yeah, but "a few hours a week" should be a couple of hundred quid a month even in London.
not a thousand, surely?

Also, she's not "entiteled" to anything. You can afford for her to have a few hours break. There's a chasm of difference.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 11:31, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

6 hours a week @ £15 ph = £360 a month.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 11:32, Reply)

Fucking hell.
I'll be paying less than £500 a month to put minibadger into one of the best private nurseries in Edinburgh for 3 days a week.

I take it that's a childminder? why not use a nursery?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 11:34, Reply)

She's 19 months. The decent nurseries around here won't take kids under 2.
She's starting at one in September; £2.5k a term.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 11:35, Reply)

Sorry, what the actual fuck?
Nurseries start from about 4 months old in normal civilised society.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 11:36, Reply)

psst
London
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 11:37, Reply)

I have plenty of friends with kids in London
if anything, London nurseries take kids earlier, what with it being a fuck sight harder to survive on one salary in london.

a place that won't take kids til they are 2 isn't a nursery, it's a preschool.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 11:39, Reply)

Montessori doesn't. Well, the ones around us don't.
Plus I wouldn't want micro in nursery too young. She does lots of other activities though; song classes, swimming lessons etc. Starting Spanish classes soon.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 11:38, Reply)

Right..... Montessori are schools though.
I totally appreciate that your child's upbringing is a personal choice, personally I just don't understand why you don't want her mixing with other children too young but paying more money to spend time with a strange adult is OK.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 11:43, Reply)

sorry, just to be clear
going totally against the tradition of b3ta here, I'm not saying I think you're wrong. I'm not sure there is a "wrong" about this. Just my thoughts.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 11:48, Reply)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHAAAA

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 11:37, Reply)

it's up to every couple how they choose to split work/life etc
but personally there is no way i could take cash from my husband without doing something, even a few hours a week.

"happy birthday darling, here's a shirt. you paid for it, but..."
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 11:35, Reply)