What is your one dream a nursery would offer?

[idontwantthislifenomore]

Is there anything you really wish a nursery would offer you that they currently don't?

[TiggyD]

Me a job.

[idontwantthislifenomore]

TiggyD it would be an hours travel each way for you so you would have to decide if that was reasonable for you

[BlueBee]

I've just been looking at nurseries and I suppose I'd like more open spaces, like a bigger activity type garden.

[MaccaPaccaismyNemesis]

A proper room for naps, all of the ones I've seen have either mats or camp bed type things that come out in the main room. Without a nap DS falls to bits mid afternoon, so it put me off nursery until he stopped napping in the day.

[BikeRunSki]

To wash and dry wet and mucky clothes before I picked the dc up. I realise this is impractical.

[idontwantthislifenomore]

Thanks for answers so far please keep them coming

[TiggyD]

Nearer to me would be better. Can you shift it over a bit?

I would say good knowledgeable staff should be tops of anybody's list.

As a member of staff I would want a positive 'can do' ethos to the place.

And a massive garden/area of woodland.

[maroonedwithfour]

Flexibility with hours. Ds' nursery very good on this.

[BrianButterfield]

To be open in the evening one night a month so people with no babysitters can have date night!

[BikeRunSki]

this

[Ivytheterrible]

Evenings and sleepovers!

[maroonedwithfour]

Im liking the evenings and sleepovers boarding im sure they do that in some country?

[TiggyD]

Evenings until when? The children would get put to bed at nursery then taken home at 10? How would it be staffed? By the same people who started work at 9 in the morning and will need to get some sleep before leaving for work at 8 the next morning? How much would you pay?

I can understand parents wanting it, and the nursery management, but what about the poor staff?

[KatyMac]

Ideally a profit - 12 years in & actually I'd quite like to break even

not the answer you hoped for...sorry

[UnidentifiedSighingObject]

Pretty much what nursery does offer (thank my lucky stars daily): kind caring staff, flexible attitude, joint planning if any issues, great communication, varied activities, loads of outdoor time and space, lots of music and dance, lots of crafts and cooking, and yep, they even launder the clothes if LO has an accident.

[BrianButterfield]

Well, I was supposing evenings offered as an optional extra, probably at a premium rate for parents, so staff being given the chance to be rotad on one evening a month if they chose to earn extra. There are plenty of young staff at my nursery who would do this. It's not necessarily 'poor staff' if they're paid overtime.

[BossWitch]

A dark, quiet sleep room for babies. Dd will sleep for over two hours in her cot at home but at nursery she will often only have a couple of short (30 mins or so) naps.

Cots, dark, quiet, video baby monitor.

[mycrazytoddler]

Big outdoor space, all weather, grass, plants, trees, climbing frames etc

[EMS23]

Help in from/ out to the car on drop off and pick up, especially on rainy days and especially once I had two children under two to deal with.

[TiggyD]

WARNING - JOKE

Maybe they could offer an "hangover special"? You get in late night and pay the sitter and go to bed. The nursery staff come in as arranged beforehand early in the morning and take the children to nursery until parents have recovered.

[NotCitrus]

When I had SPD and couldn't walk, I paid a couple nursery staff to collect ds and take him to nursery. Invaluable.

Competent, caring staff with energy and ideas and respect for small children is all I ask for, though more outside space would be great. And enough buggy and scooter storage space.

[RobotHamster]

Earlier starts. All but one nursery near us opens at 8am or later. What time do they think people start with an hours commute

[BikeRunSki]

Some interesting ideas to engage bright Autumn born 4 year old as they go through their "extra" year of nursery.

[4candles]

We get very generic feedback from the nursery. IE DS ate all his lunch and had seconds off pud and had a lovely time.

What I would like is just a little bit tidbit about the day. doesn't need to be much. ie. DS and his little friend had a brilliant time racing around on the trikes.

Just so I get a sense of what he enjoys and does.

[Ijustworemytrenchcoat]

A great outdoor space with interesting play equipment to practise climbing and balancing, things like tyres and so on.

There are very few 'Tumble Tots' activities in my area and the ones we have are oversubscribed, so I would like a nursery to do little activities and exercise classes. The nursery I would love to send my child to (but can't as it's not practical for me to get to ) has somebody who comes in and does yoga for example.