I realise it's a long way off but something has recently come up from Mum of my Year 5 (10 year old) mindee. I've had him before school since he was in reception. He would come afterschool but I cover another school in the next village, so he is in afterschool club. I occasionally have him in the holidays. He is a lovely lad, still "plays" although sometime he can get stroppy with DD as she is just 8, bright and mature so they are on a par with each other which irks him somewhat as he is oldest!
Mum has always joked that he will be coming to me until he leaves home, especially as he was one of my first mindees and seen the others all come and go. But we were talking last week at the end of a babysitting session and she said that she was intending to still send him once at secondary school both before and after school.
Does anybody have secondary age children and how does it go?
I had thought that between afterschool activities and hanging out with friends he wouldn't need much "Care" as Mum is usually home by 5/5:30pm. He does have anxiety issues which he is overcoming, so I had thought before this conversation that if he was feeling a bit anxious and didn't want to go home to an empty house that he has my number and can then call me if he wants to come back to mine. I would have thought though an year 7 child would not want to be going to a childminder. Me and him are already trying to think of a more appropriate term for when I "Baby"sit him!
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