Hi All,
Urgently seeking some advice from what seems like a very informative and switched on forum. We have been offered a move to Spore with my work. Currently we are based in the UK and both me and my husband work. I'm currently on maternity leave and we would move out with an 18 month old and a 4 year old. Both girls would go into school/nursery though I am really unsure as to how we would primarily cover the holidays. I'm thinking we would have a home help who would care for the girls a few hrs a day until we came home from school. Seems this is the norm and while very different from what we are used to (someone living in and the girls not having grp care rather depending on just one person) I think we could probably adjust to this and will likely end up feeling this is a good solution. Would you agree or is it better to have be parent be at home until a relationship and trust is built up with the home helper?
The big question for me is the school holidays. It looks like the are 15 weeks of holidays which after vacation from work leaves about 8-9 to be covered. I am not finding any summer camps that would cater for my children's ages or if I can it's half days for a few weeks. What do people do? Obviously I can try and ship relatives over but not for the whole time and this is not foolproof. Is there a smarter solution that you have all worked OR is the norm more to have one parent at home which is the sense I seem to be getting when I read various frums.
Help please! It's such a big move and we would only be happy and able to enjoy the Spore experience as a family if our girls were happy and well cared for. I can be flexible at work (and work 4 days not 5 anyway) and be home 2 days for school bus collection BUT it's the long holidays that I am concerned about. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is our stumbling block to making the move!
Thanks a lot. S