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    We just finnished making some cola cupcakes when 4 year old mindee pipes up " adele why don't you go to work like mummy " lol tried to explain but she wasent having any of it and replyed " u don't go to work u just play "

    Our cola cupcakes
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    Like the look of them. They also look like spiders to me.

    Well we do play. I personally try to play all day if it wasn't for paper work I would. I have even had school children not quite understand that I get paid to look. after them.

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    i teach all my mindees from the word go that i do work, and my work is playing with them, so that their mummies & daddies can go to work!!!

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    I just tell them I have the best job in the world :-)
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    It's a tricky one, especially when parents have explained that they go to work to pay bills and then they ask what work I do and I tel them that playing with them is my job. I worry that they might think 'why can't my mummy play with me for her job?'

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    I remember when I was a live in nanny, many years ago now. The little boy asked me "What are those things mummy gives you called wages" Lol

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    Aww bless. Those cakes look fab.

 

 

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