Daycare

My sons’ childcare centre is our other home

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Spinoff Parents columnist Angela Cuming writes about what her children’s early childhood education centre means to her and her whānau. From the outside, there’s not much to give it away. An old two-storey villa, black asphalt driveway, a faded wooden fence just tall enough to peep over. But push open the heavy front door and … Read more

I send my kid to the cold equivalent of a prison-yard most days and I’m fine with it

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As if parents of pre-schoolers didn’t have enough to deal with, a searing column on Monday informed them that the daycares they sent their kids to were kiddie prisons. Duncan Greive examines this appalling situation. Monday’s Herald brought worse news than usual for parents of young children. Most were likely awoken earlier than they’d have … Read more