Kidz R Os International Daycare & Vuggestue
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Valby · Copenhagen

It’s our world

They arrive in your arms.
They leave on their own feet.

Os is Danish for us, so the name has always meant the same thing: the kids are us, and the world is theirs. We try to look at all of it from their height.

6 months to 3 years · English spoken · 8:00–16:30

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A toddler playing with building blocks on the mat at Kidz R Os
A smiling toddler reaching up during play at Kidz R Os
A child in a snowsuit playing in the sand outdoors at Kidz R Os
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The flight starts here

2 children have already been offered a place and start soon - those places are taken.

The first morning

Leaving your little heart with us is not easy – trust us, we know

You will hand over someone very small, walk out of a door, and find that the walk to the bus is the longest one of the year.

We know how this goes. Somewhere around ten past ten you will check your phone. Nothing will have arrived, and you will have no way of telling whether that is a good sign or a bad one.

10:07

So we send something at ten past ten. A line and a photograph, straight to your family page. Not because there is news - because there isn’t, and you need to be told that by somebody who can see them.

And on the days it went badly, we say that it went badly.

The first language

Nobody here needed words to understand each other

Long before a child has a single word, they already speak the first language fluently. Being picked up. A voice they know. A face that arrives when they cry.

Our families come from all over. The grown-ups manage in English - that is the language of the gate, the parties and the parent chat. The children arrive with no shared language whatsoever, and it has never once slowed them down. They work each other out in an afternoon, the way small people do.

Love first. English comes along later, in its own time.

It is why a family who landed in Copenhagen three weeks ago is inside this community by the second morning.

The promises

Three things you are too polite to ask

So we will answer them without being asked.

1

“If they cry, will somebody come?”

Wherever they happen to be - the play space, the table at lunch, the sleep room in the afternoon - a grown-up they know is a few steps away. Nobody has to wait their turn to be picked up.

2

“Will anyone really know them?”

By name in the first hour. By what makes them laugh, which song settles them and which cup is theirs, well inside the first week.

3

“Will I hear how it went?”

At the door, at pick-up, from the person who was actually with them. What they ate, how they slept, and what made them happy that day.

You go, we wave, and seven hours later you come back. In between, there is a shape to the day.

See a day in our world

Six months to three years

Os means us. This is the part where that matters most.

They come in being carried. One day, without announcing it, they walk out to go and find more of the world.

In between there are a hundred firsts, and not one of them belongs to us alone. The first time they pull themselves up on the low shelf. The first word that neither of us quite believes. The first friend, made before either of them had a name for it.

We find them together, and you hear about them the same day. They are yours as much as ours - that is what the name has always meant.

A child exploring the play space at Kidz R Os
Six monthsCarried in, asleep on your shoulder. Not yet certain the world is a friendly place.
A child playing outdoors in the sandpit at Kidz R Os
All the firstsStanding, then stepping. A word. A joke. The morning they forget to check whether you are still at the gate.
A quiet moment during the day at Kidz R Os
Three yearsWalking out to børnehave with their own bag, off to discover the rest of it - and telling you all about it whether you asked or not.

The grown-ups

The same faces, week after week

A child settles because of a person, never because of a building.

So the question worth asking is not how many staff a place has, but whether the face there on Monday is the one that was there on Friday. Ours are Martyna, Janet and Deepa, and they have been here a long time.

Meet them

What it costs

A healthy breakfast, a hot lunch, and something proper in the afternoon

kr 12.700a month, before your kommune subsidy

All the food is included in that. Your kommune pays a share of the rest, and the paperwork for it is less painful than it looks. What you would actually pay →

Where our world is

The same gate, every morning

Small children take comfort from a route they recognise. Ours know exactly which door is theirs, and most of them could find it without help by the second month. It is at Lyshøjgårdsvej 45, 2500 Valby.

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Come into our world

Half an hour is enough. Stand in the room and watch what happens when somebody cries. Everything you actually want to know is in the answer to that.

Stand in the room