Another Nursery question (sorry it's a bit long)

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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.
 
I always believe that children need to be socialising with children. My son has been at Nursery 2 years now (since he was 5 months old) and I have no regrets.

So if you can afford to send him even for half a day a week then I would and see how he gets on he might just suprise you
 
I know every family is different and all children are different, so i won't tell you what i think is good for you. However, i can say that DD has been going to nursery since she turned 1 and loves it. She originally went 2 days a week when i was working and has been going for just 1 day since i started maternity leave. We are having to take her out n a couple of weeks due to financial reasons and i know she will miss it.

She is a very shy child, but i can tell that nursery has done her a whole world of good! They do all sorts of fun stuff there and she gets to interact with other kids. Plus i think it gives her some independence.

It was a very good decision for us to send her to nursery. :)
 
Sending Ellie to nursery at 9 months was the best decision I ever made. She loves it there, they do so much with her that I couldn't do at home, and I get to earn some money for the household. It helps that I really really love the nursery she attends, and trust them 100% and so does she.
 
owen is going to start going to nursery 2 mornings a week when he's 18 months old in november. my mum will look after him the rest of the time as i work full time as a teacher. erin started nursery just before her 3rd birthday and TBH i wish she'd started earlier as she loves it. make sure that the nursery is a good one. we sent dylan to one which wasnt my first choice (first choice was the one erin is in and owen will go to but there was no space) and he loathed it. he was far more shy than erin and owen though. if omar is sociable and likes playing with other kids then i bet he'll love nursery and it will be structured play as opposed to a play area.
 
Omar is a bit older now and he would probably love nursery as he is such a sociable little boy. Also if you are working from home then you do need time to be able to do that. Personally in your situation I would be inclined to put Omar into nursery for part-time hours, that way you can get some work done at home and he will be getting to mix with other kids in a safe environment.
 
zanes just started nursery 2 full days a week and im happy with that. he enjoys the time with his new friends and his counting has already come on leaps and bounds even tho hes only had 3 full days so far.

he also went to nursery for awhile at 8 months old because i was supposed to start working again and he loved it just as much then as he does now
 
Rudi has recently started nursery for 2 mornings a week. He is a very independent and active little boy who needs constant stimulation. From what I have read of Omar in your other posts he would more than likely love the interaction and stimulation that a good nursery can give.
 
I'm putting LO into nursery 2x a week so I can attend a class.

I would give it a try - if you don't like it, you can take him out. Might as well give it a try :)
 
id say definatly do it!!
I felt so guilty about sending Willow but she needed to go, she was getting so bored at home.
Now she gets to do all the things she cant at home and plays with other children and grows a bit of independance from me, not too much tho! :D

Id say try it, if he doesnt like it then stop but it will do you both the world of good!
xxxxx
 
Jaiden LOVES going to the childminder, and even if im off work, i tend to still send him although ill probably pick him up earlier.

Best thing we did, hes learnt so much from other kids.
 
i can only echo everyone else - alex is starting 1 day a week from september and then 3 days from next april.

He is very sociable too and loves being around older kids and other people - i am not enough!!
 
Hi hon. I understand your predicament, I work from home some days if Douglas has to be off nursery or can't go the childminder and, apart from when he's asleep, it's very difficult to get any work done at all! Before I went back to work Douglas went to nursery 2 mornings a week from the age of about 10 months and he absolutely loved it. Now I am working full time he goes 2-3 full days a week and the rest of the time is a combination of days at home with Grandma or Daddy or at a childminder. He adores nursery, and I think he's learning so much from it. They do things that we wouldn't at home, they have a huge range of equipment and toys and the staff are lovely. Douglas gets all excited when we drive into the car park and most nornings he runs off without a backwards glance at me. It's made him much more sociable and confident around other children so it has done him the world of good. Even I was still not working, I think he'd be going 2-3 mornings a week anyway as he likes it so much.

ETA - I actually find when he's at home with me now for a couple of days he gets bored, I'm not enough to keep him entertained whereas nursery do a great job!
 
I'd say definitely do it!

LO started nursery at 11 months and she loves it! She goes 3 mornings a week.

She loves socialising and it really wears her out.
 

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