Day Cares

It's Maku's 1st day today at the daycare centre, and I'm a bit scared leaving him there for the whole day without me or Nat.

I visited a number of day cares the past weeks, and it was very hard to find a good one – the slots fill up so fast and it takes a year for some centres to have vacancies. At the age of 20 months, Maku speaks very limited words – Daddy, Mama, ish (fish), sh (shoes), nat-nat are some of the words he can say, and it worries us a lot. Although it’s normal for boys to be delayed in speech, our GP suggested that we bring him to a day care at least once or twice a week, so that he may get encouraged to talk and learn to socialize with other children. We enrolled Maku for 1 month, every Tuesday and Friday. Good that they are offering the 1st 2 weeks free, otherwise, it would cost us $640 for those 4 weeks. I just really hope and pray that he will pick up new words and be able to say them.