Daycare in Kirland
Ever since Julian was a year old he’s been attending daycare in downtown Kirkland.
For the most part this has been a wonderful experience - he’s gone from the baby room to the toddler room to the infant room. All his teachers have been great, and I have nothing but great things to say about them.
I believe that it was there that he actually walked for the first time, before we witnessed it for the first time - the morning after he walked and Nabila and I were in tears I told his teachers that about it, only to be greeted with a wry smile :-)
But, at the end of the day it’s a business and they have quotas to fill - they need to bring as many children in as possible and structure their classrooms to accommodate them.
But daycare ain’t like getting your car serviced.
There are emotional issues at play here.
Our kid has been there for almost two years, and has grown there. I have the utmost respect for their program and what they have given us, but I will not have my kid pushed out of the classroom he deserves to be in because getting another customer requires denying him that place.
I’m a parent and damn it, we were there first :-) Hmm, things get a little irrational when your boy is being stiffed.
Anyhow, time to have a discussion with the director… I’ll let you know how that pans out.
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Hi Steve -- My husband just got an offer from Google Kirkland and the more we look into it the more probable it seems we'll move there. We have a 6.5-month-old baby. Can you give me any daycare advice for the area? (I'll keep my old job, but will telecommute and will either use a daycare center or hire help at home. Need more info to decide. Our baby loves the social interaction at her daycare now and I'd like her to be able to smoothly transition into preschool, so a center seems to be the likelier decision.) Best to you, Jeanette (jburries@yahoo.com... sorry, I just never managed to transition over to my gmail account. ;) )
I *highly* recommend the Bright Horizons (Learning Garden) in Kirkland (it's right around the corner from Google Kirkland). Our kids have been there since they were 12 months old.
The baby room is superb and staffed by very caring people.
They came highly recommended to us and we didn't really look elsewhere. I've been very happy with them (modulo a few niggles like the one above - now happily resolved).
Let me know who you get on, and have your husband say hi to me when you guys get here :-)