(Other than take time off work to look after them)
2007-01-13 13:20:17 · 16 answers · asked by John 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
Check out your local council's childcare webpages. These should list any out of school holiday clubs that your child could attend. Also check out the dti (department of trade and industry) website with regard to your rights to take parental leave. In the main this leave is unpaid - but you do have rights to take this - the website is very detailed. Also you could address your working hours to work more flexibly. This has never been an option for me, sadly. I have always had to use holiday clubs. But my little one adores the clubs that she attends and when I do take annual leave - it's great quality time that we get together. Good luck.
2007-01-14 23:41:35 · answer #1 · answered by personwithgreeneyes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that some people are being a bit harsh. We don't know anything about their financial situation; for them the alternative to both parents working might be their family not being able to afford to eat. We just don't know, so can't really judge.
To answer your question, here in Australia daycare centres offer vacation care programs during the holidays, is there something similar there? And for future holidays, are you or your partner in the kind of job where setting up a creche would be possible (at least during school holidays)? Or is there already a creche that may offer care for school-aged children? If enough employees with children are interested it might be the go. Then you could see your kids during your lunch break.
Good luck.
2007-01-13 14:03:03 · answer #2 · answered by Kristy M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Contact your local education board, school, health visitor or midwife. There are many holiday clubs, set up for working parents. Failing that you could ask friends or family to help out. If there is nobody who can help out try organising shifts at work so you take your holidays alternatively to cover as much of the holiday as possible. Plan well ahead. I hope you find the help you need. All the best.
2007-01-13 13:30:44 · answer #3 · answered by loopyannielou 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meet other parents of children in their class and see if any of them are stay at home parents that might be interested in a few extra dollars. Or get a group of parents together and rotate taking off time for school holidays.
2007-01-13 13:26:11 · answer #4 · answered by wada670 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
if your kids do any sports (like gymnastics, or dance, etc) they might have some kind of short term "full day camp" where they could spend the week off school while you are at work. Also, if there is a day care that proves after school care to school age kids, they might have these camps as well where you could enroll your kids for the full day.
2007-01-13 14:14:17 · answer #5 · answered by lasm97 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call your local daycare centers and ask if they accept school age children for holidays. I know where my son goes, parents pay a little more for that but they do take them.
2007-01-13 13:26:00 · answer #6 · answered by jule9104 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe a friend or relative could watch them for you you can offer them a little bit of money too. Or you can post an add in the paper for a babysitter someone responsible and reliable and you and your wife could interview some people for the job or maybe someone in your neighborhood could watch them i am sure you can find someone you know and trust to watch your kids good luck but don't trust just anyone to watch your kids you never know what can happen good luck
2007-01-13 13:29:39 · answer #7 · answered by Heather 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hire a high school girl to come in and watch them, they usually have the same holidays.... also a before and after school program usually runs full days during holidays
2007-01-13 13:25:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tie them down in the morning when you leave and release them when you get home!
If you can't be bothered to make time for your own kids why did you have them?
As a child, both my parents worked and I resent them for it because I was stuck with childminders all the time.
My kids mean more to me than a Job. If my kids need me I'm there, I am the 'breadwinner in the family but if I need time off for them I make sure I get it.
Your kids need at leat one parent around if only for the fact that you are THERE!!
2007-01-13 13:43:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Get a childminder, or hire a nanny, have a live-in au-pair, beg favours from grandparents and/or other relatives, or friends. Other than that, either one person retrains as a teacher, or stops working altogether, or both work part-time or flexible hours, or from home, so that there's always someone there to cover.
2007-01-13 13:26:37 · answer #10 · answered by dorothy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋