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My daughters nursery is all year including half terms
It's our first year doing it but we're planning to use a combination of grandparents, annual leave and holiday clubs. At a push we'll also have to do a couple of days with him at home but luckily we both wfh so can juggle. Any you get than he is now and that would've been impossible.
Combine annual leave and holiday clubs and occasionally grandparents. We had the fun my son is autistic so a lot of holiday clubs refused to take him. The other thing I would do was work three long days instead of four short ones. My oh also had Mondays off as worked in retail.
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It’s a bit of a nightmare really, and is the reason I only work 2 days per week as I just can’t cover the school holidays. My Mum is amazing and does one of the days which just leaves us one, so either me or my husband use a holiday day or she goes to my Grandparents which I don’t love doing as they are 90 years old 😬
We have no help with the children as no grandparents can help. Mine are in Finland and my partner's mum is disabled. We both work from home so we do holiday clubs on some days and then some days she is at home. But my youngest starts school in September and I don't know how that will work. Not sure we will be able to work when she is at home. 🙈
Mine just started at a new nursery that’s like in between full time & term time only. This week he has short days, 8:30-4:30. Luckily I’m on mat leave with baby #2 so can get him early, but I’ll need to talk to my work about flexible hours for these weeks moving forward. The times he’s completely off (like the whole month of August) I’ve secured a spot with a childminder
I'm on mat leave until Sep so it's not an issue yet, but next year we'll do a mixture of grandparents and holiday. Our biggest problem will be Mondays as my parents will be having my youngest and my brother's baby on Mondays but during holidays they can't have the older ones too as that's potentially 6 kids. So between us all we'll book some days off, ask the other grandparents and anyone else available to help. It's tough, though
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