Our daughter is 20 months old and has been with Kirsten for 2 days a week, from June 2020 to March 2021. Throughout this time Cambridge has been in and out of lockdown, but Kirsten has remained a constant part of our daughter's life and really reduced the impact on her throughout the pandemic.

Kirsten has provided as much variety as possible in her setting, and puts a huge amount of effort into planning activities which are developmental and fun for the children. She is very trusting and we have felt completely at ease with our daughter in her care, we know she treats the children like her own being kind and caring to them and also starting to teach them basic boundaries and rules around safety etc.

She is incredibly organised, makes everything clear and has a really good system for communication between her and all the parents through her watsap group and Facebook page. she also emails newsletter updates and photos etc. of the children doing activities and lets us know what they have been up to.

she takes them out regularly on walks/exploring and lets them 'be kids' getting mucky and we have really valued that too. we have felt Kirsten has been a huge part in the progress our daughter has made developmentally.

Kirsten has also made an effort to send Arla home with lots of things she's made e.g. mothers day/christmas cards for us and little gifts for special occasions. she has been incredibly generous which is testament to her kind nature, particularly as how good value for money her childminding services are.

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