Finding the Right Daycare That Resonates With Your Ideologies

While hunting for a Williamsburg-based daycare with one of my friends, I realized how important it is to find the right daycare for a child.

If you are looking for a daycare, it means that either you are working or you have other familial responsibilities because of which you are unable to care for your kid and hence require the assistance of a daycare. The caregivers and instructors at the daycare will do your job of looking after your kid while you are away.

As your child will be spending a major portion of his/her day at the daycare, it is all the more important for you to not leave any stone unturned while choosing a daycare for your kid. 

• Firstly, you need to make a list of all your priorities (preferably on a sheet of paper) and arrange your priorities in decreasing order of importance.
• In the next step, you need to visualize the interests and needs of your child and look for any clash of interest between your priorities and your child’s needs.
• Following this, you need to start your search for the best daycare that accommodates many of your priorities and at the same time fortifies your child’s interests too. 
• Work your way from the top of your priorities list and jot down your options in each category. 
• From the list, strike out the unviable options. 
• It is always best to look for a daycare within or in the vicinity of one’s neighborhood. If you live in Williamsburg, it makes sense for you to look for a Williamsburg-based daycare.
• Post the search, you need to visit the daycare shortlisted by you in the previous step.  
• While you visit these daycare, make sure to take a tour of the campus and interact with the staff and parents of the enrolled kids. A physical visit can be greatly beneficial as it gives you a real picture of the goings-on at the daycare. 

These pointers helped me and my friend find the right daycare for my friend’s child. As she was highly particular about not wasting time and energy on travelling, it was quite easy for us find a suitable daycare within Williamsburg which eventually turned out to be little Dorothy’s favorite place after the zoo. 

Every Parent has Superhero Powers

Every holiday season, parents spend quality time finding and purchasing their kid’s favorite superhero costumes. Superman, batman, Flash, Hulk – kids love bouncing up and down in their superhero attire and fighting fictitious bad guys. Running after them, parents indulge in their kids’ imaginary mission to protect the world from the evil powers. For kids, their parents are no less than superheroes and child care center Williamsburg Northside Daycare has come up with an intriguing idea to lead their daycare toddlers discover the superhero qualities which their parents possess.

What could be more fascinating than watching these little fighters who are always charged up to battle off the villains (imaginary) from their secret space, teaming up with their parents who are also clad up in superheroes costumes(strictly assigned by their children)?

Here is what the educators of Williamsburg Northside Daycare have to say about the special powers owned by every parent and that every kid should acknowledge - 

Extraordinary strength, stamina and endurance

Like Ironman, Dr. Jean Grey in X-men, The Beast, parents also have limitless strength and stamina, otherwise, who else can run after bouncing bundles of energy whole day across the shopping mall, park, grandpa’s place and of course, at home. Normally what should be a fun dinner outing and shopping spree, we can spot a dad or a mom walking out from such places carrying all the bags over one shoulder and their adorable troublemakers on the other. These endless tales goes on till kids go to bed and after they wake up next day. Spending all day on feet cleaning and taking care of kids is certainly what only superheroes can do.

Sharp, flexible and quick reflexes

Superheroes may take a break in a while but parents have to stay alert and attentive, even in their dreams, you never know when the unpredictable mess knocks in. God has gifted parents with this special superhuman reflexes because of which they can respond to every nitty change or diversion in what otherwise goes usual. If kids are cycling, parents will know a moment before when they are about to bump into a car, so they jump in to catch them. It won’t be a surprise if they inhibited the fastest runner on the earth badge before ‘Flash’ (parents have to chase their kids to feed them or send them to daycare.)

Sensing what can’t be seen or heard

Well not only Superman has X-ray machine fitted in his eyes, parents can foresee every little mess or trouble that their kid might bring along even if it has slightest of the possibility. They can hear the sound of their glass vase crashing the floor before it actually happens. Isn’t it cool?

Sliding and jumping over the Lego blocks

Spiderman definitely has an advantage here- he doesn’t have to touch the ground while swinging over from one place to other.  But parents are far braver and risk takers for they have to jump over the broken pieces of their favorite antique pieces, crockery, toys, morning porridge and mashed sweet potatoes littered across the house floors. They sometimes have a tough time in bathrooms too while giving their kids an emergency bath because they can’t predict when they can slip over the soap cake (that accidently slipped out of toddlers hand).