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Kara Kellner
Mar 8, 2019
Kindercare is a good place for younger children who have easier minds/emotions to manipulate. Apparently as your child gets older & deals with more emotional feelings, the school struggles to know how to teach to cope& comfort children.
My son turned 5 while being here, & I kept the daycare well informed of at home lifestyle changes that were happening. But, every so often my son would have off days where yes,he would scream, cry, hide by coats "jump on furniture (although the 10sec video they showed me didn't really prove how "severe" his furniture jumping was) & push chairs. Now I'm a first time mom, so maybe I'm mistaken at how daycare works, but it doesn't sound like he's being violent or attacking anyone. Yet they would call me to come pick him up, instead of tending to the situation. To me it seems they just didn't want to try. One teacher seemingly was doing her best to work with my son, but apparently the director doesn't respect what the teacher had to say in regards to working with my son. After my son witness a horrific dog fight over the weekend at his dad's, he had a rough day & the director called me saying, "we can no longer provide care".
It's clear to me she just wanted us out. I understand they're not trained to help with that, but I do think children emotions & how to process them should be something the staff gets more educated in... If the kids are still "acting up" now that my son is no longer there, I suggest looking into how your staff is handling the children. Perhaps there are too many children for them to handle or maybe some just aren't good with kids. Or maybe the children are growing older& need to be taught how to handle themselves better..anyways, thanks for doing a mediocre job towards the end there.
Below is my original opinion on this daycare center.
First I want to say, thank you for getting my son to commit to using the bathroom!! I had such a struggle and he was 3yr old, so not many daycares accept children who aren't fully potty trained. With the help from the school, we were able to get him to entirely go on his own within a week or two; he totally had it down!!! My son has been going here for almost 2 years now & is about to go to kindergarten. This school has been one of the best things to happen for my son. When he first got there he was shy, and now he's so open& bubbly, they really helped him come out of his shell. He's learned a lot here, he knows more Spanish than I do!
Kindercare is really good at teaching the children to be polite & respectful. Greatful for the school! Great place! I defiantly recommended! 😀