Little Lamb Nursery

We enrolled our infant son in full time daycare here for about 8 months. It’s a small, in-home style facility. The infant room caretaker is a gem and was the main reason our short time there was warm and comfortable. In eight months we never met or had any contact with the owner which seemed odd for a small daycare that is right in our own neighborhood. We signed a form as part of our contract specifying we did not want our son’s photo posted on social media. Yet on two separate occasions we had to reach out and ask them to remove multiple photos of him that had been posted, which seemed careless. We were not informed that our son was moved out of the infant room for several weeks after the move had taken place, and only found out because of an incidental conversation. I recently learned that caretakers take transitions very seriously and typically create a full transition plan for parents and children when they are moving the child to a new room with a new teacher, because it often triggers new emotions and behaviors for the child inside and outside the daycare. Any amount of communication regarding his move would have been appreciated. In the same day that we learned he had moved rooms, we also learned that he was having a very difficult time adjusting to an inconsistent schedule which unfortunately is just how our schedule is. At the end of the day when we were told he had a good day, and his report said he had a good day, we believed it. That he was ever having a difficult time was never relayed to us, and it would have been helpful to know so that we could have made an effort to accommodate him. These two examples are communication areas that I think any parent would expect from their childcare provider. Towards the end of our enrollment, our son began yelling “LAY DOWN”, especially when putting him down for a nap. We did not make the connection to daycare until he began responding to the word “school” with “LAY DOWN.” I also connected this to possibly moving out of the infant room. We moved into the neighborhood in 2020 and have been excited to be a part of Little Lamb before we even had our son. Though it didn’t work out for us long-term, our son was fed, napped, safe, got to play outside, and returned home mostly clean except for the typical little boy grime. It’s a lovely facility in a beautiful neighborhood and we are the anomaly family that had a really disappointing experience.