I am really struggling to know what's best and would love your opinions.
DS is 1. He goes to nursery 9-3 for 3 days a week. I have an older DD who went to an absolutely excellent childminder, so I have a. high standards and b. no other nursery to compare to!
The nursery is fine and DS seems happy enough (though he is a sunny little soul who is happy everywhere, so...) Staff seem nice, and fairly warm and caring, which is most important thing and reason I chose them.
My issue is that the nursery staff don't ever seem to do much with the babies. They are very full, quite a few babies, and just keeping up with the babies' needs seems to keep them incredibly busy - it feels like they are constantly firefighting and rushing and stressing a bit just to do basic care.
Now to be clear I do NOT expect miracles. But I did expect them to spend a bit of time doing something organised with the babies - singing some songs, offering a bit of messy play, reading a couple of stories. They promise all this stuff, but never actually seem to find the time to do it. As a result the babies spend all / most of their time on the floor with the toys. Fine in itself, but I worry that there is absolutely zero proactive, individual, read-three-of-us-a-story-type time.
What does your nursery do? Can you help me get an idea about how normal this is, or if I should be trying somewhere else?
Thanks.
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OhGood · 19/06/2014 12:17
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