Nursery Dilemma

Mommy and Papa were in a great dilemma over which nursery to send you to for a while now. All these while we have been sending you to A*C Nursery. However, sometime in March your nursery moved to a new building which is further away from our office. Frankly, we thing that it was a good move by the nursery because they move to bigger house, with land for you to run around and plants for you to water. And you have a new room with your own wardrobe. The only worry is the distance and the extra time on the road. To make things worse, Mommy and Papa have to move office to a new office which is still close to the old nursery location but not to the new one.

Your nursery

One good thing, our new office has a nursery in the same building! Even the fees is cheaper by a few hundred ringgit a month. Wihuu. So we went to visit the nursery and we like what we saw, the condition and the teachers. So, we registered you.

Finally, came the day when our office have to move, two months behind schedule. We brought you to the new nursery for trial period. For the first two sessions, which were two hours each, we were required to accompany you at the nursery. So, during this time, we get to observe the activities and the other children. Everything seems great and you seemed to like the place but, we noticed that your peer group is a bit too quiet and it bothered us. We are used to seeing your friends in your existing nursery and how bubbly they were and somehow we think that is why you are so expressive yourself. We can't help thinking what was wrong with your new peer group.

You and new teacher at your almost new nursery.

After talking to other colleagues, we finally discovered why they don't speak as much as you do, they can't converse yet! At 1.5 years, you can already ask questions and know all the animal names and their sounds, name the fruits.. or in other words, have a large vocabulary. Mommy and Papa took it for granted and assume everyone your age can do the same. Even the teachers at your new nursery thought you were at least 2 years old already.

Then came the worry. With your existing playgroup, you are one of the youngest and have a lot to learn from them. That is probably one of the contributing factor why you are quite advanced compared to your peers. Whereas the new play group, most of them are your age and you will probably have to do the teaching.

So, after weeks of thinking and debating over our convenience and your personal development, we have decided that you should come first. We believe, you are better off at the existing nursery, for now and therefore, we don't mind the extra effort to send you to the further nursery. After all, you looked so happy in the existing nursery that we do not want to disturb that. Also, we really love Teacher Mala and we know you love her lots too. It is undeniable that she is one of the reason why we chose to let you stay at A*C Nursery. We have faith in her experience and she is just so motherly.

Another factor is because we are most likely to move house in the very near future that we think it will be too much change for you, changing nursery and moving house within a couple of months.

At least that is our decision for the next four months (your existing nursery requires commitment per term which is four months :)). Hopefully, it is the right one. Perhaps when you are bigger and can tell us which nursery you prefer to go to and why, we will reconsider the other nursery. Either that or until we cannot stand the traffic to get to your nursery especially from our new house. hahaha.

Love you lots, Sarah. Know that we are willing to sacrifice anything for you darling.