Childminder

[Mayana1]

Hello to all,

I agreed with one of childminders (by recommendation of my neighbour) to bring my child to her setting from September. We did few hours trial, he was fine there, but he is constantly saying he doesn't want to go there anymore. Another neighbour's child, who goes there as well, doesn't want to go there either. Mine gets upset even if I turn on the road that goes there. I don't know what to think on that. Thing that bothers me the most is the fact that she doesn't communicate promptly. It takes forever to get a reply (we agreed to contact her when I come back from holidays, which was last week and it took her 6 days to come back to me and she only replied after I called her - she didn't pick up- and she saw my missed call). I appreciate that she is busy during the day, but I don't think 6 days is a standard responding time. I was actually worried she will not come back to me at all, or she will ditch me. As well I felt a bit uncomfortable communicating with her in the first place.
I am considering another childminder now and I might found a potential one, but I already signed a contract with her. I am only sending him for 15 hrs, funded. How to get out of the contract if I decide so?

My dear too many red flags … find another minder don’t even think twice about it … contracts can be broken and are all the time … if she wants an explanation say grandparents have stepped in to mind your child or something like that .

She is very higly rated and my other neighbour is pleased with a progress of her child (but it's the fact that her child has a speech delay as he has mild autism and the minder actually worked hard with him to finally started talking, but even she agrees communication is terrible.) Both of my neighbours's children are going to school this year and they've been going there for quite some time. But the second ones's who is very talkative is keep on saying that he just doesn't want to go but looks like he doesn't want to learn, while mine loves learning. And her helper is really nice. I just can not figure out whether mine is just saying it, as he is so attached to me and don't want to be alone there (he is crying all the way down the road, but when he goes in, he is fine next minute I go away) but otherwise he is having a good time. Though communication is really annoying.