Now that Yasin is 2 DH and I have decided to send him to one day a week at childcare. He started last week and I'm feeling really ambivilent about it now.
Last week he was OK when I dropped him off but they rang me at nap-time and said he was unsettled so I went to pick him up.
This week he started crying as soon as I drove through the gates. I rang up before nap-time to see how he was and they said he had been unsettled on and off so I decided to go and pick him up.
When I looked at the place it seemed really nice. The director goes to my gym and I quite like her and the children just let themselves into her office at will which I thought was a good sign that they were respected and comfortable IYKWIM.
Now I'm not so sure but I'm also not sure if my feeling are affected by the fact that Yasin hasn't been enjoying it. I'm a bit worried that they're letting the other kids push him around and call him names. When I took him out today one of the other kids said bye-bye (in a nice way) and then another one said bye-bye baby Yasin (in a not so nice way). There was something about his tone of voice and the way he called Yasin baby (I remember from my childhood that at that age baby was a bit of an insult) that kind of rang my alarm bells. Also his yoghurt was missing from his lunch box but not all over his clothes which makes me suspect that someone else ate it. I know these are tiny things and I feel paranoid and over-protective saying them but I don't want to place Yasin in a situation where he will have to put up with bully kids being mean to him.
I guess I feel a bit guilty because he doesn't have to go. I'm a SAHM and I just thought it would be nice if I had a bit of quiet time with just me and Imran and Yasin made some new friends and had some new experiences.
The women who is in charge of him said that it would take a few weeks for him to settle in but now I'm questioning wether I'm doing the right thing or not.
For those of you with children in childcare - how long was it before your baby settled in? do they enjoy thier time there?