Yes, best daycare in town! Loving owners, second generation. Clean, well cared for building.read more

Started here when my daughter was 5 months, wouldn't trust anyone else with her! Best teachers,…read moresmall school, my daughter is ahead of my friends kids & i credit a lot of it to this daycare!

This daycare has truly been a blessing, especially when you don't have family nearby…read more My two children have been here for almost three years, and the experience has been amazing from start to finish. The teachers and staff are incredibly attentive, caring, and professional. I want to give a special shoutout to Mrs. Christy (Director), Mrs. Margaret (Infant Room), Mrs. Patricia and Mrs. Alex (Young Twos), as well as Ms. Jasmine, Ms. Arushi, and Ms. Shay. They've all played a big part in our children's growth and happiness. The entire team is patient, loving, and always willing to listen to concerns and support your child's needs. We're moving out of state, which is why I felt it was important to leave this review now. Our most recent experiences have been just as positive as when we first started--which says a lot about their consistency and dedication. We're truly grateful and will miss this daycare so much!

Oviedo preschool with cameras! This is a wonderful preschool that you can view streaming live…read morecameras of your child at anytime throughout the day. We wish all preschools were required to have this feature. The staff and director are so wonderful. The classrooms are very clean. We would recommend this preschool if you want peace of mind to see how your child is doing throughout the day. It is hard enough dropping them off sometimes and knowing we could view our daughter anytime was wonderful.

My 20 month old son has been going to First Step Kids Academy since he was 5 months old. He…read moreabsolutely loves going to school everyday. The teachers are all very friendly and seem to love all the children. He is learning so much and also Spanish, which I am ecstatic about. Also you can't beat their pricing!!

Mrs. Leidy and the infant teachers have been amazing with our little girl. Never easy leaving your…read more12 week old to go back to work but I know she is in loving hands and we feel comforted knowing that Mrs. Leidy has worked as a pediatric nurse. That is something that no other centers in our area can offer-- her medical background is invaluable to us! She has already given us great recommendations and goes above and beyond to make sure they are able to provide the best environment to help her grow into a happy and healthy little girl.

First and for most I want to thank the staff a Kids R Kids Waterford for always going above and…read morebeyond for our girls. We felt so welcomed from the time of our tour, enrollment and throughout the months of our girls attending. Thank you so much for all that you guys do, we feel so blessed to have the girls in such a great school that actually has fun activities and invests in the students families and community!

I will always have great things to say about KRK at Waterford Lakes! They were the first place my…read moredaughter and I was so scared as a first time mom to think of my child being somewhere without me all day but I knew I needed to do it. They have open communication and if I had any concerns they were always addressed. They are truly a second family to us and having to move was truly a sad moment. I'm glad this was my daughters first experience with school and I would definitely recommend anyone to enroll their children at KRK.

I enrolled my daughter in Primrose Avalon Park's Explorers (school aged children) program for the…read moresummer. The classroom was roomy and offered a lot of things for the students to interact with, everyday. Ms. Gold and Ms. Neree were great with the kids, and always had something fun or creative for them to do. They also went on several field trips, which my daughter had a blast on and I felt that the policies and procedures set in place worked well for safety. I would definitely recommend Primrose Avalon Park for Infant through school aged childcare

This school was quick to expel my kid for 4 year old behaviors. Before I enrolled him here I was…read morevery transparent about my son's struggles (I had tried one school before this one that turned out to be a lot better than this one) and explained to them that we were working on getting him acclimated to a school environment since he has only been in school for about 6 months of his life, 4 prior to starting here. Most mornings when I dropped him off I stayed with him for about 30 minutes until the teacher turned on the clean up song before morning snack. I did this because I realized early on the teachers in his classroom were not going to work with him to get him use to the process of his new classroom (he would be expected to know what to do). Me staying had a positive impact on the outcome of his day. My son would need to get to a place where he felt comfortable and welcomed in order to be the best 4 year old he knows how to be. I guess this is a lot to ask of schools these days because they have "23 kids" in a classroom and don't have time to help kids individually. This is detrimental if you really think about it. There has to be an introductory process for kids that are not conformists and more anxious around new settings. He was only at this school for about 2 months. He never really got a fair chance. They were calling me about his behavior within the first week and that's when I knew I made a mistake and it wouldn't work. Calling me less than a week after a kid starts a new school meant in the long run they won't be bothered (hence the reason I started staying and working with him at the school) with his shortcomings. Oh look, I was right! I spoke to Ms Clark on Friday letting her know he was on a waiting list for a therapist to come work with him at the school and by Tuesday (he didn't go to school on Monday) I was called to pick him up for the reason that he was running around the classroom and not wanting to come inside from the playground. The lady at the front desk said my kid squeezed her hand (this is called agression) and he was expelled per the owners request apparently because they couldn't get him under control. I wonder how they got him to the front office to sit? This comes a day after he started his in home behavioral therapy that was designed to help him learn how to interact with others when situations arise in a positive way. I needed my son to learn the patience and communication that's expected of him from the preschool system. Seriously parents how do you do it? How do you get your kids to meet the preschool standards these days? I've tried everything! A lot of kids haven't learned it but they get by I guess. My son is a normal fun loving kid at home. I'm absolutely ok with him as a 4 year old but I do agree he needs help learning transitions and positive communication in a school setting but if I can't depend on a school to work with me on that then what? After noticing the adults running and working at preschools these days don't have patience with kids anymore and not wanting my son to be treated like an outcast I made every attempt that I could to address his behavior concerns at school. As I told the director, I was trying and they had to be blind not to see that. The school on the other hand made little attempt to assist my son with his transition and he learned nothing while there. Of all the mornings I stayed with him he was called ONCE to small center time with the teacher. I really hate to say this but it felt like she didn't want to be bothered with him and if I felt that way then my son was probably no different. My son is his best self when he feels loved. He's needy in that department. He likes hugs and needs to feel loved to do well. Never let people make you feel like you don't know your kids both positive and negative. I'm aware and I needed this school to be a school. ALL stages of development are important. My son has only been in this world for 4 years and i'm no longer burdening him with the crazy expectations placed on young kids (be good but I don't have time to teach you. Just know how & fast). I'm going to skip the preschool system and work with him in other ways as I was doing before I enrolled him here. Thank God he's a sponge and quick learner. He really loves to learn. He will get to where he needs to be with no help from this institution. As someone who has worked at an exceptional Montessori school in a different state I will NEVER understand preschools who give up on 4 year olds. I was made to feel like my kid was so abnormal when I know he's not because there were kids in his class just like him plus my years of working with kids I knew better. I knew some kids are just more difficult than others and that doesn't make them awful. I felt so bad I started to use terms like "maybe he's on the spectrum". Shame on me for that! This was definitely a rant but I paid a lot of wasted money for this opinion so there it is.

Amazing preschool! Not only does the school offer 24/7 schedule for families that work overnight or…read moreon weekends. But the teachers and staff are so loving and feel like family. They use a STEM curriculum and a 1:5 teacher/student ratio. There is NO other school like it in the area.

Above and Beyond has been a blessing to our lives. You can't find this anywhere else. Quality care,…read moreaffordable, best hours, 5 to 1 ratio, and most important a loving owner and staff. Above and Beyond is the perfect mix between a franchise daycare and an in-home daycare. They have given me the best gift EVER, peace of mind knowing that my son is in a safe, loving, and enriched environment. At my sons previous daycare, he cried almost everyday at drop-off. Two weeks after switching to Above and Beyond he stopped crying at drop-off..... That speaks for itself.

I have trusted the staff at Creative World with my son since he was 12 weeks old. From day one, I…read morehave been completely impressed. I get daily updates and many pictures through the week. The teachers truly pay attention to the development of the children, which is so important to me. I had a teacher conference when my son was less than a year old to go over his developmental milestones and areas to work on! My mother is a retired speech and language pathologist who worked in the school system. She has always said how impressed she is at how engaged all of the children are no matter what time of day she is there. The level of interaction helps develop language, which she sees with my son at home. The amount of work they put into the children and their development is exemplary. From the front desk to the kitchen, everyone knows my son, not just his name, but they REALLY know him! Just this weekend, he could tell me animal sounds for animals I've never taught him about! Not only that, but he can understand and respond in English and Spanish, some of the Spanish I don't even know! At almost two, my son is happy and thriving. Being a working mother, it is hard to leave your baby every day. But, I know that he is in the great and capable hands of people that love him and are truly there to teach and inspire him and I couldn't ask for more!

Creative world in Avalon park was one of the worst mistakes I could have made. The management team…read morewas disrespectful and unprofessional. One of many prime examples could consist of: talking negatively about families behind their backs, or with other employees. The management team was also biased towards workers and students. You clearly could see favoritisms, and strong dislikes. One employee may get in trouble for being on their phone, while others get away with it day in and day out. One child may be targeted for a possible delay in development, while other children with severe behavioral troubles are overlooked, not given guidance to get the right help. Frustrations amongst the management team were often taken out on the employees which hindered their abilities to give the children the quality care they deserve. Creative world Avalon park is all about money. They enroll too many children at times, so they don't have to turn somebody away and lose out. Therefore that would lead to full rooms and sometimes being too short staffed, often resulting in the children having to be shuffled to a different room, leaving the kids with no stability. You may drop off in one room but that doesn't mean that's where a child stays all day. There was a child, way to young for a classroom, still on bottles, who had to sit at the table to have the bottle instead of being held, and having that one on one social interaction. This was all due to being over full in the proper room this child belonged in, and being shuffled to a higher aged room. Furthermore, what the parents ask or want is mostly a no go. Parents don't have a say if their child is on a bottle come a certain room, if their child still uses a pacifier or lovey, that all stops in certain rooms regardless of the parents want, or what comforts the child. Management was also lazy at times, not giving their full effort towards the daycares proper functioning. Examples could include: times passing by in the main lobby, where management was either on their phone, or sitting making beaded bracelets. Another example, even on extra short staffed days, it was far and few in between you'd pass by a classroom and see management step up and into a classroom to help it run a bit more smoothly. This daycare holds no value. The employees deserve a non toxic, supportive, stable environment and creative world Avalon park does not offer that. Children also deserve these same things and then some, in order to have the quality care they deserve, which is often hard to be fulfilled due to the treatment and emotions caused by management. The number of people that left creative world, or un-enrolled their children, is plentiful, and that is only the tip of the iceberg. I highly recommend looking further than the friendly smiles that greet you at the door when you walk into creative world Avalon park. There's better out there.

This daycare center is sincerely unrecommended. I have made a concerted effort, for a great amount…read moreof time, to overlook the numerous issues faced at this daycare, but I can no longer see myself being able to move past them all. A vastly overvalued establishment with one hand on your wallet and the other in the air affording you the opportunity to view its middle finger. I have had multiple experiences where I have personally witnessed the titular "teachers" raising their voice towards my child, unaware that I was within proximity to them. The turnover rate of these younger individuals, meant to care for the children, is incredibly high. My child has expressed to me that some of her "teachers" are "mean" to her and make her "sad". Please, spend your hard earned money elsewhere and trust your precious little pride and joy with someone who may actually care about them. We have had a nearly exclusively horrid experience at this location.

The level of care, community and love staff has is nice to have. Our son use to have a very hard…read moretime attending every morning, staff knew how to calm him down and were patient. They love to do a lot of activities with the children and parents. Our son graduated from VPK program , the level of thought they put throughout his school year to present us parents at graduation was amazing. I love the owner and her staff.