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Feeling the pressure to send my little one of 15 months to Guarderia. I know it seems that many people here think it is the best thing to do whether you need to work or not. I could do with the free time to work a little but at the same time could try and avoid its as I am still not comfortable with the idea for a really young baby. Does anyone else have a viewpoint on this and why it is so common to do this in Spain? Has anyone got some good or (bad!) opinions about guaderias that they can share with me.

Thanks a lot

Hi

If you´d asked me this question a couple of months ago I would have responded that I think its not necessarily a bad idea at the right age but you´ve really got to consider what place you send them and how your child will deal with, however I´ve never met any child that hasn´t experienced some form of stress from the so called ´adaptation process´.

I myself was under a certain amount of pressure to put my LO in nursery and although the AP was hard she did settle in eventually and was very happy there for a time. Recently she´s started to have a hard time there and I´m starting to realise that maybe it was a mistake to send her in the first place - I´m now realising that when your child reaches certain stumbling blocks the ´guarderia´ experience mostly (and I know there are some places that are different) can´t provide the support they need - mainly because there isn´t sufficient people on hand to give your child the support they need.

So overall I´d say don´t feel pressured to put your child in - go with your instincts of what you think is best for your child and realise that there may be times that you´re unsure it´s the right thing to do!

I was just told by my doctor that my 20 month old baby should be in a guarderia as she was being too mothered at home!! I guess it takes all sorts...