Sunshine House of Colorado Springs 6910 Wills Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80923

"We love the Sunshine House! My son’s teachers, Libby and Erica, care for my little guy as if he were their own. I feel safe sending him there and love that they have healthy and yummy options for lunch. There’s open communication. The thing I love the most is that the teacher don’t try to force my son into a little box. His art projects don’t come home perfect, as if an adult basically did it for him while holding his hand. They give him the freedom to create and learn in his own way and at his own pace. Highly recommend."

"My family's experience at the Sunshine House has been nothing but wonderful. We transferred from another local daycare because of terrible turnover & have not experienced that at all at Sunshine House. The director Ashley obviously is doing something right to continue to retain top talent! My kids will have to leave once they start Kindergarten (unfortunately SH doesn't bus to & from the school we chose) and we are so sad about it! Ashley has been communicative and supportive as my family navigates a major family transition that could have been traumatic for my kids. My kids' teachers, Shelby and Lillie, have also been very helpful in understanding that my kids might act out on certain days depending on what may be going on in their lives and show them grace and kindness. My daughter was having difficulties at nap time (she was waking other kids up) so I worked with Shelby to find a way to entertain her during this time & we've rarely had any instances since. My kids not only love their classroom teachers, but they are excited to see everyone at the Sunshine House!"

"Do NOT recommend. Teachers are great but Ashely the director is horrible. I wish she would take some leave and think about how her interactions with parents are effecting parents and students. If you child is not a cookie cutter child then they will have a hard time here and there is a good chance you will have to leave. The teachers are NOT allowed to tell you the truth about how your was that day. Quoted by Ashley she only allows them to tell parents how their last hour there has been. She also says they can’t give written updated or feedback as they don’t want legal action taken against them. Why would that be the case if you are only reporting on behaviors seen that day unless you are exaggerating them. Then you get surprised by Ashely when she calls you and say that there are issues with your child behavior, making you feel like you are at fault as a parent. Then you have to meet with an ADA from corporate to go over the inflated behavior that Ashely tells everyone about. That when and if you can get on the schedule of ADA. It takes weeks to months sometimes to get on a schedule that works for Ashley and the ADA. I seriously thought my child was a delinquent. We are working parents but showed up everyday at the same time to make sure we did not need to pull him out for a short time and then bring him back. This last time he was off due to it being the Christmas holiday and when I met with Ashley I told her that, she said he has to be pick up during nap time until we could met again and if his behavior did not change we would be forced to go to half days. We would talk again in two weeks. I explained it was the holiday time but we would continue to work with him (let me say we had no issues with him at our home or even when we took him out or to friends home with other kids) so this was just so weird for us. He has also attend two day cares before this one with zero issues. Then all of a sudden my husband comes home and tells me he is suspended. That was out last draw. We immediately started looking for other day cares and found an amazing one. They took us right away. We had a follow up call with Ashley and the ADA “were we would told “if he was allowed to come back he would have to go to half days” Ashley has also told me that our sons teacher said she tried many times to connect with us about his behavior which is a lie as we are always available anytime they called (I always recognized their number when it came in). We absolutely felt discriminated against and was not sure why we were targeted. I just wanted to make sure I provided my review to validate the two recent reviews about this center. I would say enroll at your own risk"

"Don't recommend at all. We started our 3yo son at Sunshine House second week of October. Before we started we triple checked it wasn't going to be a problem for them to work with us on potty training and reiterated he still has alot of accidents at 3yo. We just started training in June. He attended for almost a month and everything seemed great. My son was happy and seemed to be doing really well. But the director advised she needed to talk. During the conversation she mentions that since day 1 he'd been hitting teachers and friends and having alot of accidents. Ok, not appropriate that he's hitting. So we end the convo with we will talk with him about it but not much we can do when we aren't there. I also ask them to start communicating with us about these instances because up until the convo we hadn't heard anything from anyone and I was completely taken by surprise with this info. We scheduled a follow up phone convo another month later, hearing nothing from anyone in between. The couple of times my husband was able to talk to the teachers "he had a great day". During this 2nd phone convo they proceed to tell me he's still hitting teachers, doesn't listen, refuses to nap and refuses to potty on the toilet. Inconsistent with what we heard from teachers and what was put into the school app by his teachers. Also inconsistent with what happens at home 90% of the time. He does not behave like this. They also tried to tell us that he has an intestinal issue and were claiming he had diarrhea almost once a week. We took him to the pediatrician who thought this was absurd and told us he was completely fine. He never had any other symptoms and was always perfectly fine when we got him home. Then they proceed to tell us we either have to do a modified schedule (which conflicted with our work schedules) or he had to be pulled out by the end of the week. Right before the holidays knowing that child care takes a while to get into anyway. They never tried to have any sit down meetings between all of us to try and make a game plan and discuss where the disconnect may be between home and school. Nothing. Didn't want to work with us on potty training just wanted us to put him back in pull ups 24/7. It's like they had a vendetta out for us and our kid for some reason. None of it made any sense at all and in the end was extremely selfish of them. Now I'm risking losing my job and we can't go see family for Christmas. Please don't give them your money. They don't even try to care for our children."

"The facility is clean, well organized and the teachers are great however, Ashley, the director seems to be highly disorganized and discriminative against CCAP families. She has made multiple comments about how they lose money accepting CCAP families which makes me wonder why they accept CCAP in the first place if this is the problem. My son was kicked out of the daycare earlier this year after being diagnosed with a sensory processing disorder, severely speeched delayed leading him to act out in class. She mentioned she was willing to work with me and my son and come up with a strategy based on his needs and before an action plan could go into place. My son had just started OT and speech therapy and before we could even see results he was kicked out of this daycare. She was extremely dismissive and I genuinely felt like my son was being targeted and discriminated against. He is now in a daycare where he is thriving and these teachers and the director work with me and my son through these problems. Also, after leaving this facility a teacher reached out to me in regards to the way my son was being treated. I am disgusted by the director and they way she handles things. I do not recommend this daycare to anybody, specifically those who have CCAP."