Kiddie Academy of Reston

It has been long due to write the review about kiddie academy of Reston. My then ⁴¹⁄₂ year old daughter attended the apples classroom with Ms Brook for almost a year until we moved out of that area, and she started kindergarten. Both my daughter and myself had a great experience there. Compared to her previous daycares which were in another state, kiddie academy, and specifically her teachers exceeded my expectation. Here I noticed a big change in my daughter. She has always been eager to go to her class, which was definitely a positive change, and her teachers get the full credit. She developed a very positive attitude towards reading and writing, science projects, art — few of the many things to mention. Being a full time working mother, I also needed extra help other than the daycare time. Kiddie academy office staff and even the owner herself were personally extremely helpful, and went above and beyond to meet my needs including finding me a nanny as well to help me take care of her when the daycare was closed. Last but not the least, I was returned the deposit amount soon after my
daughter left the daycare.
Overall, kiddie academy has many devoted teachers and staff who help children to grow up in a positive environment, and are helping working parents to be confident that their kids are well taken care of in their absence. This is of course my personal experience. I wish all the best to kiddie academy of reston. Hope they continue to recruit and retain staff like Ms Brook, Ms Colonie who are making the difference.
Well, my daughter insisted me to also write that she loved her friends there :)

I am a very busy new mom and my biggest concern at the time of returning to work was to find not a good, but a great daycare for my child. I toured many facilities and evaluated many options and I originally chose a different daycare for my baby… Then I switched to Kiddie Academy and couldn’t be happier with my decision. My baby’s teachers (she is in the blueberries classroom) are very caring and loving. I have access to a webcam to see my baby the whole time she is there and I have witnessed how the teachers treat all babies and they play with them, interact with them like I would with my baby, should I be at home with her. I have seen them dash the babies with bubbles, read to babies, caress and kiss them and in all honesty, I am happy that my baby still receives that affection, in spite of the fact that I cannot be the one giving her all this love and attention during this time. I just work with the satisfaction of having my baby in a great place. I am bilingual and the teachers are also bilingual. This is an advantage as my baby is also talked to in Spanish. To this date, three months after returning to work and starting daycare at Kiddie Academy, my balance is very positive and I’m quite happy I found this place!
–Update after my baby has been with KA for 5 months… I’m so glad I found this place! My baby girl receives great care and I can always see her on the webcam.

We are super happy here! My son loves going to school. The teachers have always been wonderful to my son and my family. I would highly recommend the school!

Kiddie Academy of Reston is a wonderful place to bring your children. They are a clean, bright new center that has been open for 18 Months. The teachers are caring, well trained and everyone here treats the kids and parents like family. They have cameras in all the classrooms and paperless daily reports that are sent by Ipads that are used in all the classrooms. If you want a loving, warm, friendly place who will welcome your children into the center like they are family I would highly recommend Kiddie Academy of Reston!

Very RUDE Director (Tammy) and staff. Very short tempered and mean teachers.
Our son has been going to Kiddie Academy of Reston for a 3 months now. The owner had been very nice and welcoming during our first visit. However, the director Tammy is extremely rude and unpleasant. Instead of addressing our issues with the teachers, she has been outright nasty with us!!! Some of the concerns we had — the classroom teachers are very short tempered and do not have patience to handle young kids. Young children will try your patience, as we all know. The teacher and assistant just have one or two «favorite» kids in the classroom who they attend to and the others are just there, trying to get by the day.
The teachers are incompetent, cannot handle the number of children they are assigned. I saw the teacher pushing away a couple of kids who were being difficult — if teachers do this what will the kids learn? We witnessed a couple of kids get into fights and the teachers did nothing while watching them.
They also dont have stable teachers, too much turnover in just the few months we have been here.
And talking to the management is useless — they pay no attention once they have the $$ and are outright mean to you (and possibly to your kid in your absence)
I am taking our son out of this place ASAP.

Parents: DO NOT SEND YOUR INFANT CHILDREN HERE. My 3-​month-​old son’s first day here was also his last. We had initially chosen this center because of the surveillance feature– you can access the center’s cameras online and watch your child throughout the day. Not only did I want to be able to see my little one while I was at work, I also figured the knowledge that the caregivers could be watched at any given time would provide them the extra motivation to do right by our child. Needless to say, on our baby’s first day I was checking the camera footage quite regularly. As my work day was nearing its end, I decided I would check in one last time before his father and I went to pick him up. I was horrified to see that my son had been put to sleep ON HIS STOMACH. He is unable to roll over so I knew he had been deliberately placed that way by a caregiver– which is not only EXTREMELY DANGEROUS but also a blatant violation of the center’s safe sleep policy. I immediately called the center and my son was promptly turned over, but, needless to say I could not have brought him home soon enough. The owner admitted the caregiver’s wrongdoing and handled it as well as she could’ve, though another caregiver mentioned something about «not paying attention» (SUPER comforting…). Needless to say, I considered this infraction unforgivable and ON THE FIRST DAY, no less. So we yanked him from the daycare. I will say that other parents of children at the center seem happy and I cannot speak for any rooms other than the young infant room. However, the fact that the center would hire such an incompetent individual is deeply concerning. I consider my son lucky to be out of there alive!

We started here n September 2013 and we love it and so does my step daughter. Her teachers are wonderful and she has learned so much since she started here.
It is very clean and serves good lunches. My wife’s favorite thing is that they have cameras and we can check in on her remotely. We definitely have no regrets.