Basia looked after our son from the age of 1 for a year, until we moved away from Acton and I can honestly say I don’t know what we would have done without her. As first time parents her calm, reassuring manner, combined with common sense and a huge dose of fun was absolutely invaluable. She helped us through the difficult settling in period at the beginning (hard for both us and him as a Covid lockdown baby) and guided us through helping his development, dealing with challenges such as eating, sleeping and tantrums and I genuinely felt he had fun, was looked after well and really well fed with her. It wasn’t long before he was exited to see her at drop off in the mornings.
I was so nervous about starting him in childcare when I went back to work and spoke to a couple of parents whose children she looked after. One of them told me that one of the special things about Basia is that when she takes the children to the playground you can tell she genuinely enjoys playing with them and encouraging them. I found this to be true and 6 months after moving away we all still miss her.
She is a special person and an amazing childminder, can’t recommend highly enough.

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