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Huckleberry Cheesecake parks screaming kids in courtyard for 30-45 minutes
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Anonymous
| You are likely right, PP, but it's still sad. Our daycare on the city's edge has plenty of outdoor space that is safe, so even babies could hang out outside. Maybe one in arms, one on a blanket, one in a stroller (3:1 ratio). Fenced in, no car or outsider worries. |
Anonymous
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"You are likely right, PP, but it's still sad. Our daycare on the city's edge has plenty of outdoor space that is safe, so even babies could hang out outside. Maybe one in arms, one on a blanket, one in a stroller (3:1 ratio). Fenced in, no car or outsider worries. "
Good point. Even if there may be some reasons behind it I would find it really depressing if that was my DD just sitting in the stroller screaming for an extended period. That's not what I think most parents envision outdoor timing meaning. |
Anonymous
| From the directors of Huckleberry Cheesecake, we appreciate the input from the community about the incident discussed on this forum. We want the community to know that we have addressed this with our staff. Thank you. |
Anonymous
What is sad is the statement that the incident is "very typical of child care providers". That's a mighty big generalization. Can you prove what you said to be true? |
Anonymous
| My last child just wrapped up her 5 years at a center daycare and is off to school next week. I could cry with gratitude when I think of the wonderful women and men who took care of my kids over the past nine years. They were an integral part of helping us raise my wonderful, happy, loved children. Anyone ignoramous who feels entitled to criticize DCP across the board can kiss my ass. |
Anonymous
Really? How exactly do you address the fundamental disrespect for small children your staff has shown via the incidents described in this thread (the stroller, Rose Park)? |
Anonymous
I haven't read through the rest of the responses here, but wanted to tell you that I saw children from HC in Rose Park in freezing temperatures last winter - they WALKED there. No one else's children could stand being in the park for more than ten minutes. It was simply too cold. I told my friend about it since her child was in the HC group, but she brushed off my concerns. I learned my lesson. I will never tell her anything again, even that some of the children shut one child inside a play kitchen, and he couldn't get out. The daycare workers ignored it all. A friend of mine marched over and freed the poor toddler. It was like Lord of the Flies. Now that I think about it, I should have taken a picture of the trapped kid. |
Anonymous
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Happy huckleberry parent here. Again, we have not seen the referenced pictures. I have met up with classes that are out and about and I have never seen anything untoward and they were not expecting me. Also, to second the explanation of another parent, the courtyard time is in addition to morning park time.
I would take HC over a nanny or an in home daycare any day of the week and really any other daycare facility I toured and I looked at a lot. And contrary to the assumptions of the commenters on this board, I do love my children. They have better retention than any other facility for their early years staff and my kids have loved their teachers, who I do see every day. |
Anonymous
The incidents in this thread all occurred when parents weren't around, though. Obviously some workers at this daycare treat the children differently when parents are absent. (Unless you were camped out in the park shrubbery observing for a long chunk of time). |
Anonymous
| So do we know how old the kids in question were? Sounds like they were maybe the 2's class? I have a niece in that room and would hate to think her teachers talked to her that way. |
Anonymous
I'm not the PP, but yes, I do. Is there a problem with that? |
Anonymous
It's a great name! It worked to drawn in a lot of clients... Give your daycare a posh name, swanky location and good paint job, and it can draw in business. All of those things have no bearing on the quality of childcare your child is actually getting. I speak from the experience of working with children to owning my own center. I knew one daycare owner that was a good sales woman had great presence and the gift of gab, she would sell anyone on her daycare, but when the parents left she actually spent very little time with the children. She didn't mistreat them or anything like that, but you didn't get what you thought you were paying for. I had one employee who was really shy around the parents, but bonded very quickly with the children, always cuddling and holding them. The children loved her but she was terrible when parents came by for a visit, she just couldn't "sell it!" It took the parents a week or two to warm up to her once they saw how their children loved seeing her in the morning. Some of the factors that parents are using to gauge the quality of a daycare, are just ridiculous and easy to fake... I DON'T HAVE AN OPINION ABOUT HUCKLEBERRY EITHER WAY, BUT IT'S A GREAT NAME FOR SALES  ....DON'T YOU FEEL ALL WARM AND FUZZY WHEN YOU HEAR IT?
BTW...Post those pictures if you have them....something tells me that you don't. |
Anonymous
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There is a broad range of what parents are willing to accept with child care. I just met a woman the other day who has her child enrolled at a day care facility that has horrific violations - including having intoxicated staff lose toddlers for up to an hour outdoors, losing a 3 year old who left the center and walked home down a busy highway, physically punishing toddlers, etc. I asked her if she was aware of all those issues, and she just said "Well, they are open about the violations and post them. So as long as they aren't hiding anything . . ."
Seriously. |
Anonymous
Which facility is this? |
Anonymous
Snicker. Yes. But we can save that for another day. |