Daycare
My life has definitely changed, even more so than the wildest of my imaginations could envisage, when I became a mother. My life now evolve around this little miracle. When you get a pet it’s a part of your life, when you have a child it IS your life. A child is not an addition to your life, a child is a change of life as you know it.
The first year of a child’s life, as first time parents, is really all about getting into the role of parenting. Learning, adapting, realizing, changing.
My son is 10 going on 11 months and the faze that we are in now is the one where he practice to be able to walk by himself and he wants to speak and mimics words.
We went to visit a daycare center just a couple of days ago which is located in the area where we are looking for apartment to buy. And I’m realizing that no matter how great a daycare center appear to be I am going to experience unease about this whole thing of leaving my child in the care of people I don’t know. I consider myself to be so lucky about the fact that I gave birth at a point in my life when I have the possibility to care for my child instead of using full-time daycare. I definitely realize the importance that the aspects of daycare has for these young children and no way am I going to deny him the process of development that the opportunity of daycare present. I can’t predict what will happen but his interest has a deciding role as do my judgement regarding what I experience. The ideal is to find a solution that best benefits him. Mi amor.
I had planned to place him at daycare at the age of 1 and a half years but noticing the degree of his will to interact with other children has made me consider and most possibly place him as soon as he knows how to walk. We are definetly going to go slow, I am going to need to feel secure about leaving him out of my care/sight.
