Do We Play Out Or Play Safe?

AnonyMouse_29641 · 2010-11-03T13:30:19+0000

I have a house full of football-mad boys four afternoons a week (aged four to nine). I take them to play in the (unregistered but safe and risk assessed) garden during the Summer but it is very wet now and some parents fret about mud and wet clothes (and the lawn needs time to recuperate). I have said no more football on the grass! Even though there is ample (registered) decked space for other outdoor games, a rebellion is only just being suppressed. We live in a quiet cul-de-sac of eight houses and I take my own boys (five and seven) out to play football in the street as have all the other children who have ever lived in the street. I put the bins out near the top of the street and stand there to watch for any cars coming in or out - rare. Some of the minded children have come for play-dates and have played out there, and now think I should take them when they are being minded. My instinct is to take them out and be damned - that childminding should be a natural extension of the family. I think however that OFSTED would have a different view - that the family/home should be like more like a day nursery. I suppose I am less worried about what OFSTED think and more fearful that my insurance would be compromised should something go wrong - a tooth lost, or concussion from hitting the curb. What sayeth the Forum? Honey

By AnonyMouse_29641
November 3, 2010 in All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues

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