I am in NZ too. Is it a state kindy or a day care centre type place? Does she actually need to go (as in are you exhausted, sick or at work?). I went back to work when my kids were 6 months and they attended various combinations of barnadoes home care, day care and kindy. I did look at Montessori but the ones in my city are all owned/run by the same person and they only had full time enrolment - it seemed awfully restrictive to me, no more than so many kids working together, work by yourself on your own mat, do the same thing exactly the same way as taught for each work. Compared with this at the day care my eldest and a friend spent the afternoon propping a ladder down the bank and sliding down it in half a mussel float. You can and will teach academics better than any preschool teacher and in a shorter time. Find somewhere fun and only send her as much as you have to or she wants to.
Last edited by puffin; 06/08/14 02:18 AM.
