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Lives in lockdown: parents’ accounts
- We are a family of five, one grown up daughter and two younger children who I care for
- Shona talks about the impact the Coronavirus outbreak is having on her son
- Lucy is trying to continue her daughter's schooling and keep up with her own work
- Carolyn describes a week in her family's lockdown
- Becoming a new mum in lockdown
- Michelle is a single mum of three
- Lockdown is really affecting my anxiety and PTSD
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- Lorraine's a professional childminder and is working through lockdown
- I have a daughter in P5 and a son in S4, home schooling has been challenging
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Lorraine, a professional childminder, is continuing to childmind
I'm a registered professional childminder and I'm currently working with two key worker families.
I miss all my other childminding 'leopard cubs' (my service is called Lorraine's Leopard Cubs). The children in my service are coping really well while their parents are working through Covid 19. I have a private childcare page through Facebook where I keep in contact with all the other children I look after. They are all loving the precious time with their mums and dads and others that live in their homes with them.
This is a scary, uncertain time for all of us but children are just as vulnerable and scared as we are. We must try to make this a happy time for them, filled with adventures and learning. We must strive to meet all their little needs and answer all their worries with honesty and love. Children are very resilient.... I love my job and even more so at this lock down time, it is so important that I support my ‘key worker families’ by keeping the children in my service feeling loved, warm and secure.
Well .... that's just my job ♥️ Stay safe everyone ❤️
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Lives in lockdown: parents’ accounts
- We are a family of five, one grown up daughter and two younger children who I care for
- Shona talks about the impact the Coronavirus outbreak is having on her son
- Lucy is trying to continue her daughter's schooling and keep up with her own work
- Carolyn describes a week in her family's lockdown
- Becoming a new mum in lockdown
- Michelle is a single mum of three
- Lockdown is really affecting my anxiety and PTSD
- Working and home schooling
- Lorraine's a professional childminder and is working through lockdown
- I have a daughter in P5 and a son in S4, home schooling has been challenging
- All parents are struggling with home learning, even with adequate resources
- A mum of four talks about her lockdown challenges
- Jane is a foster carer with three children
- Life in lockdown has been a strange time
- Family support and parenting
- Early learning and childcare
- Family friendly working
- Policy articles and updates
- Consultation responses and briefings
-
Lives in lockdown: parents’ accounts
- Facts about families
- Resources
- E-news sign-up
- E-news archive