All posts by Eesha

Transition

Starting daycare at three: a settling plan that respects the child’s pace

What to do before day one, a typical gradual-entry ladder, how to handle the goodbye, what educators do, what pickup looks like, and when to talk to us.

Preschool

Montessori-inspired vs traditional daycare: what actually changes in a child’s day

What “Montessori-inspired” should mean, five moments in the day where it differs from a traditional daycare room, and a plain list of what we do and do not do.

Childcare

Preschool inside full-day care: how one room and one drop-off works, and why the group stays at sixteen

How a 90-minute preschool block sits inside a full day of care, what it contains, what a sixteen-child cap changes in practice, and the trade-offs stated plainly.