Impressionable Years

The best day care ever, professional teem, care, attentif, gentile and very respecful. The ceo wish i never meet just spoke over the phone, is the must respectable, comprehensif person i ever meet. I will recommanded to anyone evrey friends who want a very good day care where they take good care of children no matter what class or color.

As a first time mom I was VERY picky about where my son will be spending most of his day. I checked out at least 10 other day cares and was not happy with any of them, nothing was perfect. I wanted clean facility, warm and cozy infant room, big indoor area and play yard with high secure fence that faces woods, not roads, and of course, the teachers, are the most important. I am very happy with facility and my child’s teachers. The director is very nice, teachers are are nice and caring, just hope that everybody is sincere.

Due to an email sent to me from the owner of the daycare stating I am slandering her and the business and will sue me if I do not remove my post, I will post my experiences CONCERNING my own child under Freedom of Speech.
I am a single mom who’s whole pay went towards care. I had applied for vouchers and at the beginning i was being worked with, I appreciated that a lot, even though I paid a big chunk at the beginning. Come November I could not keep up with the whole tuition cost while fighting to receive the vouchers, so care was suspended for the second time till I finally brought the vouchers in; however the center still wanted to charge me for the two weeks they denied care. :(I refused to pay considering that the director knew I had gotten approved for the vouchers and waiting for them to be sent through the mail. The director still got paid from the state for the two weeks my daughter was denied care while I had to find another sitter and rearrange my work schedule to accommodate the inconvenience it had brought.
I had emailed at the end of December to see if the center was finally receiving money and was told «no» it takes a FEW weeks. I was then given a noticed on January 29^th after 6pm about paying full amount that was owed by January 31^st The amount stated that was owed was over $ 3,000. This message wasn’t even in an email or phone call but a quick message in the log in screen. I was highly upset and distraught; I was barley able to buy food for me to eat. Where was I to find $ 3000 in less then two days? I was never informed that payment by state was not received. In fact when I took the vouchers in to be filled out by the director, she had said she would see how much they cover and then I could start paying my part of the vouchers. As far as I knew I was caught up on my part excepted the last week of January I would owe $ 83.
Don’t get me wrong I was very appreciated of the fact that my daughter was still able to attend with such an amount due during the month of December and January; but I was unaware that state had not paid yet. However both times that care was denied, the director never spoke to me at all in person. The last time care was denied even after finding out that the director did not fill out the information correctly apparently, she was not there at all. I went into an emotional stressed out tantrum because I had to go to work. Not to mention with vouchers the child is only allowed to miss so many days and they will suspend the vouchers. Those days care was denied due to the center, counted against us. My daughter last day at this center was January 31^st. The following Monday after having a email conversation with the director about what I thought was going on and how much I actually owed, the lady in the office informed me that I could not leave my daughter there. Again the director was not there and I asked for her to call her. It took 20 min for the lady to finally get a hold of the director for me to speak to her via phone. The conversation was not pleasant on either end.
Every time I went into the center, the director was hardly every there. On my days off at work and when my daughter was required to be there due to the vouchers and the center as well, I would spend anywhere from an hour to 2 hours in the center. I just wished there was more communication instead this blindsided smack in the face. The one girl in the infant room was the one I saw the most of and was able to keep her updated on what was going on with me.
This was not my first choice of care for my daughter however was the only one with an opening at the time. A single mother making $ 11 an hour and having to pay $ 1216 a month was a struggle; plus on the calendar there are many days that the center is not open and you are still obligated to pay anyways, so I would have to find a private sitter to fill in for those days. I wish I was able to get my daughter into the another center who would of worked with me on tuition and even teach my daughter to sign plus work on crawling. She is now 10 months and has just started to crawl with a lot of assistance from me.

I signed my son into their program when he was 18 months old. I kept him in there until he was ready for Kindergarten. Any time I had any concerns, the director was always available to resolve any issues. My son was well prepared for school from their program. My only wish is that they would have focused a little more on reading. I would definitely suggest this as a daycare, and I have many times before.

This is the worst place I have ever been to– and as a concerned and active mother I have researched tons of day cares. The people look like they hate there job. The lady in the morning for drop off looked like she wanted to be anywhere but there. She wouldn’t respond to you when you said good morning, she was rude to the kids and she just sat there slouching in her chair. Anytime I was there every single person was sitting. There was no one actively playing with the kids or reading books or at least cleaning. Every day at the end of the day they would put a movie on for the kids. I’m sorry but I don’t pay you money to throw my kids in front of a tv. Its dark in there and I don’t like the open space concept. Its one huge room broken down into 3 or four classrooms or spaces.
The director was NEVER there. When I dropped the kids off in the morning she wasn’t there. When I picked up in the afternoon at 5pm she was already gone. She would never return phone calls. And several times no one would even answer the phone. The director’s mother works there and I have heard stories about her. She even gave me a sly comment that shocked me.
If I could sum this up in one word it would be «RUN!» Run as far away from this place as possible. The only reason they are open is because this in not a corporate licensed day care it is independent. So no one is looking over their shoulders, no one is showing them a proper curriculum. I used to be scared of the corporate licensed day cares because I thought they are just commercially run but that couldn’t be further from the truth. They are the places you want to be. They have standard, which this place does not, and they have people looking over their shoulders making sure it is run properly.
I might be spoiled by Kindercare because they always have a director present– from the beginning of the day to the end of the day. I have only seen them leave early maybe 2 times in the past 2 years– and that is fine with me. Those teachers are NEVER sitting unless they are actively playing with the kids or reading them a book. They are only allowed to maybe show a clip of a movie for holiday purposes. They constantly are cleaning all day long. The food is healthy.
So stick with the corporate and franchised day cares because at the end of the day it may be more but who can put a price on PEACE OF MIND…

We had Gus here Jan 2010 to Oct 2010 when he was a 3 months old until he was one. We loved it. They were attentive and sweet here. They have an enormous facility with large indoor play areas for teh children and they also have some very fun outdoor play area behind their building. THe staff was always great, informative and attentive. The only thing I didn’t like is for naps they would put the babies in their cribs and let them cry for the duration of the «nap time» so there were moments I would come in and a few munchkins were just crying.
But we loved it here.