Both of our children, our daughter (4) and son (2), spent their pre-school years with Chrissy.

Our daughter arrived at nine months old and as a first time parent both the dad and I really wanted a safe, happy environment for our little one to thrive in. And thrive she did. Chrissy encouraged her in speech and language through lots of song and play. She was a little wobbly on her feet but again Chrissy just encouraged her. Our daughter is now four and thriving. Incredibly verbose for her age and well ahead on maths and writing - a lot of which I put down to Chrissy's attentive care to her interests and her constant speaking and listening and playful fun with her.

Our son started with Chrissy at one and he too has loved it. At first he was less sure of leaving but Chrissy helped him settle very quickly just through making it fun and secure. He loved horses and Chrissy used to send wonderful videos of him getting excited at seeing the horses at St. James' park from Horseguards. He loves cooking (pretend play) and he loved this aspect with Chrissy as well as the social interaction of a few friends. It for sure helped him learn and his speech again is really good. At under two he was speaking short sentences.

Chrissy really does go the extra mile. Working around preferences (we cloth napped our two a lot of the time) and dietary needs. Her communication is excellent and, as others have said, we never felt detached from them as we got regular video and photo updates.

We had to leave London for Yorkshire due to my job otherwise our son would undoubtedly have stayed with Chrissy as we really appreciate all she does and how hard she works to communicate and make the experience of leaving your most precious people with her a positive happy one for everyone.

We always said if we ever had more children we would have wanted Chrissy as our childminder and are very sad to have left the area. I cannot recommend her more highly. We loved our time with Chrissy and feel she is very much part of our extended family.

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