KDI

Our daughter started at KDI when she was 3 months old. Prior to KDI she had no schedule and refused to sleep unless she was being held. Miss Ronnie, Miss Angelica, and Miss Laura, as well as the other teachers, have been working very hard to get her to take naps in the crib. Each day I get a detailed log of her activity for the day, including how long she naps and when she has her bottles. They work on tummy time with her all day and notified me that they felt she was favoring her left side. I spoke with her Doctor and she agrees, so now we are doing specific exercises to try to even her out. KDI saw this before the doctor and had been working on this problem all along. My daughter loves everyone at school; when I drop her off each morning she is so excited and smiles ear to ear at her teachers. KDI is affordable, clean, and very easy to work with, from the perspective of a working mom. Because they are a smaller, boutique-​like center they can offer more one-​on-​one attention to the kids and as the parent you can really develop a relationship with the Director and teachers. Although my daughter doesn’t eat solids yet, I love that they have all organic meals and snacks. Though their current location lacks much green space /​outdoor play area, it is so conveniently located for the adults! It is super easy to get to with 290 East and West right there — I don’t have to deal with a lot of stop lights or congested areas during pick-​up/​drop off. It has only been a short time since my daughter started at KDI, I am very pleased and look forward to the years ahead!

My names Veronica, I’ve been a teacher since ⁴⁄₂₀₁₅. The director Laura is awesomeshe makes everyone feel needed and appreciated. All the children feel loved by the teachers. Ms. Laura is the reason that everyone stays, she’s a wonderful person and gives the teachers, parents and kids what they need. Ms. Laura goes above and beyond if she was to leave, KDI would truly loose a very valuable part of that Ctr. I hope the teachers/​owner at KDI appreciate what a great gift they have with Ms. Laurashe’s an ANGEL…

It went downhill very quickly after a sudden price increase. We, and several other families, decided to go elsewhere.
A huge price increase was sprung upon us in the middle of the year. The owner assured us that the price increase was being implemented to build a new facility and pay their workers more. Well, within a few weeks, several of their best workers had left and the turnover was tremendous. Consistency is very important for kids at this age, and they weren’t getting it. And, there still is no new facility.
Don’t get me wrong… we LOVED it when we had the great caretakers, but once they left, it just wasn’t good. The new workers are not nearly as educated or as credentialed as the old ones.
It was good while it lasted.

I have children who have been in daycare in the past so I know what it’s like to drop a child off and have them hold on to you for dear life. Not the case here, from the very first day my daughter started here she LOVED IT! I couldn’t believe it. The teachers are great and the owner is sweet as pie. I liked the fact that not just anybody can walk in, but parents can at anytime with a personalized code to check up on their children if they so please.
I especially like the flexibility In hours and the fact that whether my daughter is a drop-​in or part-​time they always send home a progress note to let me know how her day went, how much she ate and what they did throughout the day. Just wish this place would have been around when my other children were little.

We’re actually loving it at Drop in. My son has been going here for nearly 2 years and he adores the teachers and the other kids. He got off to a rough start when there was a boy there who tended to enjoy biting the other kids, but I think Drop In did a great job of dealing with this tricky situation.
As a mom who works at home, I have a weird schedule, and I LOVE how flexible they are.
I like the food they serve, because it’s organic and healthy– the kids are adorable when I go in and they are all sitting around the table together eating.
Ultimately I feel like you can tell a ton about a childcare center by observing the kids, and the kids there are content, happy, engaged. I’ve watched it go through some growing pains as it is a newer place, but I think they’ve worked out a lot of the kinks.
We’re finished at Drop In as of the end of summer, but I would definitely sign up here again if I had another wee one who needed daycare/​preschool.

Bought a groupon, got free registration, toured the place 5 times and just never felt comfortable with the lack of ability to get through to anyone on the phone or the high turnover of the people I was seeing when I was touring.

I hate being the first review with two stars, but the descriptor is «meh. I’ve experienced better.» and I wasn’t overly impressed with Kidz Drop In. I just moved to the area, and was looking for full or part time care for my little one. I knew I’d have to wait for a full time spot to open up, but I liked what I saw in the after-​hours tour (clean play areas, organic food, good location) and they said they had two days a week available.
The communications prior to our first day were minimal, they rarely answer the phone, and didn’t return my phone call trying to confirm what we needed for our first day. Their email with 10 documents to sign was lost amongst junk email, and after begging for documents onsite, the front desk girl said printing them would take 30 minutes and was in no rush to stop other things to help me out (maybe a reason to streamline the signup documents or have them pre-​printed for new families). In the end we were turned away for not having a birth certificate copy, because I couldn’t leave my little one there for 15 minutes without it on file. To top this all off, they didn’t have two days available per week, they said they would confirm week by week, we weren’t part time we were a drop in.
If you’re looking for drop in to get a break from your kids so you can do unscheduled things like run errands or have lunch with friends, this might be a good fit for you. But they don’t confirm availability until the Friday before and they rarely answer the phone, so you better be on email.
I hope they change their policies, they have significant opportunity for improvement for signing up new families (pre-​print forms that you want printed OR have online enrollment, don’t email 10 documents for busy parents to print out). And have part time families confirm the days they want when they have their schedules, don’t wait until the Thursday before so you can give another family 3 days notice that monday is/isn’t available.