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Family of three kids ages 15, 13 and 8. I am looking for someone from 1pm to 7:30 5 days a weeks. Jobs will be to pick up 8 year old from school in Dulwich and walk home (or to after school events), cook dinner for the children and light housekeeping, including laundry and put 8 year old to bed. We have a cleaner who is employed twice a week. We would like someone who can commit long term and who can stay over the odd weekend if the parents travel. We are based in West Dulwich. We are a busy happy family. Someone with a good sense of humour, fun and reliable. Hourly rate will be commensurate with experience. We have a small dog, so must be comfortable with dogs and able to walk the dog. Please DM if you are interested.

Hi, What is the going rate for an experienced nanny to look after three children with two in full time school. This would not be a share. I guess this may correspond to looking after two kids full time. I am looking for ideas as to what the current going rates are. Please specify if you mean Net or Gross as I know people do this differently now and Gross rates are becoming more common.

This article explains a lot. http://www.cityam.com/248387/southern-rail-row-isnt-just-battle-between-operator-and

I have a 7 year old who I think would benefit from a therapist. She is a bright articulate child but she has a very bad temper. She is extremely hard on herself and completely unable to cope with stress. She can be extremely disrespectful to her adults and throw big tantrum even at this age. When she has not flown into a rage or otherwise storming around the house she is an angel. Lovely, overly generous, creative and happy. I wonder if anyone has any experience with using a therapist to help a child deal with their anger and learn how to cope with stressful situations. We try to do simple things like send her to her room to calm down, read a book etc. and these techniques work but usually we have had a massive fight before where she is violent towards her younger siblings or us. I was hoping we could teach her techniques to avoid getting to such a bad place in the first place. All thoughts and recommendations for any therapists welcome.

This was happening a lot over the winter months. I was told on a number of occassions that Southern relied on drivers doing a certain amount of overtime. In other words they have no fixed contract for drivers to cover a significant amount of the route and Southern just cross their fingers and hope drivers will put their hands up for overtime. It is an absolute disgrace to run an essential public service like this. Imagine if your ambulance never showed up because they had no drivers who volunteered for overtime! How they can be allowed by law to run a train service this way is just shocking. The government should step in and make this pratice illegal. All trains should have drivers allocated to them.

I used to live in East Dulwich near Goose Green. Aircraft noise was horendous and after 5 years I realised I could just bite the bullet and move. Life is too short to live with something that spoils the simple enjoyment of your home on a regular basis. I moved a bit south to West Dulwich and I see the planes mostly flying safely in the distance and count my lucky stars. I have looked at the news of a third runway at Heathrow with a lot of disgust. The numbers are staggering on how much they want to increase the numbers of flights. But what I find really disturbing is that one of the main reasons I see touted as why we need a huge hub airport and more capacity is that the UK offers a fraction of the flights to Asian cities that like Frankfurt do. The UK can't compete, be a global powerhouse etc. Now clearly those that put the report together do not understand Asian flights as they also say that a third runway should be accompanied by a ban on night flights (no flights before 6am). This would certainly go towards making the runway more acceptable as it would allow people to sleep BUT almost all Asian flights arrive before 6am. For a flight to take off from China and arrive after 6am you need that flight to leave around 2am! They want to build a runway which cannot supply the solution to the problem, the need for a massive 24h hub airport.

If you are working full time I would go with a nanny share without a doubt. They are likely around the same price, though nanny share may be slightly higher. From the adults side the plus points of a nanny share is that at least half the time you don't have to drop off and pick up. Every day, 5 days a week, for months on end, getting your little one to and from nursery can be tiring and stressful. Second you will almost never have to appoligise to your boss about taking time off work to care for your sick baby as a nanny is perfectly able to stay at home cuddling, administering calpol ect to a sickly child, where a nursery sends them straigh home. As your little one gets older they will make increasing messes with messy play, food etc. Your nanny will keep all the child related messes in order and do their laundry too! If you have to stay late from work for anything your nanny is often able to babysit. If you train breaks down etc you do not have to stress about being late to pick-up. Your nanny will be able to continue the weaning process, intrudicing your baby to great home cooked food and be able to discuss any feeding issues. Your nanny will also be able to help easily with potty training. From the baby's view point nanny's are also amazing. They have one relationship with one carer. They will both bond and your nanny will get to know your baby really well. She will be able to talk about how your baby was that day (feeling a bit off, hitting new milestones, hit a playmate over the head with a toy) and then discuss issues and how to tackle them. Your baby will also develop a bond with the other baby/toddler you share with as they will constantly see each other. Your nanny will be able to reinforce the rules you set and help your baby develop a routine, disciple and manners. Amazing how they teach them to share, tiddy up and not throw food! Your nanny should also talk to them constantly in effective ways and help with their speech, encouraging and correcting them. Finally you nanny will be able to take them out everyday to the park. museum etc. Make sure you have a nanny which drives and who likes to get out and about. It is wonderfully stimulating for the children to be in the different parks, groups and at the museums. There is so much for young children in the area and you nanny will be able to take advantege of it. Find the right family to share with before you find the nanny then pick the nanny together. There are a lot of wonderful nannys working in the Dulwich area. But the family can be more tricky in terms of how close they are, there budget, the hours they want, their views on doing paid activities and outings. Nursery's are also great environments, but I think they work best for part time working mum's. I work full time and my nanny (and the various shares I have had) have been crucial in allowing me to go back to work full time. Nursery is very tiring for a baby/toddler and they are shattered by the end of the week. But no matter what you do I agree with the advice above, do not mix! Your baby will be developping it's ability to attach in those months when you first start back at work. They will not understand the merry go round of mummy, nursery, nanny. It will be very stressful for them and you.

I currently have a full time nanny but next year littlest one going to school full time. Does anyone have luck finding a good afterschool nanny who can do five days a week from 3 to 7:30 and then some holidays? I am getting worried I won't be able to find someone long term but then I can't keep my current nanny and school fees as well. What type of people are afterschool nanny only? Are there any agencies which specialize in this? All thoughs and advice welcome. Thanks