In Tallaght this time with the little lad.
He fell in crèche earlier and landed on a sharp shape piece.
Wouldnât you know it but the cut is right in the crease in the corner of his eye. Waiting for the doctor to come back with a plan of action. Iâm predicting a full eye bandage with a trip to the Eye and Ear for checking the eye itself.
Bad luck, very best to little farmer.
Misfortune. Hopefully not as bad as it looks
The poor unfortunate. Unfortunate but hopefully nothing major.
I did a fair stint in the Eye and Ear as a chap. Me poor mam was tormented as I was tormented. She had some patience. Mind that young lad. Hopefully be a good outcome.
Update.
No full eye bandage just a cream to prevent infection.
Eye and Ear tomorrow morning. Consultant in Tallaght happy the eye is ok but wants to make sure.
I have to say excellent service in Tallaght. They arranged the appointment in the Eye and Ear and gave the little lad the best of care.
Ouch. Poor maneen. Be better before heâs twice married PG
Yeah, eyes and ears will be the least of his problems
Tallaght is the best kept secret in Dublin. We head there any time ahead of Temple St or Crumlin, thankfully on a rare occasion.
So all good.
The wound is a scratch in the doctorâs opinion which will heal itself with an ointment. Nothing to worry about,
Thanks for the good wishes.
How you managed to wrangle 60 likes, a weekâs work out of a squad of doctors and nurses, half a tank of diesel and two hospital visits, and a tibe of placeboâŚout of a scratch
Its probably too late for you, but that cub needs to man up.
Poor baby - here is a like for you.
They all count
Is there any talk on this forum at all around child care costs? A very half arsed search found nothing.
It seems to me like an absolutely broken industry in Ireland where the relationship between supply and demand is completely busted from a traditional economics point of view.
Demand for places for children in government registered creches are like gold dust if you canât find them you have to find an alternative which leads to a significant amount of childminders that are working for cash. Supply of creches is dwindling with large numbers closing due to the crushing costs of keeping the business running e.g. insurance.
There is essentially a two tier system whereby if you can manage to get your child into a creche you get all the benefits of the National Childcare Scheme. i.e. Either the universal subsidy or the income assessed subsidy.
From talking to people in a similar situation to us it seems like if you canât get your child into a creche and you donât have any immediate family options then youâre pushed down the unregulated route and are probably going to pay at least twice what you would have paid otherwise.
It was a big talking point in the general election for about 2-3 days and then it just fell off the radar.
I have two small children and this is the second biggest cost to me at the moment outside my mortgage.
Yep. Shocking all round. Heavily funded but theyâre closing and struggling to keep staff. Someoneâs making serious coin. Insurance companies most likely.
I send mine for an hour in the morning for breakfast club and they walk them into school then. Twice in the past month they have contacted all parents asking/pleading for anyone who doesnât badly need the services that week to contact them as they donât have enough staff to serve all. Similar story in nearby crechesâŚ
Id say discussed plenty on here years agoâŚcrèche staff are paid an absolute pittance. Itâs a disgrace as they are absolutely pivotal in preparing a child for school not just in socialising them but in giving them a positive experience of being dropped in the morning, if kids learn to dislike that at an early age then school wonât be easy
Broken system as right
The eldest starts school in September - after schools clubs/services/places all but non existent.
We met with a lady who had three school going kids and was willing to child mind at her house for a few hours. She said she could only do Monday to Thursday and wanted then bones of âŹ800 a month for 2.5hours a day 4 days a week.
Jaysus
She will find someone in bond who will pay that no doubt.
When I moved home first young fella couldnât go to crèche with his sister because the younger rooms were full. An older lady friends with my parents took him from 8am til 6pm 3 days a week for a hundred a weekâŚshe was nearly retired from childminding and had two girls in sixth that she had minded since they were 2. They doted on my lad like he was a toy⌠He meets all three of them now and they be poking and prodding him and asking him a thousand q and he doesnât remember one iota of the few years there aside from what we have told him
Jaysus. Our lass does 14 hours a week in afterschool. âŹ40 per week. Not too bad in fairness.
