THE SEEDLINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC

I’m glad my toddler is at Seedlings. We started as an infant and during the transition into the program, the infant teachers patiently held our baby during naps and worked with bottle refusal (and we’d already seen an infant OT for this without luck). My toddler is thriving there. Lots of different activities in the toddler room and they get to play outside in the nice outdoor area when the weather is appropriate! The teachers care and comfort my toddler during hard drop offs. We’ve purposely visited at a lot of unexpected times and witnessed good care in the infant, toddler, and younger kids rooms that I walk by. The teachers have minimal turnover thus far and the substitute teachers are consistent so my child seems comfortable with them. For context, my family is hyper vigilant after having a bad experience with my infant at a different center. We have an older school aged child who went to a daycare where we previously lived, so I have several experiences (good and bad) and we are happy here. We feel apart of the community and the staff all greet us by name. Kim is open/available to chat and address concerns as needed and responds on brightwheel quickly.

Our son has been attending seedlings for the past 4 years! The staff have been great, each teacher has something wonderful to offer in their own way. We were recently in a major pinch with childcare with the transition from daycare to kindergarten and Kim literally saved the day!!

My son attended this learning center and was totally and completely traumatized in the aspect of potty training. While he was in the “Rhodie Room”, he started having frequent accidents and coming home telling me that he did not want to go potty at school because the lead teacher Emma would hold him by his shoulders to keep him on the toilet “until he pooped”. One time I went in and could hear him screaming from a completely different classroom and I heard the lead telling him he would not be able to get up until he pooped in the toilet. He also frequently told me his teachers were on their phones. He would come home with bruises, scratches and bites, and would tell me these happened from being allowed to wrestle with other kids in the room. There were many times he would come home with scratches or bruises that I would never get any explanation for. The worst part was my child went from a kid who loved going to his class in the morning, to a kid who I had to try and pry from my car to get him to go in. There were several times that I went in to pick him up and could hear teachers being harshly loud and yelling at the kids in their class. Also some of these “5 star reviews” are written by staff members of the center that don’t have kids there. I’ve also heard from other parents that did not write reviews that they were very unhappy with the care of their children.

We have been at The Seedlings since 2021, our oldest recently graduated and is off to start kindergarten and the youngest has 2.5 years to go. All educators and staff are friendly and genuinely care about the children, their teaching techniques are in line with our personal parenting style so the transition from class to home life is seamless for us. An app is utilised to check in/out children, communicate with the educators as well as the admin of the Day Care. It is honestly amazing all of the real time updates you receive about your child from snacks, meals, water breaks, diaper changes/potty breaks, activities, Spanish lessons and best of all photos of your child. As a mom it's so hard to trust strangers to take care of your child, especially in their most formative years of 0-5. You the readers don't know me at all but trust me when I say these educators are excellently skilled, highly trained, patient and your kids are in the best hands.

Our oldest daughter attended this daycare under other name and we LOVED it since the first day. They were caring and loving with her. She graduated and kept asking to go back to say hi to her former teachers. Now, they have a different administration, but our little one LOVES going there. She loves her teachers and is closely watched by the staff. The owner has been so supportive when we have needed her help. We would totally recommend The Seedlings Early Learning Center to any family looking for a place that really cares for their children.