Just started year 4, second child at Pac Heights Kidz, and we absolutely love it!…read more I don't think I've ever experienced more fear and anxiety in my life than dropping off my first child for his first day of preschool. He'd been nothing but glued to us for the first two years of his life, and now I'm handing him over to strangers? Doesn't feel right. There's no way they're going to be able to care for him and love him as much as we do! And... how are they going to get them to nap?? Welp, Nisha, Marinelle, and the whole team at Pac Heights Kidz come closer than I ever could have imagined. And they get them to nap. Not sure how, but they do. They are seasoned, professional, communicative, and incredibly loving childcare providers. From day one, they've made sure our whole family feels comfortable. They constantly communicate the events of the day through the app and regularly post pictures of your child so you can see their day and the smiles! It's great for a little break from work when you need a mental uplift. The first week is hard. There are tears. By the end of the second week, they're walking in on their own. No tears. Comfortable. My 3yo is in his second year now and loves his teachers. My 5yo, who just started kindergarten, misses his teachers and friends. He started at Pac Heights Kidz, went for two years, and then transitioned to Nature Kidz, their sister program. He genuinely looked forward to going to school! I cried at pickup on his last day because they've had such a positive and memorable impact on his life and mine. One of the best parts is seeing your child learn and grow. My oldest was extremely well prepared for kindergarten. He writes his name while holding his pencil correctly, knows all of his uppercase and lowercase letters, draws amazing pictures, knows the sounds of each letter, is starting to grasp early math, understands taking turns and sharing, and knows how to act appropriately in a classroom setting. They have an incredible emphasis on art, music, and dance. And more than anything, they focus on fun. When it comes time to start thinking about kindergarten, they'll hold your hand through that extremely confusing and important process. They've helped place their kids at many of the best schools in the city (public and private) and have incredible relationships with the leaders at those schools. I cannot recommend Pac Heights Kidz and Nature Kidz more highly. Our experience with them has been outstanding, and the care and love at the heart of their team permeates through every single person there. Dropping your child off for that first day can feel terrifying. Looking back four years later, I can't imagine having trusted anyone else with ours.

We LOVE Nature Kids program that lets kids learn outside all day. Our son, 3 now, has been with…read morethem for over a year and we can sense the deep enrichment he is getting, plus he is so excited to go to school everyday! This has been a fantastic program for our early childhood enrichment and we can't recommend them enough.

Sharon is wonderful. She took care of our daughter for almost two years, from 3 months to just shy…read moreof two. With every parents' day to day list of things to do, having that professional no-worry daycare is a blessing. Warm, patient, very clean space, and fun. Highly recommended.

Sharon and her assistant, Yo-yo, have taken care of both of my children over the past two years…read more They are wonderful, devoted caregivers that genuinely love babies and toddlers. My children adore them. My 9 month old squeals with happiness when he hears Sharon's voice on the intercom each morning. Sharon is very focused on the basics (good naps, full feedings) and both my kids sleep better and are more regulated under her care. Sharon manages to be both laid back, and very careful and attentive, at the same time. Sharon has transformed my experience of being a mother and I am so grateful to her. We love you, Sharon!

We had a fantastic experience with Golden Gate Nannies. Their team is professional, responsive, and…read moretruly experts at childcare matching. They saved us so much time by handling the screening and interview scheduling. We found an incredible part time caregiver through them and couldn't be happier.

Can't say enough good things about Golden Gate Nannies and Shea. Shea took the time to really…read moreunderstand our family needs and dynamics, which made all the difference. She didn't just rush us through a questionnaire - she listened carefully and asked thoughtful questions to truly get what would work for our unique situation. The candidates she found for us were outstanding, head and shoulders above the typical people we found ourselves. Each person was thoroughly vetted, professional, and perfectly aligned with what we were looking for. It was honestly hard to pick between the final three candidates, all of whom were outstanding. Shea helped us make informed and wise decisions at key moments, providing guidance when we needed it most. Her expertise was invaluable! We are thrilled to have worked with Shea and would strongly recommend her to anyone looking for a top-flight nanny.

This is a wonderful culturally diverse experience for pre-schoolers... The staff is experienced and…read morein many cases Bi-lingual. They will be opening a new building in addition to the beautiful Julia Morgan Building that houses the school now... A great experience for students and parents alike. Mary I.

Our daughter has being a part of the Nihonmachi Little Friends for 3 1/2 years, and our son started…read moretheir preschool half a year ago. They both love NLF so much! We are moving out of SF, but this program was one of the biggest reasons why we stayed in the city for so long. We have created wonderful memories and build wonderful friendships here. The teachers are AMAZING. I cannot tell you how kind, sweet and caring they are to all of the kids. The programs are fabulous and I cannot express enough gratitude and love for this program. Don't hesitate to register your kids here one bit!

Our daughter attends Montessori school and we are so happy with her care. Everyday when we pick her…read moreup, she's happy and smiley. The teachers share information about her day everyday when we pick her up and let us know of her development and milestones. We already had experience with the school since our teenage nephew and niece also attended the school as infants through preschool. They both loved the school and their teachers at Montessori. Several of the teachers currently there have been there since our niece and nephew attended too! We are so happy we were able to secure a spot for our baby in the school after being on the waitlist for a few months, and we are very happy with our experience with the school and our baby's care. Thank you Ms. Vasi and team!!!

Ok so I've gave this school a call around December of 2024. The lady had told me to call them by…read morethis summer to see if I could get my daughter in by August of 2025. I've decided to call them yesterday and this is what happened... 1st call: a child picks up then hangs up the phone. 2nd call: a lady with terrible English answered the phone ask for my name (after I said it 3x) and then proceeds to hang up in my face. 3rd call: the lady who I spoke with months ago (I remember her voice) answered and while I'm explaining mid sentence how I've spoken with her before and was interested in enrolling my child she then rudely cuts me off to say they are booked she took 2 more kids and to try next year. I told her she was the one who told me to call back around this time just for her to cut me off again and say their classes are smaller now due to lack of staff so try calling next year. By then I was supper pissed off so I hung up the phone. They really need to work on supervising the kids since they are clearly allowing them to play with the phones and they definitely need to work on their customer service skills. I wouldn't trust to leave my child with rude people like them.

I was very nervous to start my baby in daycare but Helen was very very helpful. She is extremely…read moreorganized, warm, and communicative and the daycare is very large, clean, with lots of new toys and things like climbing blocks, a play kitchen, and a little tent. A couple things I like: -communicative over text when my daughter was getting adjusted to being away from us, let us know how eating and sleeping we're going (she mostly contact napped/fed to sleep at home before daycare but she would sometimes nap for two hours there) -helped get her used to drinking cows milk, let us know if she wasn't eating enough so we could send familiar snacks -sets up thoughtful activities to help with motor skills -just generally feels very organized and well-run

My daughter has been attending Angel Baby Childcare since she was 3 months old and we love Helen so…read moremuch. When I drop her off, she runs inside to snuggle with Helen or one of her assistants and it's so heart-warming to know that my daughter is in such a great, loving, and safe environment. Helen has been so great at every stage of her development, as her nap schedule / food / etc. evolves over time. My daughter has a ton of allergies and Helen has been so accommodating on this. She is learning Mandarin, but Helen is great at communicating with us. We will be so so sad to leave if/when we move away.

My daughter has been attended the preschool program at CCFC's Marcus Garvey campus for over three…read moremonths and I would recommend it to anyone! The teachers genuinely love and care for the children and provide a nurturing and encouraging atmosphere every single day. The school is one large open space divided into 3-and 4 year-old classes. While the facilities are not brand new, they are very well maintained and always orderly. The curriculum is play-based. The drawbacks: currently no on-site outdoor play area. We've had to move on to another school due to some logistical issues, but I want to thank the staff for their excellent care and for making my daughter's first preshool experience one to remember.

Mary Patricio is the owner of Mary's Little Lambs, LLC. She hires caregivers to provide in-home…read morecare for seniors and has been operating this business without a home care agency license for two years, which is illegal in the state of California. She also works as a caregiver herself without a license, which is illegal in the state of California. In 2024, I informed my brother that Mary was illegally not paying her employees overtime, and running her business without the license. My brother fired her and hired an agency to provide caregivers to my dad for the last year of his life. In my opinion, she was emotionally abusive of her employees, and they were too afraid to say anything about it, to me or my brother, because they were afraid of her. She fired her pregnant daughter as a caregiver for absolutely no reason related to the quality of her daughter's caregiving. She was an amazing caregiver and wanted to keep working for my dad, and her mother fired her. She also arranged the shifts so one particular caregiver that she did not like would not be able to work, instead of just outright firing her. This happened about a month before my brother terminated the contract with her and hired the agency. This caregiver was a very hard worker and an amazing caregiver. She would work nonstop on her shifts, cleaning and picking up the slack from other caregivers - including Mary, who would not complete all of her duties. The caregiver told me that Mary said to her: "Don't work so hard. Do the bare minimum." This is outrageous for an owner of a caregiving company to tell their employee. My father wanted to keep Mary on as a caregiver even after we hired the agency to do most of the shifts, I think because he had an emotional attachment to her. So she continued to work as a caregiver for my dad doing 3-4 twelve hour shifts per week. Not only was she not warm and friendly like the other caregivers, and not only did she do the bare minimum the job required each shift, but she also physically and emotionally abused my father in June of this year. He told me that she was "rough" with him, "jerked" him while helping him stand up and move around, and was "mean" to him during one of her night shifts. My dad was wheelchair bound and needed assistance standing up, walking, using the bathroom, and doing other activities of daily living - and he told me that when he asked her to help him get up out of bed and go to the kitchen, she said, "I don't think you need to do that, John," and did not help him get up. This is neglect and abuse and my father recognized it. He recognized that she was physically abusive and that how she spoke to him was emotionally abusive. However, he wanted to continue to have her work as a caregiver because he had an emotional attachment to her. He was afraid of this woman and asked me to stay overnight in his house for two nights because he was fearful of what she would do. I stayed upstairs in the guest bedroom where I could hear everything going on in his room. After that night in June, she was on her best behavior for a few months, but it didn't last long. A couple months ago my dad wanted to fire her as a caregiver (she was doing 3-4 twelve hours shifts a week) because her behavior was changing again for the worse. However, he still kept her on as his personal assistant and household manager. But two weeks before he died, he asked me to find someone to replace her for this role. I was interviewing other people right before he got sick and had to go to the hospital. He died in the hospital on December 9. At that point, my brother hired Mary to clean out the kitchen, and she removed items without my authorization and would not give them back when I asked for them. She hired her daughter, the same one she fired two years ago, to do some of the work my brother had paid her to do in my dad's house following his death. She told her daughter she would pay her $25/hour (she had asked for $30), even though the rate that they received when they were working as caregivers was $35/hour. My brother and I have asked for the notebooks that the caregivers wrote in for a year while they were working for her, and she refuses to give them to us. My brother and I are co-executors of my dad's will and trustees of his estate, and I have informed the lawyers that I do not want this individual doing any additional work to deal with my dad's possessions, and I do not want her to enter the house again. I was not going to leave a review of her or her business up until this point, but her refusal to give the notebooks has convinced me of her ill intent, and I now want to warn everybody who might hire her that she is a danger to seniors in her care. Do not hire this individual as a caregiver! She has been physically and emotionally abusive to a senior she was hired to care for and she is being hostile to me and my brother now. This is not someone you want to work for you or take care of your loved ones.

Mary's daycare is the best! Mary is the most warm and loving person I have ever met…read more I really trusted her with my son. My son learned so much at her daycare! Mary cares so much about the kids at her daycare. Once she told me 'she loves my son as he was her own'. Isn't that the best you can hear as a mom? I really recommend this daycare. She takes the kids on fiels trips, to the playground, does arts and crafts all while learning them all the stuff they need to know for Kindergarden. The place is also spotless,

We feel incredibly fortunate to have had our daughter attend Apple Tree for a short but very…read moreimpactful six months before we moved out of San Francisco. It was, without a doubt, one of the best decisions we made for her early development and happiness. From day one, we had complete confidence in Jasmine and her dedicated team. They made a thoughtful effort to ensure our daughter felt welcome during her transition into daycare--bringing her favorite toys (baby dolls) to her at drop-off to help soothe her. By the third day, she was no longer crying at drop-off and quickly began looking forward to going to school. She regularly talks about her amazing teachers--Chloe, Toni, and Ruby--and all the friends she made in her classroom. One standout example of Apple Tree's incredible attention to detail: during her very first week, they surprised us by celebrating her 2nd birthday with a cake and singing, even though she was brand new. She was absolutely beaming in the photos they shared with us. The classroom activities were varied, thoughtful and based on monthly themes. We loved receiving weekly photo updates that showed all the fun and educational things she was doing. It was clear she was thriving in this environment. A unique and helpful perk of Apple Tree is the monthly Parent's Day--offering full-day weekend drop-in care. This gave us valuable time to recharge, knowing she was in a safe and familiar space where she was happy and well-cared for. We also really appreciated the flexibility Apple Tree provided with our variable weekly schedule, allowing for earlier drop-offs when needed. Since starting at Apple Tree, our daughter's confidence and independence have blossomed. The school gently encouraged her to do things on her own--like putting on her jacket and shoes--which built her self-esteem. We started potty training over spring break, and thanks to the attentive support from her teachers, she was fully potty trained within a month. There are so many more positive things we could say about Apple Tree. We are deeply grateful for the nurturing and joyful community they created, and we feel so lucky our daughter was a part of it, even for a short time. If you're considering enrolling your child here and have any hesitations, let this review be the encouragement you need--Apple Tree is truly a gem.

We have been sending our daughter to Apple Tree for the past year and a half, since she was a baby,…read moreon the recommendation of a friend. Now as a toddler, she loves to tell us about her friends and teachers there. Jasmine and the team are very warm, experienced and communicative, and all the kids look delighted to see them each day at dropoff. They plan an amazing range of activities, usually with a fun "theme" of the week, and we've noticed at home that she picks up practical skills like tidying and putting on clothes. We also appreciate that they have a large outdoor space, and provide meals for the kids. We are very grateful and would highly recommend!

Yes I used to work there as a Assistant teacher. I did enjoyed working with the staffs that I knew…read morebefore. I love it when the school was organized on their curriculum, parents information, how they decorated the school in different holidays, how the lead teacher, and assistant teacher teaches the children well on Montessori materials. I heard the school is close. I will miss the school that I felt like a home and lots of loves

My daughter has been attending the Montessori House of Children for over two years, starting as a…read morethree year old. She has had a wonderful experience at the school and I recommend it to anyone looking for high-quality preschool. A few highlights: Great teachers. I have been very impressed by the quality of the educators at this school. My daughter's teacher, Ms. Tanja, has over 20 years experience in Montessori education, and is a delight. My daughter has a budding interest in science, nature, art, reading, and math, in large part due to this wonderful school. Flexibility. With both before-care and after care, the Montessori House of Children works well for two working couple families. Fun. My daughter loves it there. She loves the Montessori method and the friends she makes.