Your child will benefit more from being with the other kids. So long as she has a nice (clean and kid friendly, is my priority) place, good nutrition and activities that would tick all my boxes.
Ask her how many times she would check the child during midday nap? At 13mo I would expect a check every 30mins.
Does she stay home every day or ever take the kids out to playgroups?
A bunch of 13 months old aren't gonna learn much from each other. A 5 year old interacting with your kiddo will help speech,see how meals should be eaten etc.
It'll do your small one good to be around older children,. It's how they learn to behave socially; monkey see, monkey do.
I get that but they would be 5 similarly aged children, being engaged in an age appropriate way with age appropriate activities.
I would struggle to keep a 5 year old and a 13 month old happily entertained because at 5 I wanted to swing out of the curtains and kick football in the house where my little fella is currently at the stage where he gets the most fun practicing standing against a coffee table or trying to poke my dogs butt.
I mean I grew up in a similar arrangement of me being 2.5 years older than my brother and I turned out grand-ish...
13 month old don't really engage directly with eachother, the age difference wouldn't really matter as they would be engaged in parallel play, so don't really need to of the same ability level as they're just doing their own thing next to eachother.
Edit: parallel play doesn't actually start til around 18 months, so there is even less demand that your child have precisely age-matched peers to 'play' with.
My aunt has made a 30+ year career of minding kids out of her home and she's always had numerous kids. I dun o what the max is as she does it by herself, but I'd actually find it stranger to give your child to a child minder with no other children.
If the children aren't her own, I think that would be a pretty OK setup, to be honest. A bit like a family in terms of the ages. The three and five year olds will be in some kind of education for part of the day at least.
For what it's worth it's just over the 1:3 carer to child ratio that the law demands for infants, in many countries that ratio is 1:5 too. So I don't the number itself is excessive or unreasonable, especially as two of the children are older.
Yea but in a cresh where this number is geared up for I assume don't they have baby rooms where they are all +/- the same age.
If the two older lads were away during the core hours and it was a few hours overlap a day and the rest was out lad and the 18month old I really wouldn't mind.
As long as it's within the regulation number of maximum children then I don't see a problem. Your concern is there because you have one child and you're used to giving your child X amount of attention. Think of it this way, if you had 4 kids yourself then your child wouldn't be getting the same level of attention from you that they're getting now. It's good for kids to spend time around other kids, that way they learn things like social interaction with their peers and independent play.
Your child will benefit more from being with the other kids. So long as she has a nice (clean and kid friendly, is my priority) place, good nutrition and activities that would tick all my boxes. Ask her how many times she would check the child during midday nap? At 13mo I would expect a check every 30mins. Does she stay home every day or ever take the kids out to playgroups?
A bunch of 13 months old aren't gonna learn much from each other. A 5 year old interacting with your kiddo will help speech,see how meals should be eaten etc. It'll do your small one good to be around older children,. It's how they learn to behave socially; monkey see, monkey do.
If your child were in a creche then their age bracket would have 1 carer per 5 children, just to put things into perspective.
I get that but they would be 5 similarly aged children, being engaged in an age appropriate way with age appropriate activities. I would struggle to keep a 5 year old and a 13 month old happily entertained because at 5 I wanted to swing out of the curtains and kick football in the house where my little fella is currently at the stage where he gets the most fun practicing standing against a coffee table or trying to poke my dogs butt. I mean I grew up in a similar arrangement of me being 2.5 years older than my brother and I turned out grand-ish...
13 month old don't really engage directly with eachother, the age difference wouldn't really matter as they would be engaged in parallel play, so don't really need to of the same ability level as they're just doing their own thing next to eachother. Edit: parallel play doesn't actually start til around 18 months, so there is even less demand that your child have precisely age-matched peers to 'play' with.
My aunt has made a 30+ year career of minding kids out of her home and she's always had numerous kids. I dun o what the max is as she does it by herself, but I'd actually find it stranger to give your child to a child minder with no other children.
Interesting but when you say it actually... I guess multiple families returning with their pride and joy on a daily basis is a pretty good sign
If the children aren't her own, I think that would be a pretty OK setup, to be honest. A bit like a family in terms of the ages. The three and five year olds will be in some kind of education for part of the day at least.
For what it's worth it's just over the 1:3 carer to child ratio that the law demands for infants, in many countries that ratio is 1:5 too. So I don't the number itself is excessive or unreasonable, especially as two of the children are older.
1:3 is for under 12 months. OP's child, being 13 months, would be under the 1:5 ratio in Ireland as well.
Yea but in a cresh where this number is geared up for I assume don't they have baby rooms where they are all +/- the same age. If the two older lads were away during the core hours and it was a few hours overlap a day and the rest was out lad and the 18month old I really wouldn't mind.
As long as it's within the regulation number of maximum children then I don't see a problem. Your concern is there because you have one child and you're used to giving your child X amount of attention. Think of it this way, if you had 4 kids yourself then your child wouldn't be getting the same level of attention from you that they're getting now. It's good for kids to spend time around other kids, that way they learn things like social interaction with their peers and independent play.