SONIA'S LITTLE ANGEL'S DAY CARE

"Sonnia is very dedicated to her kids. She provides a stimulating learning environment, with a full preschool program. My boys learned so much. Highly recommend."

"This is my first experience using a daycare. These ladies are fantastic with my kids. Within the first week my kids started here they enjoyed it. They are a very clean place, great teacher. I'm happy I choose this daycare."

"*continuation of the other review* So while she continued screaming into the phone (I could even hear her when I pulled my phone from my ear) I hung up and called title 20. I spoke with a supervisor who happened to be there when my caseworker wasn’t and I asked about the 10 hour limit and my work hours. Basically the supervisor said “in your particular case with your work schedule, you have 730-530 which hits your 10 hour maximum” I said exactly could you please call the center and explain that because she doesn’t understand and is trying to make me pay an extra $150 for picking them up at 530. So the supervisor agrees. Then she calls back and says “after explaining it to the daycare she understood you do have until 530 but effective tomorrow she does not want your children st the center” I said “that’s cool I had a feeling she would say that because she was wrong.” I gave the supervisor the name and number of a different daycare I planned on taking my kids to. So even though the “director” tried to screw me with care, I already had a plan. Anyway, my I’m writing this extra long review detailing this because all of this happened in the THREE DAYS I had my kids there and from DAY TWO my kids already decided they did not like that place and made sure to be vocal about it. The “director” tried saying it was because of a “new environment” although we’ve moved to 3 different states in the past 2 years and my kids are no strangers to new environments. They just called the center out in its bulls*** and I backed them up. So if you’re looking into this center, make sure you bring a clock to help the “director” understand your work schedule and maybe a nanny cam too. It looks great on the surface for sure, but, this “director” surely needs some help with her job and a maybe an anger management class too. Good luck with your daycare search and God speed to you if you choose this place. *edit: in the first section of the review, I forgot to mention the conversation with the teacher about my oldest “running out of the center” turns out the “director” didn’t really know at all what happened and was making things up to fit her story. What actually happened per the teacher was both the classroom and center doors were propped open by the teachers and my son walked towards the center door to go outside because he “didn’t like the daycare and wanted to leave”, the teacher then brought him back and he did not try to leave again. My question is, why do you have the front door propped open with a building full of kids? And why make up what happened when you really didn’t know to try to make your story make sense? It just cements how the “director” isn’t too interested in the truth of things, put her character into question I say."

"Oooh man where do I start. This will be long. When I first went to tour this place seemed great! Unfortunately I learned on my kids first day, what I was told wasn’t all true. I have 3 school aged kids who gave me the whole lowdown on the goings on. I told the “director” (in quotes because she is super unprofessional smh) my biggest problem with daycares is bullying with both kids and teachers and the acceptance of it in centers. She said there has never been bullying there before. Yea ok. So the first day is ok. They said some of the things I told them they’d be doing per the “director” didn’t actually happen. Ok no big deal maybe I was mistaken. Anyway, so I pick up my kids yesterday (day 2 of being at the center) and my oldest immediately goes into how the teacher was screaming at his brother and sister for “no reason” and how a little girl was picking on him. So I asked all 3 what happened, they agreed a little girl was picking on,being mean,whatever to my oldest and my daughter tried getting up to tell the teacher about the little girl after all the kids were “yelled at” to sit down but my daughter never got to tell the teacher because she was again yelled at to sit down. I asked the teacher who was sitting there what happened. She admitted to yelling at my kids to sit down because it was “time to be quiet”. I said there are better ways to have them be quiet but don’t yell at my kids. She understood. So I talk to the “director” this morning about it and the allegations that I specifically told her I don’t deal with bullying from kids or teachers and she says “the teachers may raise their voice but they don’t yell at the kids it’s an authority voice” I said “no the teacher admitted to yelling at them” “well I guess it was quiet time watching a movie” “uh I don’t think so the kids were taking turns picking YouTube videos” “yea same thing and kids tease each other because kids are kids but there isn’t bullying ever” “so how do you define bullying?” “Hitting calling names” “so teasing a child is perfectly ok to you?” “No it’s not but then the child needs to tell the teacher” “well when my daughter tried she got screamed at to sit down so” “I’ll ask the teacher what happened” she also told me a teacher told her my oldest tried to run out of the daycare in the morning when they were first going into the school kids classroom. I said you mean when they first get there? She said yes. I said well I was there at that time and he didn’t do that. She said well he must have opened the door to the kids classroom then tried to leave after you left. I said maybe I should talk to the teacher who told you because it seems something is being lost from when she told you to what you’re telling me. Then she tells me I’m going over the 10 hour allowance title 20 gives me for finding. I should be there at 430. I told her I get off at 5 and there’s traffic sometimes so I can’t get there til 545. I told her I’d have title 20 call her because I thought I had 12 hours. Later she calls me and title 20 called her to finalize everything. I told her I talked to them as wel and I was mistaken about the 12 hours so I’ll be more careful about getting there at 530. She also says she talked to my daughter about the little girl. Even later after that I call to ask how much I’d have to pay if I get there at 545 (15 minutes late). She said $30/child. I have 5 kids. I said for 15 minutes? She said 540 would be an hour late. I said no 730-530 is 10 hours. Now I don’t know what math this woman was doing but she heavily insisted 730-530 was 11 hours and I needed to be there by 430 or I’d have to give her an extra $150/day because “the first hour didn’t count” and “the clock was already running at 730 when I dropped my kids off” whatever that even meant. I stopped trying to teach this woman how a clock works and told her I’d have title 20 call her to explain it. Well she certainly did not like that. She started screaming into the phone about how she doesn’t need anyone to explain it to her, it was her job, she knew how it worked, etc. *to be continued*"

"I really hope their driving isn't an example of how their all around safety with children is. A driver of this company, in their clearly marked vehicle, didn't even bother to stop and rolled right past a stop sign on to Broadway! I had to slam on my brakes to avoid hitting them and still stopped about a foot away. Imagine your kids riding around with that careless driving. I know where I wouldn't consider taking my kids to for child care."