Where are your grandchildren when they are not with you?

[Gemini]

By that I mean, when their parents are working.
I'm just being nosey
Are they with other grandparents or family members, at nursery, childminders, or with a family friend? Or are they with you whenever the parents work?

My GD and little brother, GS2, have one day a week with me, one with their other grandparents. As DD works part time in their own business she can work it so she can be at school for GD on the other 3 days, so no after school care needed. Baby GS goes to nursery 2 half days a week, and sometimes a full day if she is really busy. The other gran and I get on well, and will fill in for each other for holidays, appointments etc, if we are able (harder for me as I have other GC duties, plus my mum)

GS1 has a day with me each week. Now he has started school that is just after school during term time.
His other grandma lives too far away to help. Now he is too old for nursery, there is no one to care for him regularly in the holidays apart from me. DD2 helps when she can and one of DD1's friends, a lovely laid back mum and foster carer, helps too, so there is other help.
DD1's boss has allowed her to adjust her working hours so that she can have most of the school holidays off. She works a full day on the day that I have GS.

Both daughters are very considerate of me, and don't ask more of me than I can do. One day a week for each set is enough to be honest, bearing in mind I do a lot for my mother as well. I do stand in and do extra days when needed, but it is rare, and DD2 in particular is likely to book them into nursery or Holiday Club rather than ask either set of grandparents for more help.

[Oma]

Now we only have GS1 after school 2 days a week and whenever he decides to stay over , he goes to his Grans 2 days and DD has half day on a Monday well 8-2.30 ,
Myself and his Gran share holidays too , 3 days with me 2 with Gran
Youngest grandchildren do after school club, and in the holidays they are with their mother as she's a teacher she has the same time off.

[Nanto2girls]

Our youngest is usually at home. She has a brother who is about 4 now(not ours) and she looks after him while her mother is at work (part time).
She still has time to see her friends though. Her dad has his days off during the week, so she will go to his during school holidays.
Still stays with us most weekends.

[ZIZI]

I have never had the children after school except once when parents went away during term time and I had Sadie and Joe and stayed at theirs. Other than that we have only ever had them weekends or the odd day during the school holidays due to us both working although husband has them sometimes on his own due to his shift patterns. I find having the three of them together quite hard work as Joe has got older as he winds the other two up and then they all misbehave. However having said that Ben hasn’t stayed with us for ove 18 months as he suddenly took against sleeping away from home. He has occasionally stayed at the other nanny and grandad but he sees much more of them so possibly that is reason.

Bens mum works from home and if she has to go away (she is a journalist) son can make arrangements to pick him up as he is MD of his own company or dils parents who are both retired will. Ole team him.

Joe and Sadies mum works in the family business (electrical company) so she makes up the rules as she goes along. Her parents live in Portugal so little help there except for holidays.

All of them are in after school and weekend activities and there are a lot of “play dates” and sleepovers. We do not see so much of them now due to their hectic social lives (acting clubs, horse riding, Tae Kwan Do, rugby, ballet, game club to mention just a few).

[Shemadee]

We pick GS2 up from school on Thursdays and have both boys all day Thursdays during school holidays plus an extra day. The other grandparents do much the same. DD1’s hours are quite flexible and her OH runs his own staffing agency. No other GC as yet.

[Qwerty]

Eldest G/d is at school and then after school club till mum picks her up, my other two are with me all day most Tuesdays their mum is at home with them on Monday and they are at nursery 3 full days . School hols is quite chaotic all three usually with me 2/3 days a week 😢 eldest does go to holiday club a day or two in the hols she likes to go as she sees most of her friends there