My friend refers to childminders as "Day Mothers" and that is exactly what Nikki is: a mother to my children when I'm not with them.

Nikki has been caring for my children for the past 5 and a half years and I can honestly say that choosing her was one of the best decisions I made as a parent!

My daughter went to Nikki from the age of 6 months until the week before she started school and still loves to go to Nikki's during the school holidays. She has a very close relationship with Nikki and her two children and it's great to know that she's having fun during the holidays when we can't always spend time together, in fact I think she would rather be there than at home.

Nikki also looks after my son of almost 3 years, who has been going to play at Nikki's since he was very young. He is always so excited to go and play with his friends at Nikki's and loves to tell me about all the fun things he does during the day - every week they go to groups and get out and about as much as the weather permits.

Nikki keeps us up-to-date with our son's development in the form of his beautiful Learning Journey which helps us to understand the stages of his development in line with the EYFS and is a lovely visual record of all the things he has been doing in his preschool years.

Over the years I've come to think of Nikki as not only a valuable asset to my children, but also a friend and someone to whom I can go for advice. She goes above and beyond for all the children in her care I can't recommend her highly enough.

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