GARDEN PATCH CREATIVE LEARNING CENTER owned by THE GARDEN PATCH CREATIVE LEARNIN

Garden Patch offers a very friendly, caring, supervised, structured environment. It is an equal mix between professional and educational that I am proud to have my daughter be a part of. The facility is very clean. In fact, the adjoining bathrooms between classrooms have cleaning schedules and staff sign up/are assigned daily cleaning chores. The rooms are always picked up for the next day; the floors constantly get vacuumed and mopped (I have seen them doing it several times, first hand). The facility also provides a very detailed parent handbook that covers everything from their sickness policy, their mission statement (and they follow through on this), who can retrieve your child (and they are very strict on this based on who is approved ahead of time by the parents), etc. They even have video cameras in the rooms if you want to check in on your children throughout the day.

The facility is also very safe. Garden Patch is very good about providing incident reports when a child gets hurt, even if it is minor. Parents are required to sign off on them which show that they are always kept in the loop. They have playgrounds that are safe and completely fenced in with privacy fences. From what I have seen firsthand, they have staff that constantly monitors the children in their rooms and ensure the children are kept in order.

My daughter has learned so much since being with Garden Patch. Staring in the 2's class, she learned and was able to count to 10 in Spanish (and even say a few words). They integrate education with art and play, which is extremely important for child development. I have an entire tote full to the brim with worksheets, art, and other things that my daughter has learned on a daily basis. The facility is very structured and activities are age-appropriate yet challenging.

The owner of Garden Patch takes extreme pride in what she is able to provide to her families and their children. She even emails everyone to let them know when she is going to be out of town or out of the office (for training and such) for period of time - no other daycare director I have ever come across does this. In fact, you hardly ever SEE directors at other facilities - but the director at Garden Patch is very hands on and is on-site constantly.

I never hesitate to recommend Garden Patch to anyone who asks or is looking for childcare, because this facility is not just merely "daycare," it provides infant/childcare, preschool, pre-k all wrapped into one. I am proud to take my daughter here and can't imagine her learning anywhere else.

I don't even know where to start. It's almost like the cliquy popular girls from high school decided to run a daycare. If they like you and your kids then you're golden, if they don't like you or your kid, good luck. The director puts her kids before anyone else's and will not listen to any concerns you have - she just tells you a story about how her kids had it worse. One of my children was injured to the point of needing a plastic surgeon at the ER and my other, school aged, child was bullied relentlessly. Every time we voiced concerns we were told that 1. she "doesn't believe in bullying so (she) knows it isn't happening" and 2. for him to tell the staff when it happens. Whenever my child told a staff member, he was "blamed" for causing the problem and often the bully received no consequences. There's no real curriculum and my youngest child entered kindergarten behind academically and socially. Needless to say we left and have never looked back - our new daycare is AMAZING beyond belief, wish we would have gone there before traumatizing our children at Garden Patch.