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November 2023 by Mario Cruz
I would highly recommend Westside Kids Day Care Inc. The facilities are clean, organized, and has the right touch for all the kids. I have (2) daughters that absolutely love coming each morning. The staff are loving, trustable, and engaged with great communication. This was an easy decision for my family. The classroom teachers are amazing!! I would like to give a big shout out to Miss Megan for doing such an exceptional job! Thank you!
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November 2023 by Megan Bye
I whole heartedly support and recommend this place to anyone needing care for your babies or big kids. My daughters been through the rooms, and never had issues with any of the teachers or management, and my youngest can test my patience and make the days long, but the teachers are so great with her and she’s a stubborn little one and I have 5 children. And now she’s doing great and learning something new every day in the pre school room and excited to come to school every day, and other daughter loves it here and she was beyond ready to start kindergarten in the fall, trying read books on her own. Love, love, love this place. ?
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November 2023 by Megan B.
I've had three kiddos go through this center and out all other daycares and centers they've attended, this is by far their favorite. The teachers are great with my girls, my daughter did pre school here and when finished, now shes exceeding expectations for kindergarten and knows everything their just starting to go over, and putting words together and math problems. Very grateful for Ms. Racheal, and how good she is with the kids.My son looks forward to coming here before and after school, never any issues.My baby can be a little spit fire but oh my goodness, her teachers at so good with her, and she just loves them all, and the crafts and play time. Management is very friendly and all family, and they treat all the kiddos like they treat their own, they're always around, and willing to help. Gladly recommend this place over several others my family has visited and used in the past.
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September 2023 by Lexi Hill
Love this daycare center! My son did great in preschool, he is ready & right on track for kindergarten! All the rooms my kids have been in have been great. All staff is friendly & caring!
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September 2023 by Brennan Kissack
*Their incident/accident reports are public. Take a look at the ones from 2019 before taking your baby here.*We do not recommend West Side Kids daycare in Waukee. For starters, we paid them a ridiculous amount of money for them to not even adhere to basic federal/state guidelines or AAP recommendations when it comes to caring for infants. I did speak to the director, and she did seem receptive to my concerns, however, I was told that their “best and main” teachers were in the infant room. Well, those “best and main” teachers are the ones not adhering to guidelines. So perhaps this is a supervisory or training issue. I will say the owners are very nice, and it sounds like my concerns are being taken seriously. Needless to say, my son will not be back as I worry for his safety, which I should not have to do as a first time mom sending my child to a daycare. He only attended for TWO weeks! TWO WEEKS! Here are my concerns from only two weeks of care:1. My greatest concern is safe sleep. Most of the days that I picked up my son from daycare, he was in a swing, sleeping. Only once did I ever see him sleeping in a crib. And it wasn’t just my son, it was other young babies too. How scary. That brings me to my second concern:2. I pre made all of his bottles every morning for daycare. He SHOULD be taking 3 bottles between the hours of 7:45 and 4. When I picked him up on Thursday of last week at 3:45, he was only fed once that day as I was handed back 2 of the premade bottles I had brought with me that morning. He was fed around 9:30am or 10 at daycare per the app that updates me on his care. So my son went roughly 6 hours without eating, after having slept through the night. I’m sure you would ask, wouldn’t he be crying because he is hungry? Yes. But that day, they had him fully SWADDLED, with his arms restrained, in a swing, with a loose blanket on top him. Of course he didn’t cry or wake up for food - they had him in a swing most of the day with him getting lulled to sleep. I was absolutely horrified. I did not provide that swaddle. They did not ask me permission if he could be swaddled. They just did it. My son is 3.5 months old and showing signs of rolling. He should not be fully swaddled, let alone swaddled in a swing, with a loose blanket, sleeping. I thought to take a picture of him because of how horrifying it looked, but instead I took him out of the swaddle and swing as fast as I could. This was done by a “main” teacher, I should add.3. Often when I would drop him off or pick him up, I would catch the girls on their phones. Of course they would immediately put them away when they saw me. These 2 girls are caring for 8 babies, and they spend their day on their phones? While putting babies in unsafe sleep situations? Not okay.4. The first week my child attended, he had a blow out. I’m not sure what time he had a blow out, but he did. Before I picked him up, I saw on my phone that he was changed 15 min prior, so I did not bother to change him when we got home. When I did finally change him a couple hours later, he had poop all over the bottom of his onesie near the snaps. I did not see this until I changed his diaper because he was wearing pants. He had a spare outfit there! So my child was sitting/laying in feces on his clothes all day? They couldn’t bother to change his outfit? Not okay.This worst part about this is we reserved his spot at this daycare while I was 20 weeks pregnant. Daycare is so difficult to find, especially in the metro area. We took him out due to our safety concerns, while not having a new place reserved. Thankfully we have prospects and are hopeful he will be in a safer one soon. I’m hoping that West Side implements additional training, as it is abundantly clear that their staff is not mature enough to be caring for babies.
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September 2023 by Jessica Walton
West side kids is absolutely amazing! The ladies in the infant room are awesome, have recommended all of my mom friends here for their babies!
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April 2023 by Lou
Erika & her Mom are two of the nicest people we have worked with.Their facility is a model for daycare centers! Waukee residents are lucky to have them in their area! Thank you ladies!
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April 2021 by Weston M.
No complaints about the care and wellbeing of our two kids who have spent multiple years here. Have known others with the same experience. It's a family run, locally owned establishment and have recommended it to some of my dad friends.
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December 2020 by Nathan Paul
My kids have been going here for almost 3 years. Always been impressed with what they bring home from learning, songs and social aspect. Never had any issues and would recommend them to friends/family in the area. Great, caring staff as well.
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December 2019 by Paul Gehrke
West side kids has been wonderful to our kids. They enjoy being there and the staff is so friendly. Highly recommend.
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December 2018 by Abigail Shepherd
Great place for kids to learn play and grow! The center is always clean and the staff are friendly.
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December 2017 by Casey Lewis
Love love love this daycare! The staff is super friendly and the facility is clean. The best thing about this place is the indoor gym so the kids don't have to go outside when it's too cold. We transitioned our two year old to WestSide kids and were worried she wouldn't transition well, the staff made her feel so welcome she has never had an issue with feeling comfortable since Day 1.
