Sandrine took care of my now just over 2yr old son for about 1.5 yrs and was fine in the beginning and our son was settled there hence we continued with her. I had a few concerns recently for last few months since her ofsted inspection in June - when she stopped/suddenly reduced doing activities with toddlers and parent reports (may be because she wasn’t doing much). It was more of a place where kids pass time in the garden rather than learning through activities. Which I mentioned to her in passing as didn’t want to annoy her as she isn’t very good with taking feedback - atleast not in my experience. But I still kept my son there as he was settled there and I was worried he won’t adjust into a new place as he was going through a ‘Stranger suspicion’ phase which she told me she just ignores him when he is scared of things rather than deal with it in a professional way!!
But I finally decided to pull the plug when one evening I went to pick up my son and I noticed ‘GAME OF THRONES’ on her TV SCREEN which kids have access to and most of the evenings are watching tV when you go pick them up!!! This just shook me as I would never watch that show while my son was awake. I decided to take him out 2 days later with immediate effect!!!
I feel so sorry for my son and bad that I had him go to her where he was probably not cared for in the way a parent expects and a child deserves for all that time.
She doesn’t even have curtesy to reply to emails - About deposit refund even through she is the one at mistake!!!
I was so scared of taking my son to another setting thinking he might not adjust and to my surprise he hasn’t even asked once for Sandrine. And while he used to cry to go to Sandrine in mornings which I thought was normal - he happily runs into new Childminder’s settings and I am so happy for him and the standard of care he is getting with new childminder.
I would steer away from Sandrine unless you have absolutely no other option at all.

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