Community Posts, Tips & Support on Childcare & Education

Anyone heard any reviews on this nursery or know anyone that sends their child there?

I see lots of articles in Ireland covering this but is it for us other mummy's too?

Does anyone send their kids to preschool that are unvaxxed? What are the protocols?

My partner works shifts and my son goes to nursery 3 full days a week. If anyone has a similar arrangement, do you still send them in when one parent is off to stick with the routine?

Has anyone decided on a nursery theme yet? I'm on my 3rd boy and I can't decide what to do lol.

I know some people have to send their kids to nursery, but all i keep seeing is that people whos kids go to nursery are constantly ill. I have a autoimmune disease and really don’t need to be getting ill all the time. I don’t know what to do. I don’t want my baby being ill all the time, aswell as me. I just keep see...

If your baby goes to day care, how much do you pay each month!

My little one will be 1 on 5th Jan and starting nursery on 6th Jan. I have just gone to apply for the 15 funded hours via the government website, but it says my application is pending because I’m not returning to work within the next 31 days (I will be returning to work 20th Dec). However, my nursery wants the code ...

Hello can anyone please advise me on what I need to do about nursery iv been told waiting lists is massive my son is nearly 8 months do I start looking at what one I wil send him to now

With working in a school, I was hoping that I could use all of my childcare vouchers during term time only. However, I visited a local Montessori, who offered for the vouchers to be spread over 51 weeks instead, meaning that we would loose lots of hours? Has anybody looked into this yet? As I know spaces will be tig...

Is anybody else struggling with there application? I’m going back to work January and it says I can apply but I get nothing through. Confused!

For my 3 year old

I’m having a baby in January. He has a nursery space due to start Sept 2025 when will he be eligible for 15 free hours?

Hi All, I started to research nurseries. I was so happy for the Gov funded 30hs from Sept 2025 until I have been told by a couple of nurseries that they plan to increase their prices, so parents will still have to pay more and less the same money as now, being on a 15hs Gov funded scheme. Is anyone having the same e...

how does it work? I'm so confused my lo is entitled to 15 hours, does the nursery give free hours? or am I right to say I'm paying ? and why

My 8 month old has been attending a lovely child minder down the road twice a week for about a month now. The lady is so lovely, her house is so welcoming and my daughter seems to love it. Obviously I understood her terms and conditions when we decided to enrol her there, but I think I was so distracted with the tr...

I have 10 months baby girl , soon I will have a job so I want to look for good day care to put her in and government approved and not too expensive to put her there and it has to be in Brookyln. Thanks yall!

Do you need to have a nursery picked to apply for the tax free childcare? I'm moving end of the month and I'll be picking childcare from the start of November. I don't know if I need to have nursery/childminder codes to apply for the tax free childcare

So for... 1 day a week my LB attends private nursery 1 day a week with his Nannie 3 days a week with me. Come April next year I have the option to send him to school nursery 4 days per week or keep him in private nursery 2 days a week I'm kind of stuck what to do tbh . Is one better than the other , is he a bi...

Sooo i was for school for awhile and seeing alot of parents pulling or starting home school, or online school. What are the pros and what are the con?? My daughter has asd she is hight functioning. I'm really wanting to do k-12. What do they provide? is it worth it? Is online school better than school? Do they l...