Cradles Cribs & Crayons

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When you say 'obviously' in all your points - its total guess work on your part. You don't know anyone involved or the steps the daycare itself took. And you certainly have no idea This is a classic example of the anonymity of the internet allowing people with their opinions to make them definitive instead of just what they really are – guess work and gossip. The only thing that is ‘obvious’, is a lot of posts around the internet of parents raving about this business and the care and concern the entire staff has for the kids there. And one parent who did not have a good experience. An experience mind you that they didn’t appreciate, and that can be understood, but it happened BECAUSE of the care of the people at the daycare. They didn’t ‘diagnose’ the child - they were worried about the kid’s well being. They (and its my opinion) appropriately told the parent – “We think something is wrong, and we want you to know what we observed” – isn’t that what ANYONE would want from a daycare. I’d rather they tell me of a potential problem with my child than ignore something that could be an issue!So it comes down to opinion over the approach of the staff at this daycare. I for one feel that I’d rather have concerned & involved caretakers, rather than ones who play PC and just hand my kid back at the end of the day. Obviously others don’t want the same care, and they WISELY chose someplace else to go. Obviously CCC cares too much about the kids there to ignore them.And about the “wrong diagnosis”, who knows what happened with that child? The parent said they took them to all these different specialists and the results all came back negative. You assume the worst about the business when who knows if the parent even did what they said? Maybe the parents (and this NEVER happens, right?) don’t want to hear anything negative about their child, and instead of doing anything just pulled their kid, moved on, and threw CCC ‘under the bus’ on their way out? Hopefully they did the right thing for their child, and went to the specialists, but its been a year now… who knows how that child is doing today? I guarantee this parent, if something came up (and I TRULY hope nothing is wrong with their child – that is the absolute worst thing ever to happen) they would not run to update the review or post “just kidding, CC was right”.I hope the best for this family and EVERYONE who has kids - its hard to raise them, even harder when you have to entrust them to strangers. Let’s let those who have been involved share their opinion so parents like us can make informed choices - cause in the end its about what’s best for OUR kids…and let’s keep the ‘obvious’ gossip to ourselves.

After reading both reviews from parentMD and John I have a couple of comments. 1. I have never met a MD to make a diagnoses on observation alone especially to discredit another physician opinion. 2. If parentMD had read the entire review by the parent they would have seen that John didn't make the comment about the directors education the physician did because they over stepped their boundaries. 3. According to parentMD they spend less time with their children than the teachers but magically, parentMD had enough time to make a diagnoses for not their child but someone else’s. 4. How does parentMD know who John is and who his child is? This was obviously written not by a person with a medical degree or background but by the daycare themselves in order to save star on their rating. And if a person is willing to ruin a child’s reputation in order to save a star on dex, I believe there is a warm place in hell for that person to do that to a helpless child.

I just love this school. I have 2 boys aged 5 and 3.They have both been there since they were 1 yrs old.I work all day and needed a place that could keep the kids till 5-6pm.It's such a long time to be without my kids. I looked around for a long time before choosing a daycare.I spoke with every director and parents of many schools and was by far most impressed with Cradles Cribs & Crayons. The director was professional yet very warm. I had a long chat with her.After talking to her for about an hour I just knew that this was the place that felt right. The teachers are so nice and adore the kids.I've already known them for 4 years and am so sad my older one is graduating soon.Both boys love coming to school and run and give a big hug to the director/owner everytime they see her. I've read past reviews that were commenting on the director. I have to say that after 4 years i've never had a bad experience with her. I can't imagine leaving my kids with a person I didn't trust %100. She is

It's so sad to see a parent felt the need for namecalling -- on a business directory of all places! In retrospect, I hope he is able to see what he has done is wrong. The truth is, these daycare teachers spend much more time with our children than we as parents do. Their professional opinions should not be so hastily discounted. They are professionally trained and, to this point, Cradles' director HAS graduate-level credentials. Next time you make fun of someone online, please do a *little* homework first. Unfortunately for John, I DO have a medical degree and had the unique pleasure of meeting his son on a number of occasions as our children were in the same classroom more than a year ago. It was obvious to me then that his son most definitely displays mild behavioral symptoms and characteristics for autism.

My son had speech issues. The director did suggested seeing a neurologist, because she had concerns that he had autism. We took the advice and had him checked out by a neurologist, pediatrician, hearing test, and speech therapist. Thankfully all results came up negative. We relayed the results to the director. But surprising she suggested we get a second opinion. After informing my pediatrician of her suggestion, my doctor felt she overstepped her boundaries and commented “when do daycare directors have PHD’s?” She continued to make us as parents feel like we just didn’t do everything we could for our child. It almost seemed like she was bent on proving that there was something wrong with my child over all the professionals’ opinions. After feeling more than uncomfortable we switched day cares. She later bumped into our new daycare’s director and asked if she felt my son had autism. She just won’t leave it alone.

My son had speech issues. The director did suggested seeing a neurologist, because she had concerns that he had autism. We took the advice and had him checked out by a neurologist, pediatrician, hearing test, and speech therapist. Thankfully all results came up negative. We relayed the results to the director. But surprising she suggested we get a second opinion. After informing my pediatrician of her suggestion, my doctor felt she overstepped her boundaries and commented “when do daycare directors have PHD’s?” She continued to make us as parents feel like we just didn’t do everything we could for our child. It almost seemed like she was bent on proving that there was something wrong with my child over all the professionals’ opinions. After feeling more than uncomfortable we switched day cares. She later bumped into our new daycare’s director and asked if she felt my son had autism. She just won’t leave it alone.

My child is so happy here! I can’t say enough how much I love this center. I sent my older child to a different center, one with a long waiting list. There always seemed to be issues. They never quite practiced what they preached. Cradles, Cribs & Crayons is exactly the opposite. The staff is warm and outgoing. The communication is direct. I never find a note in the cubby about an issue that happened during the day that only the morning staff, who left for the day, knows about it. It might not be big & fancy, but it is very clean and there are plenty of activities for the children. My child actually started to cheer as we rounded the corner in the morning to “go to school” after the second week.