Convener:
Sophie Trott
Summary of discussion, conclusions and/or
recommendations:
I wasn’t able to stay for my session because I needed
to take a very tired child home. But I
did have a few chats with various other people about this, some parents, some
not. And I’ve had some ideas.
I understand that from a legal point of view, it is
tricky for Improbable to provide a crèche or even talk about provision for one
from an outside group.
There were a number of informal arrangements, which
worked for those people who were already friends. However, those who don’t have other friends
with kids are excluded from this.
What if I set up a facebook group for people with
children wanting to come to D&D? It
could post on the D&D facebook (group? Page?) without having come from the
organisers of the event. People would
then be able to say to each other how many children they needed to bring and
make all sorts of reciprocal arrangements.
For example I could say something like: I’m bringing my 2 year old, and would be
happy to mind another child for a session if someone’ll do the same for
me.
That’s what I’ll do then. Will try and call it kidsatD&D or
something.
Another thought about the geography of the room is
that I noticed when I was hanging out with my daughter and her friend, they
were really happy to be in the middle of things, and this didn’t seem to bother
anyone. Maybe once the opening circle
has happened some toys and drawing stuff could be in the middle of the room as
well as in the little ‘fenced off’ area.
