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November 2023 by Laura Shields
I will list only facts- my son attended this daycare for less than a year and was in three rooms- there were multiple times that I did not know who his teachers were- I had to pick my son up with a snack and drink everyday because he was always hungry and really thirsty anytime I picked him up- he was injured and I still do not know what teacher was in the room during the incident.- there were three occasions where we were told that that facility would be closed so they could clean due to illnesses. This was with no warning and I had to take PTO to be with my child.- there were several instances where we dropped our son off and they were out of ratio to the adults. When we mentioned this to the director there was always and excuse and when we talked to the pastor about it he stated that we were lying.- I regret ever sending my son to this facility.
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November 2023 by Amber Shields
Don’t send your kids here - specifically writing about the 2-4year old rooms.Since pulling my son out of the Life4kidz daycare my fridge is covered in art work, my son doesn’t come home wanting to watch TV because that is what they did all day at Life4kidz. Since pulling my son from life 4kidz he comes home and tells me everything he has learned - and he has learned more in the past month at his new daycare than he did in the nearly 1 year he was at Life4kidz. This daycare is not education based, it isn’t play based - it isn’t based on anything developmentally appropriate for little ones. More than 10 times during pick-up or drop-off I would hear teachers yelling and screaming at children under the age of 3-I can’t even begin to imagine what it looked like outside of those times. More times than I can count teachers were on their phones. They will say their tv policy is after 5pm, but I often times picked my kid up between 3-4 and the kids would be sat in front of a TV. Every time I picked my son up he would be crying of thirst and begging for water - I thought maybe he just played hard - come to find out that they wouldn’t give the kids anything to drink when they asked. I picked my son up from Life4kidz and he told me his butt hurt - they hadn’t wiped him at all. Towards the end of our time at Life4kidz there was an incident where my son was sent home with large bruises across his neck. There was an incident report, but not a single teacher, not even the teacher who filled out the incident report, could tell me who was in the classroom at the time of my son being choked by another child. Coincidentally the video from the cameras was not working. Don’t even get me started on the amount of times I dropped my son off when teacher to kid ratios were way off - 17-1, 16-1, 19-1 - and when I brought up ratios I was told by the pastor of this church that I was a liar. Even though neither the pastor or the director were present at the daycare until 9am.My son is a different kid since leaving Life4kidz, and I won’t be able to appropriately convey the positive changes going elsewhere has made on his entire personality within this review. I wish more than anything in the world I could take back the time I sent my son to this awful daycare. I wish more than anything in the world that I hadn’t given up spots at other daycares to send my son here. I can’t take back the time I sent my son here, but hopefully this will reach other parents, and they can choose a different daycare.
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October 2023 by Laura S.
I will list only facts - my son attended this daycare for less than a year and was in three rooms - there were multiple times that I did not know who his teachers were - I had to pick my son up with a snack and drink everyday because he was always hungry and really thirsty anytime I picked him up - he was injured and I still do not know what teacher was in the room during the incident. - there were three occasions where we were told that that facility would be closed so they could clean due to illnesses. This was with no warning and I had to take PTO to be with my child. - there were several instances where we dropped our son off and they were out of ratio to the adults. When we mentioned this to the director there was always and excuse and when we talked to the pastor about it he stated that we were lying. - I regret ever sending my son to this facility.
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January 2023 by Yazmyn B.
I was employed here for a short period of time before being let go through a text message after Amanda the current director came in my Toddlers 1 classroom and begin telling me that I bullied 6 of her employees, she receives 6 calls about me before even getting out of the shower in the morning and that I'm making her work environment toxic. All of which is untrue because I do not interact with 6 of her employees on a day to day basis I go to breakfast and to lunch outside of that I was in my class, pushing my buggy or on the playground and she'd know what really goes on if she'd be there in the mornings to run the business instead of appointing random employees so with all of that being said the employees she's speaking of I've called out for either mishandling kids or neglecting their duties while with the kids because they simply just don't want to do it and it's even been brought to Amanda's attention but the problems never stopped because she's too close to her workers to hold them accountable and she be taken seriously. Instead they'll let your children sit in their poop, won't follow the schedules in place for them, and they even fall asleep with your children during nap time which is a safety hazard they have already had to address with an employee they let go of but because they pick and choose when to follow the rules only people who aren't close to Amanda get reprimanded. Things that resort in automatic grounds of termination are not taken seriously in that building because everyone is friends and that's how the business is operated. People have left kids in the classroom, they yank kids around during breakfast and lunch if they aren't sitting how they'd like them too. Some of the things I've heard them say about children is one of the main reasons I enrolled my daughter in that daycare and never brought her even though I was employed there! In the Toddlers 1 room more specifically they pick and choose which kids they want to tolerate so much so I had to take a later lunch because no one wanted to deal with one kid when it came to napping. The toys aren't properly cleaned by the closers daily so sickness is constantly being passed around. The kids sippy cups in the kitchen were barely getting cleaned, sometimes they wouldn't even have breakfast prepared for the kids so they'd give them hostess packaged muffins and squeeze apple sauce or a nutrigrain bar. There's been accidents on the bus and parents weren't even notified. This is for A Hall specifically the right side of the building. I didn't interact with the left side often but when I did I hardly seen this type of behavior. If you didn't claim to be "bullied" by me you can blame your boss for saying the entire right side said I had an issue with them when I really only interacted with the toddlers 2 teacher because we handle the same kids most days and if it had not been for her I wouldn't even know certain policies because I was never properly trained and I was almost 2 months into working there. That just goes to show they'll throw whoever in there just to make sure there's a body without getting to know how a person works. The last teacher in this class left behind drama too. Those kids deserve stability and are being deprived of it simply because of unnecessary drama or negligence. I wasn't an inadequate teacher, luckily I do have a passion for kids and genuinely loved what I was doing but it's hard when you're working under someone you cannot even go to with your issues because she sits in the office and engages in conversation about you forming an opinion to a story she's only considered one side because she never came and talked to me until the day she "relieved" me. Meanwhile, she did all this after I texted her and told her I had a fever. I wasn't even feeling well and she could have called me and told me like a professional or sent a formal email. I'm not saying any of t
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December 2021 by Jillian Yelverton
My daughter was due Nov 2020. In an effort to try and get ahead of the game, I called several daycare facilities to see if I could put my daughter on the waitlist for when I was ready to return to work. I called Life 4 Kidz, which came highly recommended to me, and provided them with MY name, due date and phone number. I was asked to call back once my daughter was born in order to provide them with her name and DOB. I did this almost immediately after being discharged from the hospital. I have since followed up there a few times, just to be told there is still no space. Yesterday, 7/28/21, I called in the morning and asked the woman who answered the phone (and was very sweet), to check and make sure my daughters name was still on the list, as she mentioned there was a change of administration recently. Well, of course, after spending 20 minutes on the phone, my daughter nor my name was nowhere to be found on the waitlist. Apparently this has happened to other families. I was told we could not re-add my daughter, as they are not accepting any more names on the wait list now. I was extremely frustrated and upset. What poor transition and terrible organization. I have referred several people myself to put their children on the waitlist, only to get my daughter “bumped off” or disappear from it.
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December 2020 by Laura Mineran
This school is amazing. My daughter is in love with all of the teachers here, even the teachers that do not teach her class are so attentive and loving. We have had nothing but amazing experiences here. My daughter looks forward to school every day!We will definitely be enrolling our future kids in this school!
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December 2017 by Kerry Johnston
We love life! Wonderful staff that treat you like family. Teachers are great and both my kids are very happy there! Highly recommend!
