Today we’ve made a faithful decision to enroll Yana in Day-care.

Normally when we enroll Yana on anything, classes, short-courses and what not, we are always excited and anxious. Today we are just anxious, in fact a little bit of remorse. Did we jump the gun to soon?

The main reason we enrolled her is that we feel if she is not getting the proper social interaction she needs from kids of the same age as her. Granted that I work from home but my job envolves a lot of troubleshooting, phone calls and chats and most often than not she ends-up just watching movies all day either at the sala or at my office. Only when I’m free are we able to kengkoy around.

But then a friend of hours who also happen to have his daughter enrolled at the same facility mentioned that if they had a chance they would probably take back their daughter. Kaya ayon medyo nag-second thoughts kami. Not that the facility is inadequate is just that the whole idea of day-caring parang hindi normal. Foremost is the food, every child gets the same set of foods, compare that to being at home, Yana can eat whatever she likes (at least whatever she sees in the pantry hahahaha). Then you have the attention, in Day-care you may have teachers but their attention is not completely focused to your child coz they have to watch a bunch of other kids as well, while at home of the other hand I can focus on her (ok if I am hard at work I leave her infront my other monitor watching the Littler Mermaid or Spongebob squarepants).

I can’t explain my apprehension, maybe I’m just feeling guilty. But then if I don’t work mahihirapan si Maan. If she stops working mahihirapan naman ako lalo na’t napaka-mahal ng insurance coverages ngayon. I guess it’s a balancing act.

We’re waiting for the montessori school to open nagpa-waiting list na kami, the moment it does open lipat kaagad si Yana at least yon pre-school hindi day care so they have a proper curriculum although it means mas mahal mas magastos.

Sometimes I can’t help but chuckle, I imagine when I was yana’s age and may parents were worrying the same, kasi nun nasa Zambia kami mga kaklase ko mga puti tapos ako di nag-e-english hahaha.

Being a parent is hard but then if there are no hardships you wont’ be able to appreciate the good things that come with parenting.