Following for Teacakes post about we childminders being called something else after the Peacock woman in corrie being called a a childminder in the papers, (sorry about the appalling grammar)


i wonder...what would YOU like us to be called



Professional dogsbody is my first thought!


but seriously....


mandy xx

I quite like Professinal Dogsbody - whats wrong with that - think its quite apt!

My first thought was Skivvy:rolleyes:

I call myself a Professional Childcarer

I just say Registered Childminder but i'm open to suggestions of something more fancy.

I always say Registered because it stops people calling me a babysitter.

I provide personalised home from home childcare, so I suppose I could be a home childcarer?

That's what I say when people ask and when I fill in paperwork. I'm a home based childcarer!!

I call myself a Professional Childcarer

Me too

xxxx

Childminders, if we weren't called Childminders then parents wouldn't know what we actually are. :idea:

Childminders, if we weren't called Childminders then parents wouldn't know what we actually are. :idea:

:laughing: :laughing:

xx

Was speaking to a salesperson on the phone today and he asked what my occupation was and I said at first "Self-employed" and then he asked "Doing what?" and I said "I'm a CM" and he said "Great, so you own your own nursery then?" :rolleyes:

MUG - springs to mind!!!!

And I don't just mean as far as the parents are concerned!!!

the one thing i can`t stand being called is the babysitter:angry:

We were asked this by the EY team last week. They have put in a new 'system' of three tiered childminders with network minders at the top, every one else in the middle and newly registered minders at the bottom for a year after they register.

They want a 'name' for the minders in the middle.... no-one had any ideas haha....

Jenni