Emma has been my daughter’s childminder for 18 months. I felt very guilty about putting my daughter in childcare 5 days a week as I work full time. Emma was incredibly supportive for me and my daughter when she started and settled and very quickly created a special bond with her.
How lucky we are to have found Emma and that she had space.
Every day my daughter comes home saying Emma Tori and Lex are the best (Emma’s assistants).
She encourages the children’s imaginations and takes interest in what they are interested in. Her setting is very much child led, one child could mention a ship and an hour later the children have learnt about boats and the ocean, built a ship and sailed across the sea to a far away land.
Each child is treated as an individual and shown the same care, attention and love. Emma massively encourages friendships and bonds between the children which at this age is not an easy feet.
Emma loves to take the children out to explore the world. At least once a week they visit parks to climb and risk take or build dens in the woods. On special occasions or during the holidays with the bigger kids they visit the farm or castles or even Emma’s husband’s work. He takes them on tractor rides and they help him drive the diggers.
I sometimes struggle to know what to feed her in the evening as she has eaten so well during the day. Unless it is a very hot day or they have had a picnic in the park she will have a hot meal for lunch and then a filling yummy snack in the afternoon. The children are shown how food grows in Emma’s garden and they encouraged often to try new foods.
My daughter has been struggling with a leg problem for the past 6 months, Emma has been nothing short of amazing. Her support for us as a family has gone above and beyond what we expected from a childcare provider. She encourages her to do things she is scared of or says she can’t, she really is her biggest cheerleader. She helps with exercises and the rehab she needs to do to make her leg better. We get extra updates if we are worried or she is having a bad day which massively puts our minds at ease.
The amount of time Emma spends in the evenings and weekends when she doesn’t have the children planning activities, graduation parties or writing reports for the parents is another example of how she goes above and beyond.
Emma literally is the best and we would be lost without her and Tori and Lex.

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