My daughter Emily was happy to be in Anna's childminding care for over 9 months and we were very sad to find out we need to find a new childminder due to her maternity leave. Now after some time, having my daughter in the care of a different childminder, I realised even more how great was Anna's compared with the new one. We had a strong bond, and my daughter loved Anna from our first visit, this being her first time in someone else care apart from her parents. I would give Anna an outstanding rating for the services she provided to my daughter on the basis of: kindness, well manners and respectful in speech, care, passion and patience in explaining new things related to day by day use of the environment around my child, stimulating the child to be active and playful and learn new tasks, keeping her home safe and very clean, providing organic healthy snacks, very good filing system to record child development. She likes to search for new things to be first to know about new trends in the childminding and child development. We are still in touch with Anna visiting her when appropriate to both of us, and we hope to maintain this happy relationship. My daughter misses the time she had at her place, playing with her son, and even now she is more interested to see Anna's new baby growing. We will always remember her as our first and the best childminder.
Anna has a wide range of toys for different age groups, stimulating the child development, she knows to make the day interesting having many activities during the session , she has soft toys for youngers kids and always teaches to older kids to be careful around them and help the little ones to play.
Anna kept me informed on daily basis of what they did for the day and emailed me photographs weekly to show my daughter's progress.
Anna is vegetarian and puts great interest and care in the quality of the food ingredients and meals for her family but also for the children in her care.
She is great in knowing how to temper a child and with a soft voice and lowering at their level she speaks to the children explaining them the situation and giving them reasonable solutions with two options to choose from. All the children learnt very quick, to be responsible and respect each other, wait for their turn, learn to share. I didn't see any aggressive behaviour or tantrums from children in her care for the entire of our time at her care. Children where very happy and with an outstanding behaviour in her care.
She didn't have any sick day off, or to cancel our sessions at short notice, which makes her a very reliable childminder in my opinion. She is working hard and will de her best to put her client's interest first.
All the kids were very happy with Anna and many missed her when they needed to move to a different childminder. My daughter had grown to become a very confident little girl with a kind behaviour and great understanding of the world around her. Even we are not in Anna's care for over 9 months, my daughter Emily memory about her friends from Anna is as fresh as it just happened yesterday. My daughter never cried while in Anna's care and she was so excited in the mornings she had to come to her for the full day care session. We are talking on weekly basis about Anna and always will try to make time to see her and her own children. Anna and her sons will always be my daughter's first best friends.

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