Karen has been looking after our son for almost a year now. He had just turned one when we sent him to her and I was incredibly nervous about the transition. As a covid baby he had never been left with anyone other than my husband, but Karen’s wonderful home setting, kind maternal manner and approach to childcare left us reassured, she made the transition really easy for me, sending lots of updates and our son has always been happy to be left with Karen, running in every morning without looking back.
Karen puts on an array of different activities every day to keep our son engaged and to support his development, from playgroups, rhyme time, forest school and trips to the park. Our son has so many opportunities to mix and socialise with other children of different ages at the group sessions he attends with Karen but also the balance of a calming home environment and lots of attention from Karen and her wonderful family to flourish and learn. Karen provides many different activities to engage and challenge our son each day, he is often coming home with lovely artwork and even new vocabulary around the different topics they have explored together.
Karen has been so flexible around our changing shifts at work and provides a happy constant for our son, she updates us through the day on his activities and progress.
I could go on and on about the wonderful things Karen has and continues to do for our boy, but the long and short of it is, we could not be more grateful to have found Karen and we truly feel that we could not have found anyone better to look after our son! Thank you Karen :-)

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