This place has gone from great to disgusting and unsafe over the past couple of years. Management has turned over a couple of times since then and teacher staff is now a revolving door. We just pulled our daughter out of there because they aren't even pretending to apply a curriculum for pre-k. They're babysitters, now, and not even very good ones at that. Most recently, we found soiled clothing stuffed into her backpack with her other clothing, sheet, and blanket. Not in a bag, just right into her backpack which now is soaked with urine. My four-year-old doesn't often have accidents, but good lord, what lazy, thoughtless person thought this was ok? During the pandemic, staff was supposed to be masked. Almost daily, either on dropoff or pickup, there were staff seen in classrooms or in the office (the part parents and kids walk though) either completely without a mask or the mask pulled down. Every time I brought it up, I was told that they'd "mention it in a staff meeting" or confirm that yes, it is their policy for staff to mask up. Regardless of your views on masking, the fact that they just didn't enforce their own policies that are supposed to be in place for safety, is unacceptable. The owner, Tom, also spread misinformation during the pandemic regarding masks and other preventive measures via signage posted at the center and at the summer camp location. This place started going down hill quickly when the director (a couple of directors ago, I think) left. Andrea was the last good one, but it was clear that she was being hamstrung from actually doing anything good there. I know it's tough finding a child care center these days, but please, if you have the option, look elsewhere. I'm sure there are other places just as bad or worse, but I no longer trust this place to keep my child safe and certainly not to prepare her for kindergarten. The dozen or teachers who have cycled through that room in the past few months have been uninterested in getting to know the kids, have completely ignored kids who clearly needed attention, were downright mean to kids (witnessed during dropoff on numerous occasions). If you can help it, please trust your children to another center. Also, the five star review that this is updating was written with the promise of a starbucks giftcard. I'm not sure how many other positive reviews are genuine. read more

They're always very nice when I arrive to pick up my niece, Kaleiah. They already know me. LOL! The schools smell like Clorox. They seem to always be cleaning. The kids always appear happy. read more

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My little absolutely adores the teachers and daily activities. I couldn't before pleased with her care.

I used to be very happy with this daycare but recently it's decline in child care. I been brining my daughter here for almost a year and have had several incidents. All within the year she's had pink eye, Hand foot and mount, several colds, and evens been bitten twice. I accepted the common colds and the child hood sickness but yesterday really pushed me. I came to pick up my daughter and she was outside in the cold without shoes! My 2 year old was outside in the play ground with bark, in the cold without shoes!!!! I was livid and so upset who in right mind would allow this. My baby as soon as she saw me was asking about her shoes she was ha going from this play castle and looked uncomfortable. I picked up and was pretty upset one of the ladies told me I had nothing to do with this I'm just a substitute. The other young girl told Me we couldn't find her shoes. I picked up my child crying and upset demanded to talk to someone and was walked into her class room her dang shoes were right as you walked in. That even upset me more! I demanded to talk to a manager and get a call and the director never called me yesterday. I felt that this incident was pretty grave... the local manager from that club did talk to me and told me that they are working on staff. I just honestly feel like lately they don't care and the quality of care has decline horribly for the toddler room. They always have my babies blankets and items all over the place never in her basket. When I walked in yesterday to pick her up it was a total mess clothing and blankets all over. I hope the owner sees this and makes some changes soon! read more

I have two children that are in the care of love an laughter learning center and we absolutely love it! The staff are professional and caring for all of the children as if they are their own. The children are always engaged in a wide variety of developmentally appropriate curriculum. read more

Would give zero stars if I could! Parents BEWARE!! I called this daycare to see if they had any spots in the 2 year old class and was told they did. Everywhere else I called had no spots open, so I set up a tour the same day. I get there and Katie does the tour. I'm not sure who she is, she may be the manager or something but I do the tour and decided to pay the holding fee for the spot. I again asked Katie if there were spots available and she told me that there were. Hence paying the holding fee. Katie is NOT very clear on topics when she speaks. So if you deal with her (hopefully not), ask PLENTY OF QUESTIONS. She told me that they'll hold the spot for up to two weeks. While on the tour, I took my son with me who's nonverbal and on the spectrum. And the whole time, I can see that Katie is sort of side eyeing him as if he's a troublemaker because he wouldn't sit still when I was doing the paperwork. I got a really bad vibe then but I decided to move forward and paid the holding fee anyway just incase my hunch was wrong. A week and half later, I call this daycare to move forward with the registration paperwork and Katie told me that the spot was filled. I was taken aback because I had paid the holding fee. She then says she didn't charge my card because there's a waiting list with 10 people on it and they called everyone on the list. Which is total BS because if there was a waiting list, why make parents pay a holding fee for a spot?!? Also, why tell me that that there were spaces available if there was a list!?! She's a horrible liar! I asked to speak with the director Julieann and she gives me her email. I send an email to Julieann immediately to figure out what happened and on how they conduct business which is totally unacceptable and so unprofessional. It's been over a week and still no response from the director and I even sent a follow up email. Silence! It's clear they don't want to answer for what they did. This stunt they pulled was a total inconvenience and they didn't have the decency to let me know that the spot was filled. I only found out because I called them to get the registration packet. But again, parents BEWARE! This daycare is dirty/dengy looking but because no one else had spots open, I decided to move forward even though I wasn't totally feeling it. BEWARE!!! If you have a child with any sort of disability, don't bring them here. Every child deserves to be treated the same! I will be reporting them! read more

My son attended school kids clubhouse on 128th and Meridian from 3 months to 1 year. I loved the infant room teachers, Kate and Kristy. My son was always taken care of and happy. I love that they only take 4 babies at a time and have lots of toys and books for the babies to play with. I don't know about the other rooms since I had to discontinue my son's care there when he turned 1 due to a change in our work schedules, but I would definitely recommend the infant room. If we ever need full time care again I will look into using this daycare center. The other benefit is that they are very affordable if you are a cash paying parent. The office staff is also very friendly and I really did like the director, whom I believe is Jessica? The ONLY reason I give 4 stars is because if the normal infant room teachers are out (which rarely happens.) They have to use subs - which they could use a little bit more training I feel. Most times the subs were awesome though. Its just hard leaving your child with someone new and who doesnt know them well. read more

My daughter was previously in a learning center at a college I went to for 4 years. Once a graduated her spot was not secure so we had to leave. I found this school on the list I was given to look into. She was at the 128th location for a little over one month before we received a letter stating she could not return. I spoke with the staff on a almost daily schedule because they asked for her to be picked up due to "lack of staff being able to care for her" My daughter was sad every morning to go there. As a 5 year old that is not a good sign. The owner called later that night and explained the way the situation was handled was not okay, he also mentioned that the changing of rooms three times a day was not okay. I told the staff that weeks earlier and it continued. I would never recommend this daycare. read more

This place needs to either close down or change ownership completely! It is the absolute worse daycare I've ever see . My child was there for about a month and got 5 incident reports all of which was him getting attacked by other kids. We talked to the director (Kelly) and the teacher and all they kept on saying was "kids are gonna be kids" that is the most disgusting reply towards making sure the child is safe. I understand not all incidents can be avoided and that kids are going to be kids but they clearly know which kids have aggressive issues and yet they do nothing to prevent or stop them from being aggressive. This isn't just an accident it's a clear picture of their negligence and unwillingness to change or solve the problem. I even asked the director what next steps they take and all she said was that they will keep on documenting the reports and let the parents know. They don't give a crap about the safety and well-being of the children and it's clear through the attitude the director has when we bring up safety concerns and issues. If you love you little one and want to make sure they are actually taken care of, please please please stay away! No children should be neglected to the point that they get attacked constantly. We are so fearful of our child's safety that we are pulling him out and taking him elsewhere read more

My 2 1/2 year old son started going here about 3/4 months ago and I was very skeptical because up until then I had been a stay at home mom and was skeptical about how he would adjust with new surroundings and new people.....in the beginning of course it's difficult to leave your baby but his dad lets me know every day how his day went and it's always good and he's always in good spirits and it's so crazy how much he has learned from his alphabet to numbers and all different kinds of songs. I'm really glad he's in good hands here and I'm glad he enjoys it. read more

I took a tour of this daycare on April 12th and everything seemed fine at first and I started the enrollment process that day and filled out the paperwork. They gave me the papers to fill out to enroll my kids. They told me that I needed to have medical forms filled out before my kids could start attending. So I was back and forth with the doctors and gave them the papers they needed for them to attend. The whole process was horrible and they needed all this excessive information for them to enroll my kids, I got them everything they wanted and submitted everything on Thursday April 29th. I talked to LeAnn who was doing the enrollment and she guaranteed that my kids would be able to start the following Monday. And this was all great for me because I had not been looking for any other daycares since I knew for sure that they would be starting. Then the next day I get a call while I'm at work from a man named Tom who claims to be the CEO of this daycare. He just told me that they had over-enrolled kids and that his staff doesn't know how many kids that they have at this daycare. That none of his staff knows what they are doing and he told me he is going to get to the bottom of this. This was all a complete surprise to me because I had put all my time and effort into getting them into this daycare, and for them to not even know what's going on at their facility. I would not trust my kids going to this daycare after what they had put me through and also for them not even knowing how many kids they have, how are they keeping track of the kids that they have and they don't even know who all is enrolled. The staff seems very friendly at first on the tour but then their true colors started to show when I tried to get back all the medical documents that they had received from me. I had asked for them back and went to pick up these documents that same day April 29th and the lady there told me that they don't know where Leanne put my kids documents so they told me to go back the next day and pick them up. So I went back the next day to pick them up and everyone was really rude, they gave me a file with just one single document in it and it wasn't everything that I had given to them. I'm still missing the documents for the instructions for the emergency medication for my daughter and I am missing their immunization records. They did not give me back everything they had lied to me and told me that they had room for my kids and that they would be able to start on Monday. I would not trust my kids to go there and I would definitely not recommend this place to anybody I know. They wasted my time, time that I could have spent looking for childcare, I took time off of my work to get them the documents they needed to enroll them. Wasted my time but I hope this review will be a warning to other parents so the same does not happen to you. PLEASE BEWARE the people running this place are incompetent and they lie. Just do not choose this place even if it's your last option. read more

I placed my child in this care facility for their school-age (5-12 years) day camp summer program and it was nothing short of a nightmare. At first, I just thought my kiddo wanted to stay home with me all day and watch T.V. or play video games....you know being a kid. It wasn't until after I looked into it a bit further and started investigating his complaints. After a while I became concerned and contacted the local licensing office for daycare facilities and spoke to the agent of this facility. I found out some things about this place that you would think would wipe them out of business, but they are protected by a loophole in the daycare world. Day camps are not required to be "licensed" in the state of Washington. Licensing prevents our daycare facilities from being able to get away with certain things like: unsafe transportation, unhealthy quarters, inadequate staffing...etc. Because they are not required to be licensed as a "Day camp", they can get away with things such as listed below: The transportation vehicles the children are forced to ride in are filthy and not maintained to any safety standard. There was garbage and old food all over the floor of the vans and they stink. Parents pay more than advertised cost due to unnecessary fees. Day camp activities are not planned well and the kids are bored at camp causing arguments which lead to fist fights. The staff does nothing about the behavior issues. The staff is not background checked and I found out that one of the staff members has just gotten out of rehabilitation..... The day camp location is a couple miles away from the drop-off/pick-up location and the parents are not allowed to show up there unless it is an "emergency" The parents are not informed of injuries while the children are at camp, and a lot of times a note doesn't even go home. The staff is not properly trained and they clearly have no idea what they are doing. With this being said, I highly recommend that you choose another facility for your child if you value your child's well being. I just wish there was more I could do as a parent...one person..... to keep our kids safe than this yelp review. read more

My daughter attends this place and they are great! The staff are all so friendly and helpful and the teachers are very loving with the children. My little one is all smiles as soon as we walk in the building because she knows she will always be instantly greeted with familiar happy faces. The teachers are always prepared for the day with activities, and my daughter always looks forward to showing off her craft to me at pick up time. read more

These people are absolutely amazing. All 3 of my kids have attended SKC, LLLC, and summer camp 11 years and ongoing. They are excited to go to daycare everyday and see people that care for them like they are their own kids. read more

This place is great. They are always friendly and helpful. The staff is great with the kids. iIt's a terrific learning and playing environment. Our son always looks forward to going to daycare and loves the summer day camp. read more

Good place if your child can sit down and be quite, but if you have a child that gets over stimulated or has a strong personality this is not the place for you. They suggested a pause buddy and said if she picked it up they would take that as a que she needed time away from the pure chaos that is their class rooms. Did she get the chance to be out of the room or given any kind of break? Nope, she was forced to stay in the situation that was making her anxious and then they were surprised the fight or flight part of her brain took over. It's like these people have never taken a class to deal with children. The past week and a half she had been in the center for 1 full day because they called to have her picked up all the other days. I'm a single mom who has limited help, my thought is that they kept her for the minimum amount of time in order to collect co payment from the state. They don't deserve to be lincenced, my daughter would have faired better watching herself then having these people take "care" of her. I will be reporting them, I am on the verge of losing my job because they can't handle a four year old read more

I was told I had a daycare placement at SKCH for my son here. I filled out the info packet and turned it in. I was told the director would review it and let me know if I needed to do anything further but everything was good for my son to start at the beginning of June. I waited a couple days to hear back and meanwhile called the other care centers to remove us from their waiting lists. Someone from SKCH called my husband (even though I was the person they had been dealing with) and left a message saying we no longer had a placement with them. Another family submitted their paperwork AND paid at the time they submitted paperwork so we were put back on the waitlist. I didn't even know I could pay at the time I submitted our paperwork. Seems like a pretty shady thing to do to a family. You can't trust their word and that sucks when you are supposed to trust them with your kids. Praying we can get our place back on those other daycare waitlists. read more

I was the new Mom crying as I dropped off my son for his 1st day of daycare in the baby room. The staff was very sensitive to me being a new Mom. The baby room is great, so many options to keep these little ones busy and safe. My son (6 months) is so excited to see his teacher every morning. I can tell that he just loves it there and seeing all of the teachers interact with him as well as the other babies is very comforting. I know that my son is safe and happy while I am at work. The office staff is amazing too! read more

My son loves it here. He's always so happy and so excited to see his friends and teachers. The staff is amazing. Recommend this facility to everyone!! Thank you for leading my son!! read more

My son has attended this daycare for almost 4 years. I had never wanted to put my son in daycare and after much searching, I found School Kids Clubhouse. From the first day, they have taken excellent care of my son and I wouldn't take him anywhere else. They helped me feel at ease leaving him on his first day. They told me what to expect from him as he adjusted and that if I wanted to call to check on him, I was more than welcome to call any time. They make the daycare center feel like a small in-home daycare. My son loves all of his teachers and they all truly care about him and the other kids there. Because kids are kids, there have been some tough days for my son when he has acted out and the staff at SKC have always handled each situation with the utmost care, compassion, and understanding. They openly communicate with the parents and whenever there is a question they answer it thoroughly. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for a fun and caring place for their child. read more