Helen has been looking after our son for over 6-months (and will continue to do so until he goes to preschool in 16-months time). Although I loathe to leave him (with anybody) whilst working, I have never had a single doubt that Helen would look after him with the utmost care. Not only does Helen give up to date reports on his learning development, feeding, sleep pattern, nappy changing & needs etc, she takes an active interest in him and genuinely cares. She also expands his learning after organised group activities at her home, i.e. if his morning group was learning about dinosaurs, she would then on return to her home encourage my son to play with toy dinosaurs along with a tv documentary on them. When I drop my son off, he is so keen to start the day with her, he literally closes the door on me and runs in to her home! I cannot recommend Helen highly enough and feel so very lucky to find a 'second Mum' to look after my son.

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