Happy Munchkins Large Family Daycare

"I wouldn’t recommend this daycare if you are black. The mother of the daycare is VERY rude and using words like aggressive and assault when describing a 2 year old going through a typical phase in their growth to have fussy moments. And when a conversation was trying to be held the mother became disrespectful and couldn’t have a normal adult conversation about the consistent calls about how the child is acting as if the child is just starting off the day wanting to hurt other kids unprovoked early in the morning. Please don’t waste your time here they don’t have cameras either so that’s an uncomfortable feeling accusing a 2 yr old of violent things with no real proof to back it up."

"My daughter has been attending Happy Munchkins Daycare for 3+ years and I enrolled my son as soon as I returned back to work last year. With my daughter, I was that first time parent that went through all of the multiple daycare options available, including visiting multiple large centers. After visiting Happy Munchkins, I knew an in home center was the best option for me. It was then an easy decision for me to enroll there specifically. The amount of 1 on 1 attention and learning/creative activities geared to my children's skills/interest has been instrumental in their development. Since my daughter has been able to start vocalizing her opinions, I have not stopped hearing about how great her school and teachers are. This is the most important thing to me and is a key reason on why I recommend Happy Munchkins."

"So I only had a preliminary meeting at this "center" since my 5 month old was already enrolled at a traditional center and I was looking for something closer to my work. I literally was only in the center for 5 minutes and had a pretty bad experience. When I walked in there were about 5-7 kids around 3 or 4 that we're playing with a cute pop-up tent maze. They were heavily active and a little rough bouncing around in such a small living room sized space and my first inclination was "How would my barely sitting up unassisted infant be in this environment? Would she be safe and monitored?" The answer to the latter would be probably not based on the context of the rest of the meeting. I spoke with one of the staff (out of 2) that I had planned this meeting with the week before. Even with the prep time, she seemed frazzled and on-edge during our encounter due to the hectic nature of the play going on. But I tried to look past that. So her first question derailed our whole meeting it seemed. "Is your baby eating food yet?" Suffice it to say, I mentioned that I had been interested in the philosophy of baby led weaning and that was a trigger it seemed. She immediately and callously cut me off to say: "This isn't the place for you. My babies are feeding themselves by 10 months." Which, independence is cool and I totally can get down with that, but as I tired to let her know that BLW wasn't something I was committed to or ride-or-die passionate about and could be flexible since this is my first baby/learning as I go she just seemed completely turned off and switched onto an entirely aggressive demeanor. She then asked about my baby's sleeping habits. When I told her they're short cat naps of 20-30 minutes at times (since she's going through a mental leap with a longer 1-2 hour nap in the afternoon, plus she sleeps through the night from 930pm-730am) she again cut me off with a disapproving look to crassly ask if my pediatrician "talked to me about that" because she wasn't napping enough. Before I could even say anything about the influence of the leaps or how her napping schedule fluctuates, she cut our interview and said "I'm just gunna be honest, this isn't the place for you." So... because my baby isn't on solids or napping for huge chunks of the day, we were turned away in like the rudest customer service experience I've ever had? (Don't forget, all this happened in 5 minutes.) It seems to me, they wanted an infant who could feed themselves and nap for most of their time so the staff could take a hands-off approach and wouldn't need to spend as much time nurturing the infant. Which, that makes sense when you have 7 other largely self-sufficient children to look after, but then why take infants at all then? Either way, her demeanor was incredibly rude. I could barely answer any of her questions before she cut me off and practically threw me out. It was seriously baffling and felt very much like a personal attack (this could just be my first time mom sensitivity.) I just wouldn't recommend this place to anyone based on how I was treated and pretty much belittled and demeaned. There was zero attempt at understanding, patience or even listening. Enroll at your own risk."