If you love your child's daycare, what do you love about it? What makes it great?

[Anonymous]

Trustworthy, reliable teachers and administration with excellent communication. Teachers would happily go the extra mile helping to potty train, work on a behavioral issue, etc. Administrators were really responsive and will to change procedures based on parent feedback. Plus my child loved school and came home happy every day.

[Anonymous]

A plug for Broadcaster's' Child Development Center in Tenleytown. We have had our kids there (one an alum now) since 2016, and it's a great place. The staff is so caring and fun. They actually have spots open now (they just moved to a larger location, so for the first time in almost 40 years they have openings without a wait list!).

[Anonymous]

I haven’t always loved it, but right now I’m very pleased with how they are dealing with the pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:--Low turnover.
--OK to hire staff to babysit (I didn't know many centers forbid this until a co-worker mentioned it about her center).
--Many families who have had 2 or more kids there.
--Includes all meals and snacks.
--Lots of outdoor space and different playgrounds separated by age.
--Lead teachers have degrees and a couple even have a masters. Assistants don't, typically, but the younger ones are all enrolled in MoCo CC or UMD.


It's not perfect, of course. Younger DS is still there and older DS was there from infancy to K.

Adding to that list, low turnover in families and low turnover in teachers, with many of the teachers having worked there for way over 10-15 years.
Daycare stays open almost all year long, including over winter break, spring break. Even opens on public school snow days if the Federal government is open. I remember a recent winter with 7 snow days for my kindergartener.