September 8, 2000 - Friday
Yesterday afternoon Harry's mother and I met with a new daycare provider: one even more conveniently about halfway between our two workplaces. This morning I brought Harry there and spent about an hour watching how he fit in with the new group. The most striking difference between this place and Harry's current daycare center, in terms of how it might affect Harry, is that there are five other children here rather than the two others that he has been with for the last few weeks. Their ages vary, with the youngest just a couple of weeks older than Harry and two others about 13 months, so he would have older kids to observe and imitate.

Harry, not surprisingly to us, seemed to fit right into the new group, though the distraction of all those other kids undoubtedly didn't hurt in the short time we were there. But, with that initial success, and after twisting our brains and emotions around the issues, Harry's mother and I decided to make the change. When we picked up Harry and gave word to Harry's original provider, there seemed to be little surprise, if even disappointment, though perhaps that was well masked. She seemed to understand quite handily our reaction to Tuesday's events and the resulting actions that we have taken since, and showed no regret. Perhaps, it is for the best. We have had no fault with her care of Harry, but her inflexibility was more than we think we would be comfortable with over the coming couple of years of potential daycare for Harry.


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