Ms. Rena's Preschool is where you want your child to be. My oldest daughter started here when she…read morewas 15 months and all 3 of my kids have flourished here. Ms. Rena and her staff are caring, patient, and genuinely invested in each child's growth. Her daily schedule balances education and play perfectly and her communication with the parents is amazing. This preschool is a warm, safe, and loving environment that all of my kids have considered a second home. We couldn't recommend this place more!

Absolutely love Ms. Rena, her staff and family! I truly can not say enough wonderful things about…read morethem! My son is 3 and you should see his workbooks! Learning so much not just academically but but Personal growth as well, kindness and respect and so much more. I am thankful everyday that my son goes there, he has such a good time with the staff and all his little friends. I only wish he could stay there forever!! So incredibly happy thank you Ms. Rena, Ms. Vicki , Ms. Evelyn and Ms. Kathy

This is a great place to send your kids to. I have been bringing my kids here for over 7 years. I…read morehave never had any issues frim the staff. They work the kids that are troublesome even my son. If i had a problem it is always addressed. I love this place. Ms. Felicia is awsome and will go above and beyond for her kids. Ms Erica the director at the ash location is very awsome she works hard to make sure they are up to great standards. The staff takes care of their students as if they were their own. I would strongly recommend this place.

Ms. Felicia (owner) has a heart of gold! What she cares most about is that the children are safe…read moreand having fun. She assures that her teachers are doing their jobs well.

I can't say enough great things about our time at Adventureland. From the moment we toured with…read moreMrs. Kiki, and from our very first day, we felt reassured that this was a safe place for our son to grow and thrive. Our son's teachers (Ms. Diana, Mrs. Kiki and Ms. Julissa) truly cared about our son and were always so patient and kind with him and us. Every single pick up and drop off we were greeted warmly by his teachers who always appeared genuinely happy to be there. Just really good energy from the staff and students. Our son grew and developed so much during the last several months thanks to Adventureland and we are sincerely sad to move on.

Adventureland is amazing! My boys attended Adventureland for 4 years and had a truly wonderful…read moreexperience there. Being small and (previously) premature 2 year olds, I was really apprehensive about starting preschool but they were so well loved and cared for by Miss Kiki and all the other great teachers that I was soon at ease. The outdoor playground is huge and my boys loved playing the the sand and riding tricycles and the classrooms as clean and well equipped. I'm so thankful for Adventureland!

I have gone there. I have called there several times to get my granddaughter in the preschool…read morecenter and nobody ever answers the door or the phone. Did they close down or are they still there? There's a car in front SUV but nobody ever opens the door. I live right around the corner. That's why I was choosing this area. I go buy it every day. I've been living here seven years. It said opening soon a year ago.

We had decided to enroll our son into Tender Loving Care Preschool last November and we are so glad…read morewe did. They are so good at updating parents with how your child has done for the day. The learning and curriculum here is amazing. We have noticed such a difference in our sons speech since he's been here. They really do make learning fun and he really enjoys going to school everyday. They have spirit weeks which is great as a parent that likes to send goodies. I highly recommend Tender Loving Care Preschool.

Our kid started at the preschool here years ago, and it's been such a great experience. It also…read moreprepared our kid really well for Kindergarten! It's a wonderful school with amazing teachers! My kid enjoys it so much that sometimes it's hard to get him to leave at the end of the day, which has always made me feel good about the decision to go here. The school director, Lori has always been kind and helpful. She's also easy to get a hold of to ask questions through the app the school uses for signing in& out, and for communication. The summer school they offer is a great way for kids to play with their friends over the summer, instead of just vegging out in front of the tv while you get stuff done. :) The preschool has many flexible options regarding days per week, and half or full days. Our kid enjoyed it so much, including going to chapel once a week with his class, and getting to know Pastor Bob, and Rachel who is Director of Youth and Care Ministries, that the family started attending church here in 2025. We're still getting to know people here at the church, but from the very beginning this congregation has made us feel SO welcomed. The people here are authentic, and the love they have for Jesus is real. Coming to church here gives us the warm happy feelings, sort of like when we'd go visit extended family we really like. Between the 2 morning services on Sunday, there's adult bible study led by the Pastor, while the kids attend their own Sunday school. We enjoy the Bible study so much that we're planning on joining the Wednesday ones as well. You can go to their website and find all the events and times. Throughout the year, the church offers a Foundations class that can be helpful to new members, and is a great place to learn what the church believes & practices, as well as a good time to ask questions and get to know the Escondido & San Marcos campus Pastors Bob & Matt. Both Pastors are wonderful! Pastor Bob is mainly at the Escondido campus. We really like how he teaches from the Bible, and how he explains things. He's thoughtful, has a good sense of humor, humble, and ISN'T some righteous preacher talking down to the congregation, like I've unfortunately experienced at some other churches throughout my life. I can be quite shy when faced with a large group of people I don't know, which is why for so many years after moving back to the area to be near family we never attended any church. That's why I'm so grateful to this wonderful preschool, that lead us to this beautiful church. My family and I highly recommend Community Lutheran Church and Preschool, especially to those who want to attend church but might be nervous to try a new place.

This church has an excellent music, director and choirs. They all really do well with singing…read more Adult choirs children, singing a true focus on the gospel of Christ, the forgiveness of sins. Excellent preaching and teaching by the two pastors. You cannot go wrong by attend insurance. Here you will be amazed about how true true the gospel. The word of God is teach and preached here. I recommend this church to everyone. Timothy Zank.

My daughter is graduating this year she's been in this daycare since she was a baby. She has had…read moreamazing teachers all throughout her years.

I've sent my children to Childrens Paradise for the past 5 years. Unfortunately, I'm my opinion the…read morecommunication, care and safety have gone down dramatically. I pulled my child immediately after learning the water bottle which we sent in for him was full of mold. After COVID the center encouraged families to send in water bottles and told us they would be washing them. The center lied and said they never told us they were going to wash it but they should have been sending the water bottles home every week. After someone from the main office investigated, we were told the teacher did wash the water bottles once per week. Look at the pictures... my chickens drink from a cleaner water source. If this is a clean water bottle I question the cleaning and sanitation of everything in that facility. It also infuriates me that the teachers continuously opened and filled this water bottle and gave it to my son. It smells, is full of mold, and is filthy. I am a teacher and would never allow this for anyones child. There is also no communication about your child's day or what items they need. Also, the centers main door is constantly being left open for the public to walk in and the door code is visible to the public. I want my children to be in a secure facility. Children's Paradise in my opinion is a reactive company not proactive. As a parent and educator , I no longer trust them not watch my children and would never recommend this daycare to anyone.

Not sure what happened here, bad teacher or just a bad school. My son became quite and withdrawn,…read moretotally abnormal behavior. He's four and learned NOTHING!!! Now he goes to a private school and in the past two months he can count to 50, say his vowels, he knows the alphabet by site and the list goes on. My daughter was fine, but she's two. .

This is a low to middle income joint, so it's not like a lot of us have a lot of choice on where to…read moretake our children, but if you can, avoid this place at all costs. They're already in trouble with the daycare licencing board (you can search the SD Tribune for the neglect that's going on there) and they're still just as negligent, despite continually claiming that they're "improving." My child has been bit more times than I can count. At one point, they said she had at 1:00 (one person said the morning) she had a fever and, in their words, "a scarily fast heartbeat," but they didn't call me until 2:30. They didn't think a child with a pre-existing condition (asthma) experiencing tachycardia and a fever was an urgent matter, apparently. She's come home with scratches all over her face. Her incident report said they were noticed when they were on the way back to the classroom and that she was observed playing with branches earlier. When I asked the next day why they would let her play with branches without watching her (she was 18-months-old) they changed their story to she ran into child-sized bushes and they saw it happened. It's horrible. This place is horrible. I wish I had the money to take her to a better place, a safer place. But I don't. And even though these guys are on probation, even though they continue to get citations, it's not likely they'll close down. So what will we have? Just kids that continue to get hurt. What's it going to take, ECCDC? What's it going to take for you to change and care? Clearly nothing. EDIT: The morning after I wrote this, they terminated her without warning. I was late to drop her off (9:30) and said that although she had breakfast, she'd probably be hungry. They told me that breakfast was from 9-9:30, so I had to go down to the kitchen, which was fine. And then the director Jim stopped me while we were waiting for food. He told me that he was "disturbed" by my post (meaning Yelp review) last night and so he was in the process of terminating Athena's contract. I said that I just felt like I wrote the truth and that they were negligent and changed their stories in many instances where my daughter got injured. He then told me I was negligent because I left her there - uh, ok. And then he changed the story that it was because they couldn't meet meet my daughter's needs or my expectations (of her having any supervision at all?). He also says that this happens at EVERY daycare, which I know to be not true since I'm not the only mom I know. And then he told me that they were on probation because of "people like you" who continue to report incidents to licensing. He also said I was "hiding behind social media" despite my many face-to-face meetings with teachers, him, and other staff to solve the problem of my child getting beat up by other kids and coming home with unreported bites and scratches. So, we'll no longer be going there because I wrote a negative yelp review telling the truth about their absolute lack of supervision and poor decision making. Time to find a better daycare, because I know they're out there. Julie (front desk), Robert (front desk), Sam (supervisor), and teacher Nikki are the highlights of this place. May they find better places to work. I appreciate their kindness towards me and Athena. They did their best with a daycare organization with many, many problems. To the anonymous poster, "Germaine," there weren't children on the playground at the time. Yes, I did say "bullshit" and I was upset. I'm sure you would be, too, if your child who had been neglected and beat up at daycare and was terminated suddenly because of a yelp review on a day you had to work. That's cool that the daycare is working out for you - really, I'm glad - but to name me personally when you haven't walked a day in mine or my daughter's shoes and act like you know what's going on is, well, a little odd. Also, hi, Jim.

Wonderful school. We love that they offer pre-K through high school, so the kids aren't losing all…read morethe friend's they make between elementary, middle, & high school. The kiddo has also really been enjoying the additional Elementary classes outside of the regular classroom, such as music, art, P.E., & chapel. The elementary school has a fun new playground. The kids also enjoy checking out what's growing in the garden! Highly recommend for Christian families!

I went to Calvin from 6th grade up to 10th grade, before finally opting to transfer to a nearby…read morecharter school. Calvin is a small school. It has grown, but it's still small. There are benefits, of course, such as small class sizes, individualized attention, and open dialogue between teachers and students. However, it also has its downsides. Please look at this list of criteria (created by me): Is your child considered "troublesome"? Is your child struggling with any sort of mental health issue? Is your child not Dutch/Caucasian? Is your child not a teacher's pet? Is your child not often a popular kid? If you answered yes to any of those questions, Calvin is not the place for you. I am not a troublesome student. I graduated high school with a 4.11 GPA. I got A's in almost all my classes no matter what school. However, I did struggle with my mental health starting freshman year, which is ultimately the reason I left the school. I received the label of being a "depressed kid" and was never able to shake it, and I ended up taking that on as my identity. I transferred to get a fresh start from the teachers and the students, and I did much better once I didn't have that label following me. There isn't blatant racism at this school, but in my class all the Dutch girls sat together, and all the non-Dutch girls sat elsewhere during lunch. I am not Dutch, so I sat elsewhere. The Dutch girls didn't say you couldn't sit with them but weren't welcoming to any newcomers in their group. There were no other friend groups in that grade. That's also pretty much how it went for every grade. Calvin has diversified since then, but the saying "if you ain't Dutch, you ain't much" is well-known and I would say it is true. All the Dutch students were favorited by the teachers as well, but that's because most of the Dutch kids had their parents go to school there, so they were really just "legacy" students who were automatically favorited. The trick for getting good grades is to be a teacher's pet. If the teacher doesn't like you, you're screwed. I was a teacher's pet, and I was able to finagle my way out of several bad grades by gaining sympathy from the teachers. If you're not a teacher's pet, Dutch, or a popular kid, you're going to have to do a LOT of hard work to get good grades that other kids get simply by having parents who went to the school. Most of the teachers were amazing. Shout-out to Mr. Marriott, Mr. Bakker, Mr. VDP, Mr. Beutlich, Mrs. Lapka, and Mrs. Lundgren. They made learning fun and were genuinely such kind-hearted people. I always felt safe around them. However, as with every school, there are teachers that aren't great. The history teacher, when I was trying to explain my ADHD to him in regard to the accommodations plan I had, just kept telling me, "Oh, it's like my tinnitus". He also refused to accept my accommodations plan to break up a 100-question test into two parts. When my mom reached out, he told her that the class has a B average, she's never taken the class, and would I be receiving a modified diploma? I took an incomplete for this class and retook it my senior year at my new school. I got an A+. Also, they do present that 100% of their students go off to college. However, that's not actually true. I had a friend who ended up faking that she was going to go to college (she wasn't) so that it would look like she was in the graduation ceremonies. They even got her college merch from the college she was supposedly going to attend. I would have never known had I not been close friends with her. This school has its secrets. Teachers were quietly removed from the school for reasons that were pretty big deals, such as inappropriate communication with students and emotional outbursts at students. As for the principal. I thought he was great... because my beliefs aligned with his and he took pity on me. Yes, he does meet with students with the blinds open for all to see. We once all saw a student get his backpack searched for drugs in the office. Whether or not he had drugs, the blinds should have been closed. His office is in a common passing place so everybody can and will see. The principal seemed to like me a lot, so we got along and I liked him, but I can see how others wouldn't like him. He is adamantly anti-LGBTQ+, which can be expected at a Christian school, but he expressed this in an unkind way. God still loves those that are LGBTQ+ and this principal did not express that. Last thing! I hope your kid loves public speaking. My class had to give 7-10 minute speeches with no notes... apparently, this is not a thing in public schools, and my class was graded quite harshly. Anxiety was not tolerated. It's good to learn public speaking, but 10 minute speeches without notes on subjects kids aren't passionate about? That's harsh, especially for sophmores. This was for sophmore year. I am ultimately glad I left this school, but I believe others can thrive here... just check that checklist!

Jenny and Sonya have been my twins teacher since they were 9 months old so when they first started…read moreI was a little nervous because my baby girl is very attached to me so she cried a lot at drop off so I would check in all the time and they never got annoyed with me lol. They both would tell me what they ate, when they napped and for how long. My babies are always clean and have a dry diaper at pick up. I am at ease knowing my children are loved and well taken care of in a safe, loving environment. Developmentally they are both on track and I have no doubt the center is meeting their emotional, social and intellectual needs. They will be so ready for preschool and kindergarten. Thank you Sonya, Jenny, Erica and Raven for being a big part of my children's lives!

I was very nervous about day care for my daughter I looked into a couple places and none of them…read morefelt right when I came across A Place Of Our Own I decided to give them a try and I'm glad I did, Ms Erika was the first person I met she was very kind, friendly and very helpful. Then I got to meet the rest of the staff and they were all the same every time I walk into A Place Of Our Own we are greeted with smiles. Also they are quick to help with any questions or Concerns you may have. On top of all these great experiences I've had with APO my daughter loves it there! and that's what's important to me as a mom. I would recommend this place to all the parents looking for child care