i feel quite strongly about this i think childminders are loosing their identity with everything we have to do, i am just a little fed up today after having a visit from my child development officer and saying my learning journals are not quite good enough need to elaborate on them a bit more, more bits of work that i need to do, i should risk assess my house everyday and tick it off, said i should be sharing information with the school dont know how i am susposed to do that because as soon as i pick them up from school they all come running up to me so my only interest is to stop them running off and getting into danger let alone speak to any teachers should this not be the job of the parents after all i only have them for two hours a day, she said i need to move away from plastic as ofsted dont like it she said i could do things like cover my table with cling film and just let them have some paint and do some mark making ok this is fine but it is still my home and i really dont want paint everywhere. Also need to get some construction things in my garden like bits of wood for them to build ok this is fine but it is at the end of the day it is a garden and do like it to look a bit like a garden. All this is fine but what happned to being a childminder and a home from home enviroment i had one parent visit said she wanted a child minder as she prefered it because it was home from home and nursery were to structured and did not want that, another parent is happy as long as their children are happy, all my parents are happy with what i do i love my job but all this paper work just gets me down i work very long hours sometimes 12 hour days with no break i am not a nursery where i get a lunch hour, or have a cleaner, or a cook, or paid holidays i am a childminder what it says in the title so why cant we be childminders.
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