my girls are sorting them selves and have gone usually by the time i get down stairs go on the forum put a wash on make sure playroom is ready make a cup of tea then mindee arrives at 8:30 - 8:45

wed thurs and frii get up shout at sam as he has to be at college
shower shout again to sam to get him up
dress shout some more for sam
make up and hair shout at sam that he's now missed his bus and mindee comes at 8

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

29-01-2008, 08:21 AM

I normally get up at around 6.50 shower, hair etc depending what day it is first mindee arrives at 7.30 and then normally shout my dd at 7.45 so she can get up and be ready next one arrives at 8.00 and then the last one at 8.45.

I used to get my dd up at 7.00 so she could be ready, but decided that wasn't fair on her anymore as she is old enough to get herself ready in the morning.

If I have a 7.30 start I work until 5.00 if not then it is 3.00 which I really like.

Lorraine xx

oakie dokie

29-01-2008, 09:20 AM

im up at 6 or befor, catch up on forum, shower at 7 and wake the kids,

hazelx

susi513

29-01-2008, 09:50 AM

DD (13) and DS (10) now get themselves up and do their own breakfasts, dd does her own packed lunch too. They both get themselves to school too. So I've gotten a little lazy, first mindees are at 8 (but tend to arrive about ten past) so I get up around 7:15 am.

I have started as early as 6:30 for shift workers but it was only once or twice a week. Would get up at 6 am, wash & dress and then feed baby by which time my lot usually coming in for brekkie. Sometimes I'd take the baby up with me to kick ds out of bed as we went through a time when he didn't get up well. (just like his dad lol).

Not much call for before school care here. A lot of kids play in the playground a good half hour or more before school, much to the schools annoyance. They keep reminding parents there is no supervision/insurance etc and that children shouldn't arrive before 8:45 but nobody takes any notice.

peggy

29-01-2008, 02:36 PM

on a thurs and fri i'm up for bout 6.45am, first mindee comes at 7.50, other days i get a "lie" in as the other mindee comes at 8.10! I dont provide breakfast after 8am, its good to know that others dont either, i thought i was being a meanie!!!!

Cammie Doodle

29-01-2008, 02:46 PM

Tues and Thurs up at 6.30 Hubby brings me a cup of tea on the mornings that he is on duty . 1st mindee arrives about 7.20 Rest of the days start just after 8am ;)

Fee

30-01-2008, 03:50 PM

Up at 7.45am mindees come at 8.15, 8.30. My kids 6 and 7yrs get up any time between 6am and 8am usually early. Used to get up at 6am as had a mindee at 6.30am but they moved away.

The other mindee comes at 11.30am.

Fee:)

Tily Bud

30-01-2008, 04:03 PM

ive a parent who works shifts so some days i start at 6.45 and others its 7.45 :eek: then sometimes i dont finish til 9pm :eek:

no wonder im k*******d !

merry

01-02-2008, 11:52 AM

I get up at 7 and first mindie arrives at 7.15, 7.10 if traffic is light so it's straight out of bed and into my clothes! My own children are grown up and at university so only home in the holidays, when they regularly complain about the doorbell going early :laughing: My dh works away during the week, so usually there's only me in the house in the morning, nice and peaceful.

:)

LittleMissSparkles

01-02-2008, 11:58 AM

typical morning here is hubby getting in shower 6.30 ish if on duty and me getting up and getting myself dressed etc ( dont have time for shower in a morning, hubby stakes too long doing the 3 S's ) then I get Luca up and he see's to himself and then I get Amy up and get her bathed and dressed and hair washed etc, come downstairs and get kids breakfasts ready ( hubby gone by now ) and then the doorbell goes at 7.45 when first mindees arrive xxxx

deeb66

01-02-2008, 04:52 PM

I am quite lucky at the moment as my earliest mindee arrives at 8 am so i don't get up until 7ish because I have to get my son up and out for school.

When one of the mums goes back to work (out on maternity leave) then she will be dropping off at 7.15 so will have to be up around 6ish.