Amie is going to preschool soon. She has been home with us for several months, ever since we moved, so it will be a big change for her (and me). I can’t say she is particularly enthusiastic, but neither is she apprehensive about it, I think. Part of the problem is that she has no …
Category Archives: daycare/preschool
Montessori Preschool
(Maria Montessori) After all the hassle of getting Amie into a preschool in Brookline and putting down our deposit… we’re moving. Luckily the hassle was less in the town we’re moving to, but the downside of that was that the choice was overwhelming! But our favorite was always the Montessori school around the corner, and …
On my time
DH is the one who drops Amie off at daycare in the mornings on his way to work. Every morning I rush him/them. Amie by now knows the mantra: “I need to go to office, Baba needs to go to office, Mama also needs to go to office, in the study!” (This concept, by the …
A Morning at Peets
This morning I told Amie L would come and play with her while Mama also went to office. L iz her favorite assistant at daycare and the only one to have babysat her, once before. She cried for a minute and asked me to stay. I said I could stay a little bit. She asked could …
Unhappy at Daycare?
It took Amie over four months to find happiness at daycare. Even then it took an experiment to make her feel more at ease. The babysitter Two weekends ago, Amie’s Baba and I went to a concert. We had gone out only once since Amie was born, at a time long ago before she tumbled into a long …