Our babysitter fell asleep when she was minding our child- was she in the wrong?
“Am I overreacting?” A mum has called out her babysitter after she fell asleep on the job. She explained that she was on a rare date night with her husband when the incident happened. The woman and her husband checked the monitors in their house and they noticed she was lying on the sofa with […]
2 years ago
Heading back to work? How to ease separation anxiety
Many babies and toddlers experience separation anxiety throughout the first two years of their lives. Many mums or dads will have been their baby’s almost constant companion for at least the first few months after their birth and it is understandable that infants and young children are a little upset when the time comes for […]
10 years ago
‘Black market’ operators undercutting registered child-minders
Professional child minders are finding it “virtually impossible” to compete with unregistered operators who are offering to look after children for less than €10 a day. That’s according to Bernadette Orbinski Burke, chief executive of Child-minding Ireland, who told the Irish Independent that “informal arrangements” mean qualified, registered minders are losing out to the “black market”. […]
11 years ago