I have 5 children ages 25,14,11,9 and 6 I also have a stepdaughter, and 2 grandchildren. They are ages 6 and 5. One of my grandchildren was born premature. I do have experience with looking after preemie babies. I am familiar with the delayed developmental skills of a child who has been born prematurely.  

     I used to be a pharmacy technician for  about 14 years. I worked for Walgreens for a little over 6 years.  I also worked for CVS (used to be called Caremark Specialty Pharmacy) for a little over 7 years.  However,  due to the demand of my large family I have decided to stay at home and start up an in-home daycare.

      I am licensed by DCFS, and will require all the documents that they request. I first opened my (licensed)daycare in 2019 in Hanover Park. Then we bought a home on the far west side of Elgin in the school district 301 area. I also have a certificate of business from the city of Elgin. I am required to take my Pediatric First aid/CPR/AED class every 2 years to maintain my license as well as a food handlers certificate, and 15 hours a year of continued education for caregivers.

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                    All though I do love and welcome all ages, I do feel my specialty is infants and babies. After the experience of having so many of my own, I feel very confident taking care of little ones. 

                  Your child will have access to ABC mouse.com. ABC mouse is a learning program. Once the child is enrolled, I can ad your email and you can check their progress.  I will also work with your child with reading, writing, math (using cool math program). I also use flash cards for the alphabet, numbers and shapes. Once your child feels comfortable with a pen/pencil I will be make them a laminated name tag to trace everyday, and we will work on tracing the alphabet and numbers. We will also play games, have free play.  We will walk to the park 1-2 times a day (weather permitting). We try to work on skills with building blocks and play games such as Jinga. We will do arts and crafts.  I do provide breakfast, then a morning snack, lunch and a afternoon snack. If your child is under the age of 1, I do not provide baby food, or formula. I do provide filtered water, bottle warmer, Infant snacks such as teething wafer crackers & biscuits, yogurt melts, etc.

     We are animal lovers.  We have 3 sphynx cats, and a black furry  cat. 

 

 

Please contact me if you have any questions or if you would like to know more!

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