Good morning. Today I'd like to speak a little bit about kindergartens and nursery schools. Actually yesterday I had a lesson with one of my regular students and I was thinking … and wondering of opinions of somebody who actually doesn't have children and really have a little to talk about kindergartens. I was surprised. Yeah. Actually I can tell I have my own experience. I put my oldest son who is almost three years old to the nursery school last year in the autumn so he was almost two years old in that time. It was a special nursery school private and they have very good attitude to children there were just a few of them and there were only three teachers and it was very pleasant surrounding for children and I believe that the change from our home to get outside for a little while only without mummy was really good. I think that he made it and that kindergarten or actually nursery school helped us a lot.
I know that is the question if to put actually so little child to a nursery school or kindergarten. Basically, I would tell children are too small but I understand... truly understand people who need to work, of course, to go to work or they could lose it or they need money. That is not fun nowadays really. My case was basically based on the fact that we live here alone and being lonely with a child is not so easy as you can think. And when you have really all the rest of the family away really far away that they can't help you to baby-sit it is better for a child to have a different collective around.
Therefore I decided to put my child … the only child to the nursery school and also because of the fact that I was already pregnant in that time and I wanted him to get used to it. Yeah. And then in the spring when my children were born, the twins, we had to choose a good kindergarten. Actually I would never believe how really responsible this activity can be. I can tell that it is really .. really hard to choose well because everything can seem perfect and everything can suit you. The best choice for us would be surely the kindergarten in our village but it was completely full. There are too many children. So we were thinking about a few kindergartens in the surrounding, in the neighbouring villages, and actually we had two favourite ones where we were accepted. One was a bigger kindergarten I believe they have there even five classes, probably. So, on one hand, you would tell that they can be more specialized for needs of these really small kids. My son is now three years old almost. But on the other hand, when there is only one class and there are probably twenty, twenty-two kids together they can easily learn from the older ones – speaking, their behaviour … children are in this way behaving like a sponge, yeah, – they really take everything from the surrounding. Everything what was a problem at home, there is no problem – eating, sleeping and all these habits. That is really amazing for parents. I believe.
So finally also with our neighbours to put our small children to this smaller kindergarten and you don't know how happy I am for that. Of course, I believe there can be some incident or some conflict. But I can tell that a few days … after a few days my son visited this kindergarten, I went to the other one for some papers, and I saw there really this small class of not even three-year-old kids. And you can't imagine. It was just a group of crying children. Yeah. So I felt horribly just to see them. I was crying also almost. That was really horrible, unimaginable for me and just an imagination my son would be there in the middle crying also... horrible … really spine-chilling. So I am really happy that he is there in this smaller kindergarten because teachers never told that he would cry there – there are only four or five smaller kids and they behave as the older ones do. I believe that was one really good decision. And I hope my son will still like it so much as he does now.