HOW DO YOU MAKE TIME FOR FORUM ??

Pipsqueak · 08-02-2010, 04:51 PM

I don't make time for the forum - I make everything else fit in around the forum

Mondays and Tuesday are my 'days off' - ie not minding,
Wed-Fri - children leave at 1.30 so I can come on then or when they are napping

if I am up early enough in the mornings I pop on
this is the last place I check at night

FORUM ADDICT

**WibbleWobble** · 08-02-2010, 05:33 PM

OH came home the other day to no tea...toys everywhere (LO had been gone 2 hours) and me sat here typing like a mad woman.

oops....its 5.30...i should get the tea on .....oh....whats that post? it looks interesting....

mandy x

**newandlearning** · 08-02-2010, 06:10 PM

I find it addictive too.. and very dangerous when anyone advertises a bargain

.. I'm trying to not come on before school as I really have loads to do then.. pop on quick during lunch/quiet time and then once everyone has gone like now...
got totally side tracked on sat. looking at activity ideas and lost 3 hours..

.. got loads of ideas.. got overwhelmed and still didn't plan anything

.. gonna catch up tonight.x

**Monkey1** · 08-02-2010, 06:26 PM

You mean i should be doing other things????

**miffy** · 08-02-2010, 06:29 PM

Originally Posted by Monkey1

You mean i should be doing other things????

I don't know what you're talking about I'm hardly ever here

Miffy xx

**ORKSIE** · 08-02-2010, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by miffy

I don't know what you're talking about I'm hardly ever here

Miffy xx

Me neither

**breezy** · 08-02-2010, 09:19 PM

I'm giving up childminding to spend more time here, but for now the kids really do enjoy playing in the locked cupboard.............................honest they love it! None of them are scared of the dark anymore, they're so used to it

**helenlc** · 08-02-2010, 09:41 PM

I come on here as I sit down to have my breakfast.

In the afternoon when LOs are sleeping and for a time in the evening.

Starting to annoy myself when I am out and talking to people face to face and I go "On the forum the other day ............"

**MrsT333** · 08-02-2010, 10:03 PM

first thing in the morning!
Then in the evening....i tell hubby its part of my work

**francinejayne** · 08-02-2010, 10:18 PM

I think this forum's great. I have learnt soooooooooooo much on here. And yes it is addictive!
It does have it's down sides though. I'm 3 weeks into my 8 week ICP course, and so far I've learnt nothing, as I'd already learnt it here!!!!

Pipsqueak · 08-02-2010, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by helenlc

"On the forum the other day ............"

I say that

Lady Haha · 08-02-2010, 11:10 PM

Originally Posted by helenlc

On the forum the other day ..........

Me too

only for some reason I can't just say 'on the forum the other day', I have to say every single time "on the childminding forum I'm a member of.......'

My friends must get so fed up and be thinking 'why can't she just say 'on the forum the other day' ?

**Cazz** · 08-02-2010, 11:57 PM

This forum is the reason why I only get a few hours sleep each night!!

I don't often get a chance to come on during the day and it's normally after 9pm before I get the time (or more likely my hands on the laptop

) to come on.

I then try to catch up with everything from the last 24 hours (with an occasional visit to Facebook!) and then I realise I haven't finished tidying up/doing the kids packed lunches/cleaning the kitchen/doing paperwork etc etc.

This is the case right now but I can't get motivated to turn the laptop off and get my backside out of this chair

I really should have gone to bed a couple of hours ago as I'm full of cold now and feel a bit grotty

**MarpleJollytots** · 09-02-2010, 05:24 PM

I think i will limit Tracie to 1 Hour per day!
But she may do the same to me?
On second thoughts i will leave it!

Mike

**Playmate** · 09-02-2010, 05:36 PM

Its taken me a year to get to 400 posts, I used to spend alot more time on here but I just don't have time now. Hubby and I work 60hr week and never get sleep times, just sometimes it goes quiet like today

Also trying to get NVQ finished, so maybe when thats done I'll have more time

So I symperthise with you, wish I had more time

**MarpleJollytots** · 09-02-2010, 05:41 PM

To be honest myself and Tracie spend most of our time reading Post's rather than posting ourselves. There is so much information to hand and its a huge help for us.

Mike

**ajs** · 09-02-2010, 05:42 PM

my laptop is permantently on the kitchen table so i log on when i get up then i shower and as it's on the table with me and the mindees i can have a quick look while they eat and if they are playing happily i will sometimes just come and have a check on new posts.

and of course when they sleep and when they go home ( like now) sometimes i spend all evening checking the fourm and fb and don't realise what the time is

**PixiePetal** · 09-02-2010, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by helenlc

I come on here as I sit down to have my breakfast.

In the afternoon when LOs are sleeping and for a time in the evening.

Starting to annoy myself when I am out and talking to people face to face and I go "On the forum the other day ............"

Me too!!

I went to our local group meeting last night and more than once found myself saying it

**janminder** · 09-02-2010, 06:03 PM

I do find this forum very addictive once I am on but its getting on thats the problem

Computer is in my bedroom in a foldaway cupboard so 3 days it has a travel cot in front of it and unless I have the energy to put it away and then get it out again I can't get to it. My husband is on permanent early shifts so he goes to bed at around 9 Sunday to Friday so by the time I wait till he's in a deep sleep so the lamp and tapping dont disturb him I'm getting tired myself.

I did once try sitting with a blanket over me with stuff weighing it down on the top of the cupboard to block the light from the lamp but I moved and it all came crashing down on me

so I gave that one up.