Choosing the Best Preschool and Building a Great Relationship

Many parents agree that finding the right child care provider can be a nerve-wracking and lengthy process. Even when you’ve found the right provider, it can still be difficult to leave your child in someone else’s care. But forming a good relationship with your child’s teachers and child care team can help bring you peace of mind and even improve your child’s learning experience. Children benefit from consistent, safe and nurturing environments.

Providers should also make every effort to partner with parents to extend and reinforce learning at home through daily updates, weekly classroom schedules, at-home resources and more. This ultimately helps foster mutual respect and open communication between home and school. The teachers should work closely with parents to support children’s development and learning. However, building trusted relationships still requires some effort from all involved. To build and maintain a great partnership with your family’s child care provider or your child’s teacher, consider the following:

Do your homework. To help find the right provider for your family, spend time researching different options and considering factors that are important to you, like school safety and early learning approach. Choosing a provider you feel good about and trust will bring you peace of mind, and a great parent-teacher relationship will likely form more naturally.

Make communication a priority. It’s important to invest in your relationship with your child care provider as they help your child learn and grow. Talk regularly with your child’s teacher to provide helpful information about your child, ask what you can do at home to support your child’s development and share your appreciation for what’s going well in the classroom. Most schools offer electronic parent communications systems that offer a daily report about their child’s school day, photos from the classroom, resources to use at home and reminders about upcoming activities.

Address concerns immediately. If you have any questions or concerns about your child’s care, discuss them with the teacher or school director as soon as possible. If there is a problem, it can’t be resolved unless someone knows about it, and providers would prefer to know if something upsets you before it becomes a bigger issue. By sharing your concerns when they arise, you can work together to find a solution.

Amy Roper is the Franchise Owner of multiple Primrose Schools is the North Atlanta area. She is the mother of three children, all of whom attended Primrose. Primrose Schools is the Leader in Early Education and Care. For more information visit www.primrosekennesawnorth.com.

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