The Daddy Thread

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The pleasures of raising youngsters in the capital

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currently spending €30k pa on child care - whine over

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The greens reduced it by 50%

FfG plan to inrease it by 20%

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We pulled some strings to get a crèche in our local town. The fee was the fee - we were just happy to have a place.

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This is the beauty of living in your place of birth, in your own community. Villages/townlands raise a child. Living next door to grandparents and family is a God send. There was always someone to pick up the small ones from school and hold onto them for a while until they could be picked up.

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Only country folk live near their parents and family?

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Rarely possible in Dublin anyway.

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The local national school opened an after school service this year. We have our girl in for about 7 hours in total for the princely sum of €23. The second is in ECCE in a local creche 3 days per week and we are being charged €18 per week for that privelige for the hours outside of the free pre school hours. So the bones of €200 a month on Childcare which is a pittance really.

The companies in Dublin and other cities, usually large companies who handle multiple facilities and charging hundreds of euros per week per child while paying pittance to staff and benefitting from the NCS, ECCE and Core Funding schemes, are essentially gangsters.

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I didn’t mention country folk did I?

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What’s the best thing to do here, the mrs is starting menopause and the little is starting to show signs of hitting puberty, what’s the best thing to do, pack up the dog and live in the attic?

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Is going to fight for Ukraine an option?

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Cc @Tank

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Any wisdom to share for an 11 week old with Colic?? Not bad at the moment, he kicks off in the evening for a couple of hours

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They generally begin to shake off the colic at that age. You won’t know yourself in a few weeks

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The families are complicit in paying it you’d feel

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Youngest’s 2nd birthday on Monday so we’re having a small get together tomorrow at the house.

Goal made, pint out. Carnage awaits

I don’t know how I do it etc @Fagan_ODowd

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