The End of Day Care…

I am not sure if it’s plain ignorance of if it’s just the fact that I underestimated my little one capabilities but I was really not very involved in his daycare activities.

I would drop him off to daycare at 8:30 and pick him up a bit before noon.

I would ask the people taking care of him if everything went well and the fact that they would answer by OK was good enough for me.

I figured that he had a good time socializing with the 35 plus kids that were jammed packed in the little daycare.

Don’t get me wrong; I knew that there were way too many kids in that room. But hey…at least he was seeing other kids.

I travelled to Haiti for a month and I decided not to take a short term Nanny and put him to daycare at Tina’s corner.  For those of you who don’t know this day care, it’s located at Laboule 13 and it’s really a kid-friendly facility with a wonderful staff. Noah, my mom and I fell in love with it at first sight and Noah was happy to go everyday.

To my greatest surprise, I received daily reports on how he spent his day, pictures in my mailbox during the day and weekly activities that he had done all week.

When he was sick, I would receive a phone call asking how he was and that he was missed.

Sadly, we had to live and go back home to our usual daycare, the 40 kids, no reports, no nothing….

In September, when he started at this daycare, I bought a binder were they were to place his pieces of art. So finally, I decided to ask to visualize my kid’s activities during the year…

Guess what? There were only 3 pages in the binder !!!!!!

And that is when I lost it !!!

Not only was I not nice to the people taking care of him, I did kind of a scene in front of a bunch of kids. Of course, that was completely blown out of proportion so I decided to go back in and apologize and decide to calmly ask them to walk me through a typical day at daycare. I soon realized that he was not doing much over there and that is why he was crying and did not want to stay.

…So, that was the end of it…

Noah will be staying at home until he starts school in September. Meanwhile, I need to become a pro at organizing activities and finding the time to stimulate his development while he’s at home. As for the socializing part, he will be playing with the kids in the neighborhood, his cousin and kids of friends.

I found a really nice website that gives you ideas of activities for toddler before 3:

http://www.teteamodeler.com/

Noah will have his first “Atelier d’Activité” with his friend Valentin on Thursday and the plan is to learn about insects.

Now I will just need to make work and playtime with Noah work ;)

Will keep you posted.