Little Star Home Family Daycare

My husband and I were browsing daycare center located close to his work and I came across this daycare. I began reading the reviews and discovered the owner’s name is Faye. My husband and I had decided to name our daughter Faye. I was preparing to give birth in one month when I made the call and arranged to meet.
When I went there to check out the daycare, it was clear to me that the children were happy and well adjusted. They were enthusiastic and greeted my husband and I as we entered the home. Staff was friendly and very nice and caring to the children. I saw a baby crying in her bassinet and the staff tended to the baby right away. We decided this was the place we wanted to place our daughter when she was born. We placed a deposit to hold our daughter’s spot.
Based on previous reviews, I made sure to check in with her monthly. I arranged for a day to sit with my daughter in daycare before she started. On her first day, the children were so kind and staff was so nice to my daughter. It is clear that my daughter loves it there and I am so grateful Ms Faye and her staff are caring for my daughter. My husband and I often say ‘what a Godsend!‘
I am preparing to return to work and I feel relief that we chose this daycare. It’s just wonderful!

I love this daycare… staff is very friendly. They offer a good curriculum for kids to learn. My son has picked up so much since he started this day care. I like that they follow a program daily/​routine (dance, puzzles, arts), which I think is important for kids. I would highly recommend it.

My son has been going to Little Star Daycare for about 8 months now. We have been looking at other places for convenience and money issues but we always end up deciding to stay with Little Star Daycare. Ms Faye and Ms Hengameh have been genuinely caring and loving towards my son and the other kids. They offer suggestions from napping to feeding which we as new parents definitely appreciate especially since they have been caring for kids for many years. As a mom, I always worry about who and where I leave my LO with but I don’t worry as much anymore because I know that Ms Faye and Ms Hengameh take care of him so well. One of the key things I’ve learned from searching for a good day care is to observe how the kids behave at any given time. If they are all crying and the environment is chaotic, it shows that the kids’ needs are not being met. I have dropped in unannounced multiple times and each time, the kids all look peaceful and happy.

We started looking for a daycare three months before I was due with my baby girl. We booked in June and expected to start daycare in January when my baby will be five months. I assumed everything was fine as we called around September to check in and so happy to have picked a daycare as I hear daycares book up fast and we had to deposit to hold our spot for January. Come end of November we called to ask if we can start to transition my baby a few weeks before January since she is more shy and is starting to recognize faces so I had concerns she may not do well in daycare. Instead Faye sounded confused and tells us she took in too many infants and that she did not have a spot for us in January. Seriously, she did not even follow-​up until we called. I’m so disappointed we ended up having to get our deposit back and having only a few weeks to start looking for a new daycare as I had to return to work in January. I’m still in between looking for a new daycare, not cool at all.

My husband and I had our son in June, and arranged our work schedules to allow us to care for him until January. We began looking for daycares in July, and it took until September for us to find Ms. Faye’s Little Star. We visited and were impressed with how well-​behaved and collaborative the children were, and paid $ 490 to reserve our son a spot in January, which Ms. Faye assured us would be open.
She called us on November 20^th, 6 weeks before our son was scheduled to begin daycare, to tell us she had been mistaken, and that there was no opening for our son — would April be all right? She assured us she would return the check we’d given her, which I had to remind her that she’d already cashed.
This put us in a nearly impossible position. We had to consider whether one of us would have to leave work, which would put our family under serious financial and emotional stress.
Though I cannot speak to the quality of care at Little Star, I would caution parents against putting their faith — and money — towards reserving a spot for their child. Ms. Faye is either not organized enough or considerate enough to be conscientious about her professional commitments to parents.

We are very happy with the staff at Little Star. Our little one started day care at six months. They offer a good curriculum for kids to learn. I like that she follows a program daily (dance, puzzles, arts), which I think is important for kids. My LO takes a nap twice a day and she goes down like clockwork during the weekends when she is with us. Miss Faye, Hengameh, and the other helper (who’s name I can’t remember) are very loving toward the kids and I’ve had the opportunity to watch them during the day and lunchtime and all the kids are very well-​behaved and disciplined. Because my LO is the youngest in the group, the older ones are very protective and friendly towards her. It’s nice to see that even at such a young age, they have a growing friendship and look after each other. We are very pleased with this daycare and happy that we found such a gem of a place!

Ms. Faye is so caring to the children, she was incredible with our son and provided the attention our son needed to make the transition from his grandma’s taking care of him everyday, to learning to go to what we call «school».
If your child is having a hard time adjusting at daycare/​pre-​schools due to not having enough attention, definitely consider Little Star. Hengame is also an INCREDIBLE helper, you can tell she really cares and love the children she watches and also loves her job.

I know Miss Faye for at least 30 years now and she is in love with children. All she has to think of is how to find new ways to communicate more thoroughly with the children and co-​relates all the matters around her with subjects about children and science of taking care of them in the best way possible.
I first visited Little Star Day Care couple of years ago and I was amazed. The place is very clean, disciplined yet comfortable, children are happy (oh they love Miss Faye) yet they really pay attention to what she has to say. Fay tries to be their friend, and children consider her as a friend as well, however the respect is in its place for her. She gets to know the character of each and one of the children one by one, how to teach them to communicate, share, and care about each-​other. When she puts them to sleep I see how comfortably the go to sleep with huge trust towards her. Aren’t they the best critics of Faye? For sure, just ask them and you’ll see how much they love her.
If I ever had children I wouldn’t even think twice to put my children anywhere else. Little star is one of the best places for our children to learn, play, and to grow-​up being happy people.

I was referred to Little Star daycare from my co-​worker who sent her 2 children to this place.
My daughter started going there when she was only 4 months old. As my husband and I don’t have any close relatives nearby, for us, we feel that Ms. Faye has been sort of our close relative. Ms. Faye gave us a lot of good advice on how to raise our baby with a lot of love and some discipline. We are very comfortable leaving our kid at her place. When I go to pick up my daughter after work, she doesn’t even want to go home! Ms. Faye also has 2 best and most caring assistants Ms. Hengameh and Ms. Brenda, and kids just love them. Now my daughter is 2.5 yrs old, she talks about them all the time at home even on weekends.
I like the fact that unlike big daycare centers, this place has good mixture of kids with different ages. When my daughter was a baby, she grew up by looking at and learning from older kids. Now she learns to take care of younger ones and be gentle with them. I feel that my daughter was raised in a similar environment as a big family with a lot of siblings, and this is priceless especially in a modern world where most of us only have one or two children at home.
If I ever have another child, I’d like Ms. Faye to take care of him/​her. My daughter learned so much from this daycare and made good friends. With Ms. Faye’s good discipline with kids, it seems that kids are all in a safe and friendly environment all the time. This daycare is not a regular daycare where they only look after your kids, feed and let them play. This daycare gives a lot of love to your kids and teaches as if their own children.