My daughter attended Wonder World just shy of a year, and started when she was 5.5 months old. She stopped attending last June, when we abruptly pulled her from care at Wonder World after many conversations with Mina and Ali and realizing how they were regularly caring for more kids than they are licensed for.
Their facility maximum capacity at the house on Valerio St is 14. I noticed more kids than the license allows and my concerns and pointed questions were always brushed aside or I was quickly told "14" with no other conversation. Ali even told me that my ratio count of "babies" was wrong because the age range to be considered a baby is 18 months and under (it's not, it's 24 months and under). So, he either doesn't know the regulations for his business, or, he intentionally lied to me.
**My tip for ANY parent checking out any care facility is to ask for the license number and look up any time they've been cited online and what it was for. Then you can decide if you are okay with the citation reason or not. My concerns about the number of kids in their care were brought up directly to both Mina and Ali multiple times in June, and the following is from August, two months after they knew it was a problem, and clearly nothing was done: https://www.ccld.dss.ca.gov/transparencyapi/api/FacilityReports?facNum=197493791&inx=2 (TL;DR, they were cited for having 18 kids in their care)
In one of our last conversations, when I asked Mina if she could only have the number of children she was licensed for the following day, she could not give me a straight answer, so we withdrew my daughter early and she stopped attending that day.
I know they mean well and they truly care for the kids, however, this was not the place for us as following child safety licensing guidelines is a non-negotiable.
Edited to add: The person who commented below is Ali, one of the business owners. It's sad and frustrating to me that they are still not taking accountability. I am attaching a picture of my daughter's first birthday at the school, posted on their instagram account, which is a private account that only families who have kids attending there have access to. I am pointing at the camera and Ali is the adult on the right side of the photo. I'll leave you to make your own conclusions. All you have to do is count the number of kids in these photo. (My son does not count as he did not attend there). You can look up the citation yourself too: https://www.ccld.dss.ca.gov/carefacilitysearch/ License number: 197493791 . The citation they received shortly after I pulled my daughter from their care is linked in my post above. read more