Puddle Jumpers Child Devmnt

11/09/09

Worst child care center!

by ProudMommy04 at Citysearch

My child was attending this center for 2 years. In the beginning I was VERY impressed. I felt that hit the jackpot when I put my daughter here. After about a year, I started noticing different behavior from the staff towards me. I am a young mother and I believe that staff ESPECIALLY the director treated me as if I was a moron and didn't know how to raise my child. If I made any mistake as a mother it was putting her in this center!!!

My daughter has always had pretty good teachers here. The 3's teacher is by far the most responsible and caring one there though. I was sad when my daughter moved to the 5's...It was a circus in there. A week ago I pulled my daughter out of that center and put her into an actual Elementary school for Kindergarten. Should have done that 2 months ago!!!!

• Pros: Close to work
• Cons: Careless environment

09/22/09

Mediocre Care for a High Price

by Lacelia at Citysearch

I have had my son in Puddle Jumpers for about 11 months now. For a long time i really didn't have any problems. Except the past few months, my son has gotten bit by other kids on multiple occasions. I am getting about 2 or 3 incident reports a week. Other times he fell or got scratched by another kid. I have a stack of incidents. My son does not instigate or fight back, He just cries. They should be watching the children that are aggressive and make sure they try to keep them away from the passive children. My son deserves to have fun with out getting bullied. The teachers are pretty good though. I have an issue with not really knowing what teachers are in the class day to day. Or being introduced to the new ones. But besides the incidents or accidents. He seems to like it there. I am just concerned as a mom that they are not keeping that good of an eye on them. Children deserve to be in a safe environment. They need to be protected from bullies and yes, there can bullies at any age. And the price of this center is too expensive. The first 8 months it was good and the day care was worth paying more. If I didn't have so many incidents as I have had lately than I would not mind paying so much. Something drastically changed the past few months. I am looking for another daycare.

• Pros: Some good teachers
• Cons: Too many incident reports

07/28/09

Look Elsewhere

by Momoftwo at Citysearch

I have had my children in this center for a while and have had good and bad experiences. I have a daughter who is currently in the infant room and while I have always liked one of the teachers in the infant room, Ms. Koriann, the new teacher, Ms. Lindsay, doesn't seem to listen to what I have to say. Whenever I ask her to do something I feel like she brushes me off and I find out later that she totally ignored what I asked her to do because she believes she knows what is best for my child. I have talked to management about my concerns but they always side with the teacher so I am currently looking for a childcare center that places parents concerns above their teachers. I want my daughters to be in a center where if I ask the teachers to follow a certain schedule or not feed my child certain foods my requests will be honored and as long as Ms. Lindsay continues to be in the infant room here that will not happen. It's too bad Ms. Koriann won't move to a different center because my child and I certainly have loved having her as a teacher and she always seemed to address my concerns. I hate having my child go to this center when Ms. Koriann is off.

• Pros: Some good teachers
• Cons: Some bad teachers and bad management