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Daycare is not only great fun for the kids - playing with their peers is fun - it's also fantastic for their development. We have an excellent daycare. My daug

Daycare is not only great fun for the kids - playing with their peers is fun - it's also fantastic for their development. We have an excellent daycare. My daughter spends three days a week crafting, playing outside with kids, baking, doing make-up etc. The carers have skills that I don't have and my kids get to enjoy that. We both work four days a week so the kids get lots of parent time and we get a bit of a rest from them.

meheleventyone 7y ago
I’m fortunate enough to live in Iceland so both my kids got a place in a state kindergarten (leikskoli) from 18 months. Having seen the care and attention they pay to the development of kids I honestly don’t know why this isn’t more common outside of Nordic countries. Particularly with modern societal expectations on parents and the future of society being entirely dependent on the effort it put into its future citizens.
- lb1lf 7y ago
  Being Norwegian, I've found that quite a few Icelandic words are just brilliantly descriptive. I just learned another one; leikskoli. Beats our 'barnehage' for kindergarten, that's for sure!
  - meheleventyone 7y ago
    Interestingly we’d call it playschool in the UK as well. Kindergarten in the English context seems way more of a US thing.
  - rlonn 7y ago
    Almost the same in swedish: lekskola (or "lekis") and dagskola ("dagis") but they have now been replaced by the more pretentious "förskola" as we like to be pretentious over here. "barnhage" is a small cage you put toddlers in so they can't escape - makes sense you guys use that word for kindergarten ;)
    - lb1lf 7y ago
      Ooh, ze plot thickens. We call that little cage a 'lekegrind'. Førskole is a bridge between kindergarten and primary school - typically a few hours a week for the last few months in kindergarten. We've been pretentious at least since I attended førskole some 35 years ago! Hah! :)

meheleventyone 7y ago

I’m fortunate enough to live in Iceland so both my kids got a place in a state kindergarten (leikskoli) from 18 months. Having seen the care and attention they pay to the development of kids I honestly don’t know why this isn’t more common outside of Nordic countries. Particularly with modern societal expectations on parents and the future of society being entirely dependent on the effort it put into its future citizens.

lb1lf 7y ago
Being Norwegian, I've found that quite a few Icelandic words are just brilliantly descriptive. I just learned another one; leikskoli. Beats our 'barnehage' for kindergarten, that's for sure!
- meheleventyone 7y ago
  Interestingly we’d call it playschool in the UK as well. Kindergarten in the English context seems way more of a US thing.
- rlonn 7y ago
  Almost the same in swedish: lekskola (or "lekis") and dagskola ("dagis") but they have now been replaced by the more pretentious "förskola" as we like to be pretentious over here. "barnhage" is a small cage you put toddlers in so they can't escape - makes sense you guys use that word for kindergarten ;)
  - lb1lf 7y ago
    Ooh, ze plot thickens. We call that little cage a 'lekegrind'. Førskole is a bridge between kindergarten and primary school - typically a few hours a week for the last few months in kindergarten. We've been pretentious at least since I attended førskole some 35 years ago! Hah! :)