My daughter has been seeing Sandra now for two months and has already made some great strides…read more After only the very first meeting, we had learned some great tips from Sandra that had an immediate impact on a couple of areas she struggles with on a daily basis. Since then, my daughter looks forward to her weekly session, and has been gaining in confidence and enthusiasm in the classroom. Sandra is truly an integral part of my daughter's team - working closely with us (her parents), her teacher, an my daughter -- valuing her as a person and helping her to recognize and utilize her talents. I feel lucky that we have found Sandra!

Sandra is great with teens! My daughters wanted to write their college essays over the summer…read morebefore senior year. Sandra offered a package of four sessions to workshop their essays. She helped them brainstorm, got them on track with editing and truly finding their authentic voices. She provided the framework in which they could be their best selves, and they LOVED their sessions with her.

We moved our daughter here when she was 2 and a half years old, and we could not be happier to be…read morepart of this community of families and teachers. The Community School teachers are an amazing group of dedicated early-childhood professionals. They have creative curriculum with a good balance of play and an age-appropriate academics. There is virtually no turnover, and the teachers are great at communication with parents. The play spaces are awesome--a bike path for tricycles, an outdoor stage for dramatic play, and raised beds for a garden, which they children tend. Plus, they have catered farm-to-table lunches every day and pretty healthy snacks, too. The director is completely committed to the mission of early childhood education and making her child care center the very best that it can be. Plus, we love the families and have even made friends through the day care. It really is a community and a magical place for our daughter. We feel lucky to have found it.

We have both our kudos at the Goddard School in chapel hill. It's conveniently located if you work…read moreon UNC campus and it's a nice clean facility... however the reason for the 5 stars is the TEACHER. They are all so fantasti! Ms. Michelle and Ms. Jamie and Ms. Shiniqua are so good with our 4 month old- it feels like she's with a family member. they know so much about child development and she's learning so much! our Toddler is also obsessed and painting, learming colors, sign language and more with Ms. Tonya and Ms. Dianna and Ms. Stella completely potty trained him in a week

Unfortunately this facility did not have the best communication skills and was very limited in the…read moreway that we were supposed to be helped.

As a family of two busy professionals, I'm not quite sure how we'd have gotten by with a newborn if…read morenot for Suzi at Nurtured Baby. Flexibility with early morning drop-offs and later pick-ups has been a godsend. Our daughter has been at NB for over a year now and loves it. She happily runs in every day, is warmly greeted, and then sits down to a delicious all-organic breakfast. I know because parents are welcomed to take part in the spread as well! The small group size, high caregiver-to-baby ratio, and mixed age philosophy has been wonderful for our daughter. She comes home every day clean and happy, having learned new words, songs, and activities from her caretakers and baby pals. She even asks (...constantly...) where her NB friends are - and I couldn't ask for a better review. As for negative reviews on this site: NB is a group of ~8 families, and I know all the other parents there. I do not recognize those reviewers; they have never used NB to my knowledge. The fact that both accounts have written just one review and were created on the same day is suspicious, to say the least.

Suzi and the staff at Nurtured Baby are absolutely wonderful! Our son has been going to Suzi for…read morealmost 2 years (since he was around 5 months old). We could not be happier with her program. I know that he is very well cared for and loved at Suzi's (and he loves going!). Nurtured Baby is so much more than a traditional daycare. The space is a beautiful and inviting home environment. She has a very low teacher to child ratio and offers day/time flexibility(!). Organic foods. Non toxic products. Learning through play. I honestly didn't think we'd find such a wonderful place. I'm very grateful for Suzi and her staff. Balancing work and family isn't always easy, especially at first, but Suzi has certainly helped us along the way. We will forever be thankful to have found Suzi.

lovely daycare, always smiling faces when you walk in ! would definitely recommend other parents to…read morecheck this daycare out !

Who wouldn't want their kid to learn Spanish and receive childcare at the same time?…read more Spanish for Fun Academy is one of a couple spanish immersion daycares in the area. The staff are all native spanish speakers who provide childcare for babies to pre-K at their building conveniently located near UNC on S Columbia (hours 7:30-5:30 M-F). My child has been going here for over a year and has been picking up spanish fairly quickly. It is like having eight hours of spanish lessons every day. It also seems to be a good sign that many of the parents who bring their children here have been doing so since they were babies. Not a lot of turnover. The teachers are all very friendly and loving and speak enough english to communicate with all the non-spanish speaking parents. While the actual classroom spaces are somewhat small (hence only four stars), there is a very large fenced play area in back (el parque) where the kids go to romp and play once or twice a day when it isn't raining. Typically they'd be outside 4:00-5:30 in the afternoon. Quite frequently if I happen to show up for pickup on the early side, I'll end up waiting a while because the kids don't want to stop playing with each other.

My 2yo son was at SFF for a month after we moved to NC from OH. We decided to look for a new…read moredaycare for him the first week he was in SFF. I gave them 3 stars instead of 2 because the teachers were so caring for him. I think that if you have never experienced other daycares before and your child is not as high-energy as my youngest, then SFF might be okay for you. The daycare my son had in OH was outstanding, so I think in contrast SFF had some room for improvement. Here are my thoughts regarding pros and cons. Pro - Obviously your child learns Spanish, which has a plethora of benefits. - The teachers are very caring and they put him with a bi-lingual primary teacher since he just speaks English, as do my husband and I. - There is a diverse socioeconomic range of students/families. I value this because I worry about my kids being around only affluent people living in Chapel Hill. Cons - As one of the other reviewers said, they have them in a small room most of the day. There is a huge garden area for them to play, but they essentially have no play equipment other than some bikes. They have a small playset, but it is taped off and can not be used. So what I observed with my son while he was there was basically him just milling around. He could have dug in dirt and climbed on the stage, but most of the time he was just wandering around aimlessly because there were so many kids he couldn't really run-- and he loves to run! - In the classroom it seemed like a lot of free play. Which is important, but in the entire time he was there, my son never produced any artwork except a cup for father's day. At his other daycare he was daily coloring, painting or doing art projects, which he loves. I saw the teacher read once to small group of students, but other than that, I just see my son milling around when I look in the room before I pick him up. I am not sure they have any sort of curriculum. This is really why I looked elsewhere for care. If my son is not busy and bored most of the day, it is impossible to wear him down as night. We'll take him to the park and play/interact with him at home, but he has so much physical and intellectual energy (e.g. needs to paint, needs to build something or be stimulated in some fashion) that it is crippling when you are trying to do things like make dinner, clean up around the house or interact with my other son because my 2yo will just breakdown (and we are not push overs). At his OH daycare we had a teacher who was only there for a short time who did no activities with him and he had the same behavior as he did while he was at SFF. This is fairly specific to my son, although I think it is not uncommon for young kids, and especially boys to be this high energy. - My son had a black eye that I noticed on pick up. It was difficult to identify what happened and I am used to the other daycare that filed an incident report anytime a child was hit in the head or had a significant injury. - With other the OH daycare they have a daily sheet that discusses things like what they did that day or how they ate (e.g. ate everything, some...). SFF does not have this and it made it difficult to understand what if anything my son was doing in the day and if he was just really hungry (which he ALWAYS was when I picked him up) or didn't like his lunch that day. - The parking and just getting in and out of the center is difficult. There are not enough spaces after the staff parks and usually only the handicap spaces are free. They need to repair their parking area. Overall, we really liked the immersion and a lot of the benefits of the center, but these benefits were not really enough to have our son mill around all day. It just didn't work for us.

warning: only use this service if you want unreliable, undependable, and unavalable childcare to…read moreensure your most precious thing in your life is left standing at unopened doors when you have paid several weeks in advance for services they cannot render!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if no stars were available that is what i would rate this place. as i have to at least provide one to make a review, i am doing the minimum possible to ensure other families are not in the same conundrum that i am in at this time. i sent this to management today, 6/26/26, 9:40am via email given there is absolutely no alternatives to contact anyone when you arrive and they are not there: i request to be contacted by management immediately. this is unacceptable, completely unprofessional, and cannot be. i have had so much respect for the mission and vision of this operation since my son was born in 2019. knowing that we are trusting our children - our priceless treasures with you all, has been supreme in choosing to continually book services. that trust has been 100%, irrevocably broken. this is the third time since camp started last week that staff has been late. this is the first and the last time, however that no staff was present to receive my child at 8am or the other children and parents standing along the sidewalk. at 8:20 no phone response. no emails. no phone calls. absolutely nothing on facebook or instagram or the website. no sign. no update. nothing! no phone response. no alternatives for contact but the phone number on the door at the front desk where no one is! i arrived, as usual at 7:45, waited and continued to wait for opening. i come from pittsboro to chapel hill to cary everyday!!!!! at 8:24 i left and families were still waiting and i refused to continue this debaucle. i paid several full weeks in full and in advance to ensure my child would have the best care and the best summer experience while i am not available. i am, now, forced to pay double somewhere else safe for today that i trust to make it to work over an hour late! i backtracked! i lost time and gas and all respect for this place. i have just lost all probability to continue in a new position at work given this occurences at the start of a new job. i request full refund for time not used, including today. i am furious and disgusted that i trusted you all to make good on your services. i will never use, recommend, or do business with this organization again. i am not a person that posts like this, but this is absolutely essential for any parent considering this childcare option, camp, or service. do not do it!

Over $100 a day at 5 days a week is overpriced, especially for a daycare that lacks…read moreprofessionalism. This place is disorganized, the staff is non chalant, and their prices change based on who's paying. I paid less for 12 hrs then I paid for 8 hrs. I asked the staff 3-4 times is this all of my sons belongings they assured me it was, only to get home and find out his 2 toys he bought along with him were missing, also his shoes were missing. Staff said it fell out his book bag. The staff did not care that I had to fight thru rush hour traffic after working a 16 hr shift just to double back for my son's belongings. Do better, people work too hard to have their belongings go missing. (His mom drops him off and I pick him up, idk what he arrives at the daycare with.)

Don't recommend. The…read moreteachers are sitting in the shade chilling while children burn themselves on the hot slide. Director is not welcoming. Her huge diamond demonstrates the center's values - money - not children, teachers, or families.

Love this place and the environment. Every teacher knows each child's name, the atmosphere is warm…read more, loving , laid back, the parents and staff has such great relationships. The teaches really do love the kids and even though every day is not sunshine and smiles they always give their best and make the parents feel comfortable with their child there. Great place. Definitely recommend