I couldn't be more grateful that I found Sam on this site when I was gearing up to return to work as a first time mum. She made the transition back to work so smooth and easy and we have loved having her look after both our girls over the last 3 years. Her home is perfect for entertaining little ones, with a massive astroturf garden filled with toys, an outdoor deck with canopy, water table, trucks, slides and more. Indoors, Sam has a play kitchen, tepee, tonnes of toys and books, car seats and high chairs and she lives right next door to a playground and park too! But aside from the wonderful setting, Sam herself is wonderful. She is so calm, warm and reassuring if it is your first time, she devised a brilliant settling plan that put me and both my girls at ease and made the transition as smooth as possible. Although there were the inevitable tears the first 1-2 weeks, honestly after that my kids smiled and skipped in - they both formed such a strong bond with Sam, as it seems all the kids she looks after do as she is so kind, happy, smiling, patient, warm and loving towards them all. Her and her children become a home from home and a second family to both my little girls and we are just so grateful and lucky that we found her 3 years ago. Along the way she has helped us with milestones along the way like potty training, always been happy to work with our routine / nap times, and taking the girls on so many enriching day trips and learning experiences and communicated to us and documented their developments and been happy to provide delicious meals that have accommodated allergies. She really does do it all and is a real life Mary Poppins! Now that we are leaving as girls are going to school, I wanted to leave this review to help point other mums / dads looking for childcare to Sam - as she honestly is the best childminder you could ask for or hope to find! x

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