I took my 4 year old foster son here when he was first placed with me, and I was so disgusted with the care he received here that it still makes me angry to think about five years later. I chose this day care because it was close to my home, across the street from the elementary school, and when I went to visit she assured me that she had experience with foster children and there was another parent there that gave her a wonderful review. A couple days after he arrived, my foster son started at Echo Lake Daycare. At first Zary complained that he climbed -- imagine that! A 4-year-old boy that likes to climb! In the first couple of days I could tell that Zary just did not like him. On the third day that he was there, Zary called my work and started yelling at my assistant "THIS KID IS SICK IN THE HEAD!!! HE BELONGS IN A HOSPITAL!!! SHE NEEDS TO COME GET HIM NOW!!!" I called her back and she continued yelling the same sort of things IN FRONT OF HIM! When I picked him up, she showed me what he was doing -- he was standing on a swing -- that makes him sick in the head? It kills me to see that another child got the same treatment by Zary -- she has no business caring for children.
For the record, that child is still with me and will be forever, he is sweet and charming, not sick in the head nor has he spent time in a hospital besides the Emergency Room for little boy accidents. He does have amazing balance, because instead of discouraging his climbing, I enrolled him in gymnastics and made him good at it! read more