The Growing Place

The Growing Place is a true learning center. Mrs. Missy helped my son get back on track with his spelling words for school. They have a great balance of activities and learning for school agers. All the other levels always seem so engaged in something whenever I am in the center. Mrs. Angie is very nice to communicate with about different area schools. I know they must think of expanding daily because it’s tight quarters but they take care of the kids and teach them. Early mornings or middays the babies are being interacted with. All the staff get to know all the kids not just the kids in their classes. It’s really a descent place. I am anti sandbox but my son loves it, tons of positives. Cons: the sandbox : — (& the stuffy daycare smell some days, but I would attribute that to the size of the facility and they have such for the kids pets, activities, toys, gliders, cribs, library, meal area so yeah I guess it can get stuffy and probably real bad to go during or after diaper change since the babies are 1^st room. Honestly though if you need education, secure, kid focused non chain non franchise I would say choose Growing Place!

I was drawn away by the smell, I visited several and not all daycares have this particular «daycare» smell, might be because the building itself seems very small. Also seemed way too busy in there (noise wise) and grew concern that it would overstimulate my child because of how small and close the rooms are to each other despite the low ratios.

When we were searching for a daycare for our first born, we looked at every single school in the area. This was the first school that took the time to answer all our questions, give us a really through tour (we just dropped in) and felt like a really warm, creative space for a young tot. We didn’t put our daughter in daycare until she was 2 years old so we had a lot of concerns and she adjusted really well after only 2 weeks. One of the things we liked was how everything was small and at the children’s level, there were plenty of spaces for the children to be creative and in the toddler section, had only a 1 teacher to 6 children ratio, but the children also had the opportunity to play with kids. I also really appreciate the weekly newsletter they send out to parents with the meals, and the activities for the week.