Day Care Discipline

Dhruva was 5 months old when we put him in daycare. My aunts choice was Rainbow Connection at CARC farm on Cherry lane. So that is what I went with and never regretted it. I was, like every mother, skeptical about putting him in day care since he was only 5 months old. I used to drop him off and sit outside the room and watching him through the glass window. It was a one way see through window and neither the nannies nor the babies cannot see us. Dhruva had two absolutely great nannies taking care of him. Deborah and Sheela. They were like mothers away from his mom. They took such good care of him and I soon started working full-time. He started learning new activities and also started eating well. They trained him very well. There was fixed time for food, play and nap. So he started getting into a routine. This made my life so much easier. He was a very easy baby to manage. He started crossing his milestones with such ease. I believe that his day care imbibed good habits in him from that tender age onwards. He started becoming very independent. He knew that he has to go to day-care everyday in the morning. He never gave us any trouble when we dropped him off in the mornings. He would get very excited when he sees me in the evenings. He ate whatever was given and was a very active baby. He learned to walk, talk and socialize very soon. I attribute his habits to the way that he was taught at the day care. They need constant attention at that age and he was given that to the fullest extent possible. So new moms should check out as many day care centers as possible and go with the ones that satisfy them the most. Its the first step towards teaching them to be independent.I totally understand that any new mom would be under immense pressure and confusion when she needs to drop of her child at the day-care at such a tender age under someone else's supervision. So talk to other parents who take their kids to that day-care. Talk to the management and ask as many questions as possible. Go online and see if there are any reviews about the day-care center.See if you can spend a few days in the day-care and check your baby from time to time. This might relax you a little bit. Make sure that the nannies who will be taking care of your child are experienced, preferably grand-moms. It is usually an added advantage if they are grand-moms since they tend to be experienced and sensitive to the feelings of a new mom. I think I ve covered most of it.
Happy parenting!!