In many ways this is more of a reassurance thread as I’m not sure what alternatives there are but open to suggestions!
DD goes to nursery for two days a week but they are opposite ends of the week (Monday and Friday.) Probably because of this she’s not massively settled at nursery, doesn’t enjoy it and is very, very quiet, almost to the point of mutism.
Nursery aren’t concerned because they have heard her talking to me and to other children (and if we meet a nursery friend in another setting she identifies them and seems happy to see them) but it is definitely something she endures rather than enjoys.
She turns three this summer and I had her down to increase to one half day a week from September and go up to a full day from January (so three days a week.) However something has been lost in translation and the nursery don’t have a record of this - I don’t know why but it doesn’t matter. The point is there is no room so the Monday and Friday is the only nursery / preschool she’ll get before reception in September 2027.
I am just a bit worried that she’ll start reception without ever having ‘properly’ experienced a social setting, a routine and the other things they teach them in preschool. I have an older child who did three days a week at the same nursery and he got so much out of it, still friends with some children who attended. So I just feel a bit like I’ve let her down.