Gosh thats hard if you only have one to go to. There seems to be a childcare place on every corner down here !

When I started Uni this year I had to find somewhere in a hurry for Cait, only one day a week, who was three at the time and was happy to get in at the closest place, about a five minute walk from home.

I was never 100% happy with it - they watched a lot of TV, the menu and snacks were not the best, the staff were very young, they had nothing on paper that I could show my partner about the place, it was dark, there was NO security to get into the place ... but all I had heard about was how hard it was to find a place in a center.

I saw an ad for the ABC centers about a month ago and rang the closest looking for a monday or tuesday and they had a monday vacancy. I went there and was given a tour by the director and nearly cried. The place is AMAZING ! Big and bright, they eat better than we do at home, the carers have planning time, they keep all these notes on your child during the day. I pulled her out of the first place that day.

I plan on taking next year off Uni, and will go back in 2007 at which time, number 2 will be about 15 months and hopefully they will go there and Cait will be at school.


Barb.