Himani

An amazing caring childminder !

Himani is an amazing childminder and works with wonderful assistants. She has been taking care for nearly 2 years of my 2 daughters since they were respectively 1.5yo and 6month old. They have both thrived at Himani’s. Her house is a very loving and caring environment. They both quickly settled in and are now thriving under her care. They are so happy to go there every day. Himani is very attentive to follow their routine, she enquires about and follows children preferences.
Himani keeps parents updated on how kids are doing using an app. It’s great to get daily pictures on how our little ones are doing and see them active doing a lot of different activities.

But most importantly she deeply cares about our children. She has a very caring behaviour and will always tell us in the evening how the day went, how our children are doing and progressing on different skills, how she is helping them to progress. She will also discuss bad behaviours when she feels she needs to and how we both can together help our children handle them.

The environment is very stimulating. Himani organises a lot of activities, arts and craft, reading time, circle time, a lot of singing and nursery rhymes as well at outdoor play. She even plays the piano! Before covid they regularly went to the library for rhyme times or to the community center for cooking and arts with other kids. Himani has a lot of various play stations to let the kids decide what they want to do.

Himani provides very good quality and healthy meals and snacks. My daughters both very quickly made enormous progress in eating by themselves and eating everything.

We are now moving to the other side of London and the one thing that would have made me stay is Himani. I cannot think of finding a better person to take care of my children!!

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by Marie on 11/05/2021

Awesome childminder

Our daughter stayed with Himani for almost two years from 7-month old and loved it there. She has always been excited and happy to go, and met her first friends. Himani and her team have been amazing in supporting our daughter's development and helping her grow within a kind, caring and safe environment.

I loved the fact that Himani is organising various activities with the children every day - indoors and outdoors - without using any screens (which was very important for me). She is communicating regularly, openly and promptly with parents, providing a summary of the day at pick up time and sending pictures regularly throughout the week.

Himani is very professional and attentive to the development of each child, discussing with parents milestones reached and giving advices. She is also working closely with parents to ensure there is a consistent approach between home and her setting and adapt her approach if needed.

Her hours are very accommodating for working parents and I have greatly appreciated her flexibility, help and support.

I would highly recommend Himani to any parent - I don't think I would have ever found a better and trustworthy childminder to look after our first daughter and it's heart-breaking to leaving her as our daughter is growing and is moving to the next chapter.

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by JulienL on 05/09/2020

Amazing childminder

Our son stayed with Himani from 9 months until he was 2 years old and had an amazing time. It was hard to leave, knowing how well he was taken care of and how happy he was there.

Himani is very professional, caring, organised and well qualified. She is very good at updating parents, communicates very promptly and is always transparent about what happens through the day. She has a very sensible approach to looking after babies and toddlers, while open to flexing her style based on parents’ preferences. Her hours are very accommodative, she is very reliable and always tries to be helpful. She will spend time with parents discussing the day and regularly share photos of activities. She has a great programme of indoor and outdoor activities. She and her assistants take kids out for walks in the parks, got to playgrounds, city farms, music and play sessions at the community library, picnics in the summer and even took everyone to the RAF museum once. At her house there are always plenty of activities going on and Himani keeps a development book for every child.

Her assistants Vasee and Minakshi are great too, very friendly, professional and caring. Together with Himani they form a great team!

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by Parent on 19/01/2020

10 stars for Himani and her team <3

My son started at Himanis with 7 months and loved it from the early beginning on. Himani is a wonderful loving childminder, I think the best in whole London town :).
Very sadly we have to say goodbye after almost a year, as we are moving back to Germany. My son found his very first friends at her place and it is so sad that we won't see them again. She took so good care of us and especially when our second son arrived this summer. We don't have family here in London but Himani and her whole team helped us through those crazy months.
I just can say that I highly recommend her, she loves her job and all her children from heart.

THANK YOU <3

PS: She is super easy going, flexible and just perfect :)

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by Parent on 05/10/2018

Wonderful, kind and caring child minder

Himani is a wonderful child minder.
She has been taking care of my son since he was 6 months old and it's been an absolute pleasure to see how him settle in and grow attached to Himani. Although he generally has a hard time being away from me, he always smiles when we arrive in Himani's home and when he sees her.
In addition to being patient and caring with the children, Himani is great with parents and works alongside them. She communicates a lot about what goes on during the day (she even sends pictures quite often!), and provides advice if she is asked.
Her place is really light and clean, and she takes out the children to a lot of activities outside (rhyming, city farm, cooking class, etc.).
Due to the fact that we are relocating to our home country my son will no longer stay with Himani after the summer, and it breaks my heart as he's been so happy there. I really couldn't recommend her enough to prospective parents.

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by Parent on 14/06/2018