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I have a young daughter, my partner is looking to go back to work. In an ideal world, she’d be a stay at home mum till our youngest goes to school but financial pressures mean we cannot do that.

I know daycares are regulated but I’m still really not at ease about the idea of leaving my baby with strangers all day.

Has anyone else faced this? What did you do to vet the places you looked at? Is there a rating scale I can look at for daycares? Do they get audited?

I just want my girl to be safe

  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    12 days ago

    We visited the kindy during a normal day; we wanted to see how the teachers interacted with the kids and what facilities the kids had available.

    We settled on a local Steiner kindy; the staff are all qualified in both ECE and Steiner education. Great people, quite home like; the kids get to help out in the kitchen if they want, rolling the bread buns to be baked or preparing the lunch. Or they just run around and play, dig holes or make up games and stories.

    I would advise visiting whilst there is a normal session on.

    We did try an ‘in home care’ place before the kindy and we were not happy with it; we lasted around 6 months there. I think it is a bit hit and miss, you could get an awesome one or a mediocre one. I don’t think there are many actual bad ones.