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A little background about our life here:
Play areas are not for parents & babies/toddlers here, they are more for nannies/maids & kids.
You can find parents with toddlers in toddlers groups but there are also few toddlers who attend with their nannies/house maids.
I love the toddlers groups, but the play areas are not always clean as some of the maids are careless when it comes to heigyne, but Omar likes it there.
He doesnt sleep early & no matter how I tried, he will not sleep before 11 pm-1 am which is exhausting.
Now he found out that we have a play area in the building & he wants to play there almost all day (he found it when we were going downstairs to swim). I dont really like it there but it's full of kids & he likes to go with our housekeeper for 1-2 hrs after breakfast to play. In the evening we take him out to a play area & again, most of the time he goes with the housekeeper.
I used to take him to toddlers group twice a week but all those are too far away from where we stay & during the hot weather, it's so exhausting. I enjoy toddlers groups but they'r not always practical for us.
I didnt want to enroll him in a nursery, but as he's spending most of his day without us & he wants to stay out all day, I was thinking that sending him to a nursery would be better as he will learn something & will be with experts in addition to playing & socializing.
Our housekeeper is leaving on Friday, & we will have a new one after few days, but I wouldnt trust her to take Omar to the play area in the building or the ones in the malls.
The old houskeeper has been with us since I was pregnant, but she didnt start to take some responsibility of Omar until he was around 15-16 months when I started to work from home.
I cant take full responisibility & entertain Omar all day, but I feel guilty if he asks me to come & play with him, & I leave my work to entertain him.
I'm behind with my work, my parents are living with us at the moment but they will be moving out after 1-2 months, so we will be left alone & I dont want Omar to feel bored.
So, my question, if you were against sending your toddlers to a nursery at an early age, would you consider it given the above new circumstances?
The advantages for us are keeping him occupied in the morning & having some sleep structure. It would also give us (DH & me) some alone time in the evenings & we do need some baby free time, as now Omar goes to bed when we do.
Play areas are not for parents & babies/toddlers here, they are more for nannies/maids & kids.
You can find parents with toddlers in toddlers groups but there are also few toddlers who attend with their nannies/house maids.
I love the toddlers groups, but the play areas are not always clean as some of the maids are careless when it comes to heigyne, but Omar likes it there.
He doesnt sleep early & no matter how I tried, he will not sleep before 11 pm-1 am which is exhausting.
Now he found out that we have a play area in the building & he wants to play there almost all day (he found it when we were going downstairs to swim). I dont really like it there but it's full of kids & he likes to go with our housekeeper for 1-2 hrs after breakfast to play. In the evening we take him out to a play area & again, most of the time he goes with the housekeeper.
I used to take him to toddlers group twice a week but all those are too far away from where we stay & during the hot weather, it's so exhausting. I enjoy toddlers groups but they'r not always practical for us.
I didnt want to enroll him in a nursery, but as he's spending most of his day without us & he wants to stay out all day, I was thinking that sending him to a nursery would be better as he will learn something & will be with experts in addition to playing & socializing.
Our housekeeper is leaving on Friday, & we will have a new one after few days, but I wouldnt trust her to take Omar to the play area in the building or the ones in the malls.
The old houskeeper has been with us since I was pregnant, but she didnt start to take some responsibility of Omar until he was around 15-16 months when I started to work from home.
I cant take full responisibility & entertain Omar all day, but I feel guilty if he asks me to come & play with him, & I leave my work to entertain him.
I'm behind with my work, my parents are living with us at the moment but they will be moving out after 1-2 months, so we will be left alone & I dont want Omar to feel bored.
So, my question, if you were against sending your toddlers to a nursery at an early age, would you consider it given the above new circumstances?
The advantages for us are keeping him occupied in the morning & having some sleep structure. It would also give us (DH & me) some alone time in the evenings & we do need some baby free time, as now Omar goes to bed when we do.