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The one I like best, or the year-round one?

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Mij · 03/10/2008 11:59

Trawling around nurseries for DD, 2.25yrs. There are two great Montessori ones that DD really liked on visits (although one was a bit misleading cos she just got to do snack time and singing!) and that I am drawn to above the other, perfectly OK but not-first-choice ones.

The problem is they're both time-time only. DD is first and currently only child, I've been back at work a year, 2 weekdays a week and most Saturdays. I want to keep on the childminder at least one day a week, but wtf do we do in the holidays?

DP and I work together so we can't both be taking loads of time off over the summer. No family nearby.

So do I go for the one my gut tells me is best for DD, or do I go for the perfectly adequate one (which is also just round the corner from the school she'll eventually attend so might make friends she'd go up with) that is year-round?

The other alternative I've thought about is to go to the term-time one, and then just blag any free days her childminder has through other kids having holidays/staying away cos parents are teachers etc, to make up work time. And/or asking the full-time nursery if we could have a holiday contract! If she started in the next summer holidays, she'd be three and would have a good six weeks to settle, and I think would be fine to go back in half terms etc from then on. They do term-time only contracts so must have some space in holidays...

Dunno. Can't stop dithering.

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Mij · 03/10/2008 12:01

Oh, and alternative question - what do other people do in the holidays? Have been trying to envisage some kind of co-operative scheme between friends where three of us have each other's kids one day a week to enable the other two to work. Hmmm...

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elkiedee · 03/10/2008 12:06

Are there any more nurseries you can look at that are year round (or closer to it) rather than term time only?

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Mij · 03/10/2008 12:40

Have done - hated all of them. There's only the one I mentioned (near DDs future school) that is year-round that I'd consider, and it would be OK, but the term-time ones just have the edge. Particularly in terms of suiting DDs personality (very self-directed, not biddable!) and I didn't take to the year-round one's staff quite so well as the other two.

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