Tropical timetable at childcare: this is what you think

It’s hot. Bloody hot. A number of childcare organizations have therefore decided to set up a tropical timetable. This means that parents sometimes have to pick up their children at 12.30 pm. Other daycare centers are even closed. But is that the right solution? And how many parents are in trouble because of the closure? We asked you on social media.

A selection of the responses:

Childcare is allowed to set a tropical schedule on hot days, so that parents have to pick up their child at half past twelve. What do you think?

• Pauline: “No, of course not, let’s continue to act normal for a while. It’s not a war, it’s just very hot. And closing the daycare center is moving the problem: if my child can’t go to daycare, I can’t go to work in care.”
• Suzan: “Whatever a school, after-school care or childcare does, they never do it right! There are always people who comment.”
• Lumni: “I am a childminder who is enjoying the day with all the babysitting children. And I don’t think that’s a problem at all! I provide water fun and fun here…”
• Myrna: “I think it’s great. No childcare here today or tomorrow, but the oldest tomorrow has a tropical schedule from school. If it hadn’t been for that I would have kept him at home myself. Cool off and play in the pool at home.”
• Pauline: “Maybe everyone should come and have a look at the workplace before they make their judgment. Unlike most parents, we just have 16 with 3, instead of 1, 2 or 3 at home.”
• Kim: “Sure! The educators are only human. It is impossible to work with such high temperatures.”
• Anne: “Nonsense. Often tastier at daycare than at home. Mostly air con and otherwise there is water to play with. Parents just have to work, they don’t get any time off.”
• Desiree: “Ridiculous. You just pay for it and the nurseries can also be kept cool. People in other sectors also have to work in the heat, right?”
• Mireille: “Here the tropical schedule means: start up outside and go inside after 11 a.m. Play with water a lot and apply it well.”
• Willeke: “It is also very hot in a nursing home, care continues there… This is not okay for working parents who have no other option!
• Iris: “I think it makes sense. Only purely for the well-being of your child. In such hot weather, your child should be supervised by one of the parents.”

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