Latchkeys kids or in care?

[missie_mack]

I wonder whether someone cares for your young teens after school if you are working (ie 12 and 13 year olds)?
Is there a service like after school care you have access to? :detective:

[overitand36]

good question I don't think secondary school have any type of care??

[Miss_N]

I wonder whether someone cares for your young teens after school if you are working (ie 12 and 13 year olds)?
Is there a service like after school care you have access to? :detective:

I know of a service ;) that caters specifically for children in Year 8 to 12. They run a seperate room with an age appropriate program that also allows for these children to work on assessments and homework.

The service has 10 - 15 children per afternoon booked in so some parents do use it! :yes:

[MummaBear03]

Check out what your PCYC offers, one here has children up to 15 years of age, not sure of the other 2, might give them a call now, been meaning to call about their after school care to find out about waiting lists and seats on the buses. Will ask them what age they go up to, I think they all go to 15.

A friend of mine got her daughter into volunteering at St Vinnies, she would sort everything that came in bags and put them in the appropriate piles. It was just near her school so she'd go there and her mum would pick her up from there of an afternoon when she finished work at 5. They'd call if there was a delay too so she always knew where her daughter was and it was good for her to be involved in something in the community.

I'm hoping to have a job working only school hours, and with holidays off (ie: in a school!) before much longer to avoid this problem.

[OJandMe]

I was wondering this too. I have O and J in the YMCA outside school hours care, and they only go up to 12.

I don't feel comfortable with the idea of O and J having to be at home by themselves after school after they're 12. (A long way away I know... )

I might just see if when it gets to that age they can arrange to be with other friends at a supervised house.

Although, being a teacher myself, I'd just get them to come to my classroom after school and hang around till I was done with the stuff I need to do.

[Ffrenchknickers]

Interesting question :detective: I wont ever let my kids be latchkey kids after the things I got up to between the hours of 3 and 7pm :o:no:

[mummyrissa]

I know of one after school care centre that cares for children in year 7 & 8 they have option of hanging with younger kids or a seperate room is set up so they can watch tv or do homework. Only older children have access to this room. I noticed that the older kids who went there had younger siblings there.

[farmerswife]

Doesn't affect me yet obviously but...

SIL's eldest goes to the library after school. They have people there to supervise till 5.30. Doesn't cost her much as they only supervise, don't provide anything. Kids are expected to do homework.

Most of my friend's kids go back to their friends house, do homework etc. till they get picked up. At that age they generally have friends they can go with and are old enough that is not usually an issue with other parents. This is what my mum did. We had one friend who was at our house every night after school for about 4 years!!