i used to go to best child's care on old hammond when i was a kid, i went well past the age i should. im 20 now and i still remember this place and how happy being there made me. i remember my teachers and counselors. i remember learning how to swim and the field trips. growing up i called this place my heaven. now that im an adult i decided to work as a counselor and i couldn't be happier. forever grateful read more

Fontainebleau Children's Academy - Child Care & Day Care Near Me - Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Great Daycare. The new owners have brought so many great new changes. I am very excited to the progress in my son from their teachings.

My almost 3 yrs old daughter has been enrolled at Best on Old Hammond since she was about 18 mos old. I have been very pleased with the care provided there. Everyone knows her by name. Any concern I had, Justine was patient with me and addressed any issue promptly. The teachers are kind and she has excelled in her counting, reading and socializing with other kids her age. She is also better at following instructions. A previous review made mention as to the menu offered, and it seems the owners have taken note. I've picked her up at different times throughout the day, and noticed that while they do still offer some processed items in meals or snacks (waffles, crackers, cookies, etc), I do also notice often a vegetable option at lunch and a fruit option with snack. I personally am fine with the menu, as it is basically what she eats at home, chicken nuggets, fruit cups etc. The first thing I noticed and still notice is how often it smells clean! Clean laundry if the kids get messy. You can tell the rooms and kitchen have been sanitized, and doesn't smell like dirty diapers when you walk in (unless I showed up RIGHT at diaper change time). The kids get a good amount of outside time, which i feel is important. And the area is safe, with secured fences and locked doors with keyfob access only. No daycare, or rarely any service for that matter, is perfect. The only issue I ever had, Best had no control over and handled to the best of their ability and communicated with me every step of the way. I am grateful for the attentive owners and kind caregivers. read more

I have been sending both of my children to Best Care since they were infants. Daycare facilities, in general, will never be as "good" as home. Not only do I love the way the entire staff interacts with the children, but I also admire the way that the staff takes the time to give me feedback on how my child's day was. My youngest attends the Pre-K program at the Best Care. He is writing very well for a 4 year old and comes home excited to tell me all of the things he learned. The curriculum is very structured. The owners run a tight ship at Best Care. The kids know what the expectations are as they are very clearly laid out. The center runs like a well-oiled machine. The owners and staff are VERY organized, whether it be the menu or the activities planned for the week. Events and activities are never last minute. As a busy parent, this is very important to me. As far as the size of the rooms where the children are kept, they vary depending on the age. The infant rooms are small, but they are for babies that cannot move around by themselves. I didn't have a problem with the size because the babies weren't crawling around. As children get older, they move up to different sized rooms. The toddler room is certainly much larger than the infant room to provide space for the children to play. My child's Pre-K room looks like a regular classroom that you might see at any school. The food given at Best Care probably wouldn't be as great as a home-cooked meal I might serve at my house. However, my kids get breakfast, lunch and a snack. True, most of the food is processed and breakfast is a bit sugary... but let's be honest... my kids would eat the same cereal or waffles at home anyway. The lunches could be a bit more balanced with more veggies and fruit, but I wouldn't say they are horrible. Think about it: the lunches served in our school cafeterias are all processed food and aren't that great either. It's not "mom's home cooking" but it's not as bad as it could be. Last, let me just say that with daycare centers, you get what you pay for. As daycare centers go, Best Care runs around the middle to high range as far as what they charge per week. The rates are reasonable considering the TLC the staff and owners give and the amount my kids have learned while being there. If you want home cooked, non-processed meals at a daycare center, good luck in finding them. If you want your child to learn, be loved and attended to, Best Care is a good place to start. read more

I enrolled my child at Best Care at 3 mo of age. I had visited them when I was pregnant to check them out. It was a convenient location and former neighbors of ours recommended them. I liked that it was a family run business and everyone was very nice. Mostly I chose Best Care due to location, though. I also thought that a class A center would be nicer than a class B (not necessarily true at all). Right away there were things that weren't terrible, but that I didn't like. The infant room was so small that the teacher could hardly move without stepping on a child. Only one to two (max) infants could be on the floor mat at a time and they were practically on top of each other. I didn't like that there was carpet--it's hard to clean, looked ancient, and little kids are all over it. What I really didn't like was when my 3 month old baby came home smelling like the teachers body odor because she chose not to wear deodorant. That is disgusting. I bathed him and started looking for a new daycare immediately. I also saw (twice) infants in his room (3-6 mo) being fed by putting them in a car seat and holding bottles for two of them at a time. I understand that they may need to be fed at the same time, but that is against state regulations. Infants are required to be held for feedings. They should have had the person that was the floating helper to come help with feedings. If an infant started to choke they would have had a hard time getting them out of the car seat straps in time to help them. Other things that influenced me to leave Best Care were the things I saw with the older children. The infant room is right across from the kitchen and every morning I saw that the kid's breakfast was high sugar cereal (fruit loops, cocoa puffs) 3 days a week and either waffles or french toast sticks drowned in syrup the other 2 days. No protein, nothing but crappy sugar. Lunches were also full of the crappy processed food that we don't eat in our house and I want limited at my son's school. Chicken nuggets and tater tots, etc. I realize that most day care centers and schools serve this type of food, but I wanted to find something better. It would be nice to have some consideration given to nutrition (call me crazy). My kid does not need gourmet food or organic everything, but I'd like him to have something at least slightly healthy. I also had safety concerns. After looking them up on the DCFS website (which I did before he went there and obviously missed things) I saw that they had been sited multiple times for allowing employees to start work before they cleared their background check. Wow. Really? I don't care if they had stellar references, I want the background check cleared. I don't know how they weren't shut down after 3+ incidents. I also did not like the unlocked front door and that there frequently was no one at the front desk. I saw kids put in time out at the front door (literally standing with their noses to the wall 2" from the door) and the person on front desk duty get up and walk to the back for something and be gone several minutes. In that time, a child could have ran right out the door. After seeing all those things in the 3 months we were there (and I was actively looking for a new day care for one of those months), I removed him from their care when he was 6 months old. We are now at a wonderful place. I no longer feel anxious at work and rush to pick him up as soon as humanly possible. I know he is safe, clean, engaged in developmental play, and very happy where he is at now. If you wonder why I didn't give Best Care only 1 star after listing so many bad things, it is because I do think that the people are nice and they mean well, they simply don't have the same concerns that I do and obviously have an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality. I had a much lower opinion of them until I went all over town looking at day cares and saw that Best Care is a million times better than most of them. There are some terrible places out there that are just store-rooms for children. Best Care is certainly not the "best care" they claim to be, but they are far from the worst from what I saw. read more

My daughter has been enrolled here for 2 years and I just enrolled my son. He started at 2 months. I love the staff, and the owners. They are very professional and go out of their way to help the kids. I am very satisfied with the service they provide. read more

My daughter started Best Care at 8 weeks old. She is now 6 and still goes there for before & after care. My 4 year old has also been there since he was 10 weeks old. The owners and workers are now like our extended family. My kids love going and love their teachers. Any issues we have had were immediately addressed and resolved. The Pre-K program is great and their summer camp is amazing. I recommend this daycare to anyone looking! read more