Indian Day care in LA

Pani Puri · Post by **Pani Puri** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:52 pm

Hi,
Does anybody know a good Indian day care in Los Angeles area?
Please share the info.
Thanks.

M V · Post by **M V** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:53 pm

LOL! You need to be a little more specific than "Los Angeles area"!

I get this image in mind of a hapless harried mom driving baby to a really far daycare thru the maze of LA traffic. :)

Pani Puri · Post by **Pani Puri** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:11 pm

To be more specific, in San fernando valley :)

Mastan Bhai · Post by **Mastan Bhai** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 5:22 am

Just curious, what is "Indian day care"? Indian owned, Indian kids only, or both?

okonomi · Post by **okonomi** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 5:25 am

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Pani Puri · Post by **Pani Puri** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:49 pm

Mastan Bhai;412825Just curious, what is "Indian day care"? Indian owned, Indian kids only, or both?

Indian owned.

bigdreamer · Post by **bigdreamer** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:50 pm

Pani Puri;412725Hi,
Does anybody know a good Indian day care in Los Angeles area?
Please share the info.
Thanks.

Irony is that, we were looking for American style school/daycare with modern facilities for our children in India. We want the kids to not to go thru the traditional/mad rush schooling for our children.

Any specific reason you were looking for Indian day care in America?

okonomi · Post by **okonomi** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:28 am

Pani Puri;412880Indian owned.

"Juicy lure", a muskie might muse. May one ask Why ?

To speak the language of the child ? if so, Any specific language speaker ? Aanishanabe? Hindustani ? Tamil ? Oriya ?
for favorable/differential rates ? for Credit Card ? Cheque ? Cash ?
No matter how you go, check for CA state licensure to operate one.

Is OP still looking for a business opportunity among the indian diaspora ?

M V · Post by **M V** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:37 am

I looked for an Indian owned daycare when my child was little for many reasons. One was familiarity with things Indian. For example, if I pack khichdi for my child's lunch, I don't have to explain what it is, how to heat it, etc. to the Indian day care provider. She will know that already, and chances are if child doesn't eat it since the daal has become a little dried, she will know work-arounds like adding a little milk and warming it up. In short, the day care provider knows how to treat daal and I don't have to call it lentil when talking to her. Chances are also that daycare provider would know and tell me how to make a better khichdi that kids like.

Not necessarily for OP, but for many Indian parents whose kids are born in the U.S. and there are no grandparents visiting, Indian daycare provider is a valuable source of tips and info not found in American baby books.

Mastan Bhai · Post by **Mastan Bhai** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:56 am

modus_vivendi;413022I looked for an Indian owned daycare when my child was little for many reasons. One was familiarity with things Indian. For example, if I pack khichdi for my child's lunch, I don't have to explain what it is, how to heat it, etc. to the Indian day care provider. She will know that already, and chances are if child doesn't eat it since the daal has become a little dried, she will know work-arounds like adding a little milk and warming it up. In short, the day care provider knows how to treat daal and I don't have to call it lentil when talking to her. Chances are also that daycare provider would know and tell me how to make a better khichdi that kids like.

Not necessarily for OP, but for many Indian parents whose kids are born in the U.S. and there are no grandparents visiting, Indian daycare provider is a valuable source of tips and info not found in American baby books.

Why not just eat what the other kids eat? :rolleyes: I'm sure the American diet is better overall in nutritional value, and has more protein than an Indian one. I have a couple of cousins in the US and they are both pathetically skinny, having been raised on an Indian "pure vegetarian" diet. This steadfast refusal to adapt to other cultures is just as bad as the stereotypical American tourist who hunts out a McDonalds in foreign countries.

Another unsettling incident that comes to mind, is that when my mother went on a package tour of Europe with some other old women, they fed her Indian food for 12 days! That's just wrong, to be in Italy and eat daal khichdi and butter naan all the time. What a miserable trip it must have been! Am I really the only one who finds this disturbing? okonomi? Anyone?!