mummyemma
06-09-2015, 08:15 PM
Hello all,
I'm hoping that one of you Who knows way more than me can give me your opinion and advise please. I am newly registered and had my fist contact the other day from someone looking for a minder. I have to say it took me by surprise but assume they got my details from the council web site, the lady was looking for someone to do pick up from school 3.20-5. I asked her what days she was looking for and she said the full five, I explained I could not do the full five. We then ended up speaking on the phone and she told me it would be ok for me to just do the two I can do. All sounds ok as I type, however the conversation was her telling me I could have her child and that I could start next Tuesday !!. I said no that wouldn't be possible as I wasn't quite ready and would need to give a months notice anyway. She said that's fine start in October !!! Honestly I did not like the conversation one bit, I said surely you'd like to meet me and check out the house ? so she invited her self for that evening, I said no and that I would be in contact. I'm not keen at all to take the child on based on how the mother was on the phone, I get that she may be struggling to find someone but to tell them yes that's fine you have my child and start Tuesday is a bit much surely ? To add she was foreign may explain her abruptness but...... ! I have been wracking my brains since and am in the trap of feeling like I should for some reason be obliging. How do I turn this woman down ? I am actually going through a situation with the father of my own children whereby the school pick ups for them may change and that would mean I couldn't collect the minded child soooo could I say sorry I've thought about it and that's my reason ? is that fair enough or not ?
Thoughts appreciated
Emma
I'm hoping that one of you Who knows way more than me can give me your opinion and advise please. I am newly registered and had my fist contact the other day from someone looking for a minder. I have to say it took me by surprise but assume they got my details from the council web site, the lady was looking for someone to do pick up from school 3.20-5. I asked her what days she was looking for and she said the full five, I explained I could not do the full five. We then ended up speaking on the phone and she told me it would be ok for me to just do the two I can do. All sounds ok as I type, however the conversation was her telling me I could have her child and that I could start next Tuesday !!. I said no that wouldn't be possible as I wasn't quite ready and would need to give a months notice anyway. She said that's fine start in October !!! Honestly I did not like the conversation one bit, I said surely you'd like to meet me and check out the house ? so she invited her self for that evening, I said no and that I would be in contact. I'm not keen at all to take the child on based on how the mother was on the phone, I get that she may be struggling to find someone but to tell them yes that's fine you have my child and start Tuesday is a bit much surely ? To add she was foreign may explain her abruptness but...... ! I have been wracking my brains since and am in the trap of feeling like I should for some reason be obliging. How do I turn this woman down ? I am actually going through a situation with the father of my own children whereby the school pick ups for them may change and that would mean I couldn't collect the minded child soooo could I say sorry I've thought about it and that's my reason ? is that fair enough or not ?
Thoughts appreciated
Emma