As a kid, I remember reading a poem in my English text book, the road not taken. The author had a choice to make, and he found it very hard to pick one of the two roads as he had no idea of which road would be better for him. I find myself in a very similar situation now.
I wish we could see into the future. I wish I could travel on all the roads not taken and see where I would end up. I wish I could see how Shloka would turn out to be if I let her stay with a nanny. I wish I could see the young person Shloka would turn out to be continuing here at Bright horizons!
Spending a week here in this day care, I am an expert now on how day cares work :D There is probably no way to tell if what we are doing now as parents is the best for Shloka. Only time will tell that. Until then, I have to walk in the dark hearing out other parents experiences and hope that this painful transition is the best for her in the long run.
I wish we could see into the future. I wish I could travel on all the roads not taken and see where I would end up. I wish I could see how Shloka would turn out to be if I let her stay with a nanny. I wish I could see the young person Shloka would turn out to be continuing here at Bright horizons!
Spending a week here in this day care, I am an expert now on how day cares work :D There is probably no way to tell if what we are doing now as parents is the best for Shloka. Only time will tell that. Until then, I have to walk in the dark hearing out other parents experiences and hope that this painful transition is the best for her in the long run.
This is definitely just the beginning of numerous choices we need to make for Shloka. I hope we make the most well-informed decisions for her, that also help in nurturing her personality. Parenting is tough, but there is always an unexpected reward - Shloka taking the bottle from a stranger just when I almost gave up!
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