After check-in, we’ll welcome you and your child at the Schäfli Daycare. Our host team will be happy to show you the way to the daycare room. Just stop by the Welcome Desk. Our staff members are identified by name tags. You’ll drop off your child at the counter. You can hang your child’s jacket and leave their shoes at the coat rack outside the daycare room. It’s a good idea to put extra socks or something similar on your child. Please avoid bringing your own toys if possible, as they always end up getting lost and are often hard to find. Only bring a stuffed animal or pacifier if necessary, and always label them with your child’s name so they don’t get lost and can be returned home. We do not change children’s diapers. If your child is wearing diapers thatneed tobe changed during the service, we will notify you via the parent paging system.Your child’s number willthenappear in the worship hall and in the lounge on the middle floor. You can change your child’s diaperinthe restrooms on the middle floor, right next to the baby care room. Please let us know if your child does not wear diapers and you would like us to take them to the restroom. Your child will be accompanied to the restroom by female staff members. If only male staff members are present, we will call you via the parent pager.Alternatively, you may give us your explicit permission for male staff members to accompany the children to the restroom.In this case, the women’s restroom will always be used. Staff will only assist with clothing, cleaning, or sitting on the toilet when absolutely necessary, and the doors will remain open. We provide the children with a small snack (apples, cookies, and water). Please do not send your child with their own snack. Please let us know about any special needs that are important for your child’s care (e.g., allergies, medications, etc.). Ifyou’d like to stay with your child, you can borrow headphones at the entrance to the main hall to listen to the sermon from the childcare area.
Our age-appropriate lessons include the following:
God is the Creator; He made everything, and everything He makes is good! (Water, snow, day and night, the sun, animals, people, etc.).God made you, planned, and made you unique (bunconditional acceptance, God’s love, and self-esteem are strengthened).The Word of God is true: God speaks to us through His Word (Bibles with Treasure Chests).Being shaped by hearing the Word of God (what you hear first becomes ingrained as truth!).We engage all the senses:sight(pictures, food, objects, live animals, etc.), hearing (music, sounds, etc.), taste(food, juices),touch (feeling, objects), andsmell ( various scents).Thanksgiving, prayer, and praise.After their birthday, your child will move from the toddler service to the next age group (Bär). Please be sure to let us know at the Welcome Desk. Thank you very much!
We would be happy if you could pick up your child from us after the adult service. This gives us the opportunity to get to know you as well.
Daysi Placencio, Team Leader at Schäfli After-School Care Center