LITTLE SPROUTS EARLY LEARNING CENTER LLC

My children absolutely LOVE Little Sprouts. The staff is amazing and my children could not be happier. I would highly recommend to all families.

Our interactions with the director were less than pleasant. It never felt like we were a team working together but more like we were a bother. There was always blame put on us or deflected internally. The rest of the staff were amazing to work with and Miss Meg specifically is an amazing teacher. They exhibited compassion and empathy. At one point in time, we reached out to the director about a onetime request to pay ACH because our son was sick so we wouldn’t be making it to the school to drop off payment. At no point in time was there any sort of "I hope he feels better" or any sort of compassion towards our son. When we were upset that there was an illness going around the school and none of the parents were notified about this the director proceeded to blame her staff rather than being a leader and simply saying "WE will be sure to fix this issue". When we requested to have ASQ's completed we were told they would be, but the 48-month ASQ was shredded before we were ever able to see it. I truly believe that this was never completed. This was an attempt to support our advocacy to have our son, who was 3 1/2, moved up to the Pre-K class but we were never given that opportunity. When voicing concerns about our son still crying at drop off the director, who had never really interacted with our son and was never present during drop off, stated that our son's tears were crocodile tears. We were constantly reminded of rules and regulations by the director when making requests only to have our son dysregulated at least 2 times due to staffing issues forcing the preschool kids to move upstairs and a teacher wearing her own child around the class which no parent was ever informed of this as a courtesy. This dysregulation was due to our son moving upstairs (which is where he wanted to be, and we felt was best for him) but were told this was not an option but our son was the first one to go upstairs during staffing issues because he was the oldest, easier to handle upstairs and potty trained. We were accused of being noninclusive when it came to a child in our son’s classroom that had behavioral issues. At no point in time did we ever ask/suggest/demand that this child be moved. When we mentioned the behavior that we personally observed to staff we were informed by staff that he was going to be moved. weeks went by and when we inquired about it, we were met with aggression and accusations of us not being inclusive. Even after we said this was not our request but what we were told by staff we were met with a response quoting the inclusion policy for little sprouts. We had to tell the director multiple times that this was not our stance but what we were told by staff. All in all, our experience was tainted by the actions and responses of the director alone. This was something that we were informed about by multiple staff and parents who had their children at little sprouts as well prior to our start. They informed us that the director was hostile and difficult to work with, which we can confirm is an accurate representation. UPDATE 05FEB2024: Our son got home today from his first day at Montessori and was on cloud 9. At little sprouts, even the first day, he would come home and would grunt, moan, scream, and just overall be in a horrible mood. We expressed this concern multiple times to the director only to be told it is just a phase. This literal day and night change solidifies our initial concern about his environment and being with kids younger than him, being moved around constantly, disorganization, etc being the cause for his extreme change in behavior. That manic behavior started when he started at little sprouts and stopped 2 days after leaving (Left on Friday and went to new school on Monday). It is pretty incredible how much the environment and other factors matter. I just wish Little sprouts would have listened to us more

They constantly sent my nephew home. My nephew has some behavioral problems entering his toddler years. One of them is throwing and hitting. All things a daycare should be able to teach him, right? At first he got sent home once a week. Then it was three times a week. Then it was constant. They pretty much decided they didn't want to deal with his bad behavior anymore, so they would just send him home The mother of my nephew got early intervention to help prevent them from sending them home. They still continued to tell the mom to pick him up. They finally pulled him out the other day and we questioned the director on how they are incapable of helping my nephew and questioned the competency of the daycare. Also a note, sending a child who is throwing a tantrum home all the time is reinforcing the bad behavior. They pretty much taught him for a month or so that if he threw a tantrum he got what he wanted, to go home. Now he has more problems at home with not getting what he wants and throwing severe tantrums. It became worse when they started sending him home frequently. This daycare will not help you if your child is behaviorally struggling. Even if your child isn't behaviorally struggling I'd suggest you go somewhere else. I wouldn't want to go where they can't handle EVERYONE and they have issues controlling their students.

I couldn't have asked for a better daycare to send my child too. The workers there are all amazing. My son absolutely loves being there and playing with his friends. Knowing my child is in great hands, makes it a hell of a lot easier to be back to work. I will always recommend this facility to anyone I know. Miss Jess and all of the workers are very devoted to the children. Thank you for all of the hard work you guys do, day in and out!

I absolutely love this center and all they of to the children.