Our daughter has been with Caroline since she was nine months old and she is now nearly 15 months old.

At every drop off she is so happy to see Caroline and the other children (including Caroline's two sons), and at collection she has clearly had a wonderful day with everyone – all smiles and chatting away on our walk home. We've never had any issues with drop off at all, which is partly down to the steady build up of time over the first week or so that Caroline offers and also because Caroline is just so wonderfully kind and caring. When our daughter started, Caroline had two spaces but would not accept another child until she knew our daughter was settled. This meant a lot to us. In the first couple of weeks Caroline took her around in a sling for a few hours a day to allow our daughter to slowly connect and embrace her new surroundings when she needed to feel secure.

Life at Caroline's is similar to life at ours and that was so important to us. Our daughter enjoys plenty of outdoor activities in their wonderful garden as well as local woods, the beach, lakes etc. Caroline builds in a lot of time and provides wonderful resources for the little ones to be creative. They have mornings down at the allotment where they learn about where their nutritious lunch comes from. They have plenty of messy play and I have learnt some great 'not quite as messy' activities from Caroline that we now use at home, much to our daughters delight. There is a fabulous piano which the children are allowed to use, or sometimes they just enjoy a concert from one of Carolines lovely sons who plays brilliantly.

Caroline has great focus on your child's development. We are updated daily via the Tapestry app and also a written daily journal on anything new our daughter is doing and how we can help her develop in other ways. We also use this journal and app to keep Caroline updated – she really cares!

Our daughter has truly come on in leaps and bounds as I am sure a lot of this is down to Caroline and her structured fun-filled days.

My mum was a primary school teacher for her entire working life and is continually amazed by what Caroline does for the children she minds. She says we couldn't have picked better and we agree! If Caroline has a space you should definitely visit and see the magic for yourselves.

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