here in the afternoon. Every childs different some benefit from a nursery setting some don't. My DD2 is 28 mths and I have no intention of sending her to nursery till she's at least 3 hth x If you get ahead of yourself, and have a read of some education books - especially thsoe aimed at homeschoolers - you will start to feel less guilty about doing hosuework whilst the kids help you/potter/do their own thing. I used to feel bad about him not doing the same level of "activity" and "stimulation" and whatever they do at nursery, but reading The continuum concept, and various education books put my mind at rest. Its actually good for themt o direct play, and helping with housework is not so terrible if we try to involve them. When we visit the supermarket I try to give my toddler some fun tasks to help me, let him visit the fish [still alive int he tank!] that sort of thing. I met a lady today who homeschools and her trip to the supermarket with 4 kids is a whole Big Outing. They end up with life skills - its not such a bad thing. BTW, I have spent some years studying education, so all of this is very new to me....and totally in contrast to what i studied... With little ones, whilst i would like some nice new art materials, I have noticed that my son is very creative with some scrap paper and his