LOVE My Silver Spring Daycare! (Layhill/Aspen Hill/Glenmont) And it has openings!

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I LOVE my in-home day care provider in Silver Spring. My son has been there since about 6 months for over a year now.

She is absolutely a lovely and kind lady - warm home environment. I think she is very responsible for helping us have just an awesome tot! I kid you not - 90% of the time when I drop him off he runs to her and then (practically) slams the door in my face! LOL! I know that he really loves being with her and that makes me feel good too! I am sure it helps that she has a garage full of toys that she rotates around and has been keeping him quite busy! They spend oodles of time outside and go for a walk every day (unless it is raining/snowing).

And it has been great for him but....he is the only child there! (Another baby is starting to come....) It was great when he was a baby because he got all that special one on one care that really was important to me (the Mom) and I think to his development. She was the one that really made "tummy time" happen! She taught him to kick a ball and get the hang of a pull toy (something that regardless how much I tried he wouldn't do for me!) She and her family came to our holiday party. When I had surgery she made food for us. She has treated us like family.

But now that he is approaching 2 - I need him to get socialization. We have been looking at sending him to preschool part-time and keeping him there part-time. I am just not quite ready to send him into that big world of "school". It breaks my heart to think that I am basically bailing on her. (Literally - I don't know if I can tell her this without crying so I have been putting it off! I am a total wuss!!!! I really do believe she loves my son and I think she is going to be sad too!)

I have every now and then answered postings for people looking for day care. But if you are looking for a perfect daycare place for your child (and yes, she has infant slots because there is one baby there starting but my child will age out of his "infant" slot in August) - please email me and I would love to tell you more and give you her contact info. (It kinda creeps me a little to just post her phone number on here...) Location is in the Layhill subdivision.

Claire
cmezoughem @ gmail.com