What can I say about Teddy Kids.... The first time I walked into one of their creche\'s in Leiden I was heavily pregnant with my twin girls. Conscious of the unknown and suspicious of the new, I was warmly welcomed, Informed in detail and re-assured with facts and that this is the best place for my kids- what more would a mother want? I had visited and assessed all options available to parents in the Netherlands, ranging from childminders (Gastouders or Oppasmoeders) to nannies and au pairs and I found that Teddy Kids combined the safe and secure child facilities my kids would need in their first months of their life with the creative pay, all-round activity curriculum and multilingual exposure that would set the foundations for their first years at school (which-ever school we chose to send them to). It was an immediate \'yes\' for me. My little angels joined the Teddy Kids family when they were only 4 months old, as I had to go back to working full time. They are now two little 3,5 year-old devils approaching the day when they will say \'goodbye\' to their Day Care friends and move to their first school experience at the American School in the Hague. I saw them being taken care of by the beautiful ladies at Teddy Kids when they were not yet able to speak, I saw them learning how to play, how to respect their piers, I saw them learning how to hold a spoon and how to sit around the table and produce small pieces of art under the guidance of their teachers. I saw them running with bright smiles on their faces when I dropped them off at Teddy Kids in the morning and I have heard them telling me that they want Tess from Teddy Kids to be their mom. It is not easy for a full-time working mom to leave her kids at day-care and feel good about it. It will never be, as this \'mother\'s guilt\' is always there to keep us company. But I could have never found a better place, a better group of people (and I am also talking about the very kind and at the same time very professionally-minded family owning and running Teddy Kids), to trust with the care of my kids. I am confident about that and that puts my mind at ease:-) What will I always remember from Teddy Kids: Being a tri-lingual family (IT-GR-EN), we were reluctant to expose the girls to Dutch. As a result, I had kindly asked the Teddy Kids ladies to speak to my girls in English. But as kids are sponges and noone can really control what language the other kids will use when communicating with mine, I was faced with the incredible reality of having quadri-lingual kids today, whose first words where "kijk\' and \'waar ben je now\'- the latter sounded exactly like \'va bene now\', to my husband\'s ears but his happiness for Italian to be the first words uttered by the girls was short-lived, ha,ha! What I take away when my kids leave Teddy kids by the end of this summer in order to start school: two very-very-very happy kids and I am so thank full for that!! They know how to laugh with their heart, how to run and play with no fear, how to enjoy even the rainy weather and how to treat their mates with respect. How to stand up for themselves (\'stop\' was taught to them by the Teddy Kids ladies as a very important prerogative in their interaction with others as soon as they started speaking!) and how to give and share are only some of the principles learned at the creche. Every mother\'s dream. As a father that had the chance to accompany his two little princess to the daycare as from when they were infants to the present day (when they behave and act as little 3,5 years old happy devils), I can confirm all the above plus, I can add that the teachers at Teddy-kids were very helpful guiding me as parent through the challenges of fatherhood, and specially the one of twins-fatherhood! Johanna & Salvo
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