Anna'S Bananas Daycare And Preschool INC

Our daughter loves the teachers and all her friends, she comes home talking about all the fun things she has done all day! She has pretty bad separation anxiety in general but they have done so much to make sure she is happy and well taken care of during the day! As a parent, knowing she is safe, happy, and learning every time she is there is such a reassuring feeling. On top of that, management has been SO accommodating with our family-my husband and I have weird schedules but they have been able to make sure we have a plan to make it work for us and our daughter!

The Annas Bananas staff is incredible. As first time parents we were panicked about sending our son to a daycare- we didn't know these people and Neither did our son. But day after Day the AB staff cared, communicated, and it fostered a trust that we are so grateful for. The AB staff blazed the way on potty training, instilled a love of counting and reading, and help our kiddo get out of his shell. I have only wonderful things to say about our experience. The staff are amazing and I cannot thank them enough.

I’m writing this as a parent who had to make a very difficult decision to withdraw our baby from this daycare due to safety concerns that we couldn’t ignore. The most alarming issue? A bottle of my wife’s breast milk was found in another child’s bag. That’s not just a mix-up — it opens the very real and terrifying possibility that our child may have been fed someone else’s milk, or vice versa. I can’t prove it happened, but the moment that bottle was found misplaced, the possibility became real. And there’s no coming back from that feeling. Another serious concern was with pacifier use. We specifically clarified which pacifier was ours — and after that, on a separate occasion, a different pacifier was again placed in our baby’s mouth. That’s a basic hygiene boundary being crossed not once, but twice, after it had already been addressed. Disease can spread through saliva. These kinds of mistakes are not minor when it comes to the care of infants. The lack of accountability and attention to safety left us feeling like we had no choice but to remove our child. I’m not leaving this review out of anger — we know daycare is hard work — but families deserve to know what happened. We trusted this place, and we left with serious doubts about the safety systems in place for the youngest children. **Thank you for the reply. I understand the need for due diligence on your end. For clarity: we were enrolled and withdrew after raising multiple safety concerns — concerns your team acknowledged in writing. It’s difficult to accept the claim that no record exists when we received direct communication and confirmation of our child's withdrawal. I won’t speculate why the response says otherwise, but it reinforces why we felt we couldn’t stay. Edit: Parents, you’ll have to choose for yourself — but our experience left us deeply unsettled, and we hope this helps others feel empowered to ask the right questions early.

Anna’s Bananas was wonderful when I first enrolled my son… he made friends, liked his teacher and was learning new things. Sadly after about 6 months of being there, due to them needing to adjust their class sizes due to being short staffed they moved my son three times to the next step up classroom, without my permission or knowledge (until I picked him up and found him in a different classroom) never changing the amount their were charging me (despite it being the next age bracket). My son came home often with bumps and bruises from trying to keep up with the older kids rough housing with him, staff never knowing how he was hurt and never stepping in when he told them what was going on. Instead he would end up with pink slips saying he was the one doing something wrong, I would go along with signing them because I was unsure of the situation until my son would tell me that night at home. By the end of his time there, my son would cry every time he was dropped off because he hated it so much there. I thought it was just because my son struggles with separating from me, but as time has gone by since he was there and with better understanding of how to put his feelings/ thoughts to words by son has explained about the yelling the staff would do at the children, the ice cream days during the summer where when their allotted time was up the children all had their ice cream taken from their hands and thrown away. The last straw came when I witnessed staff aggressively lifting someone’s crying child and angrily carrying them to another classroom and heard as this staff member yelled at the child for crying… I had heard the staff yelling at the children before, watched as staff ignored crying babies as they sat around, listened as they complained about not being paid enough or complained about certain children but never had I seen them be aggressive until that day. Now I wonder what all I didn’t hear or see while my son was there. I regret sending my son there for two years. They do decent at acting like all is great there but really they are an over-priced, over -hyped home daycare with burnt out, short tempered staff “teaching” our children. I sent my son to Farmingtons Wee Tiger program after pulling him from annas bananas… he learned more in one school year there than his two yelling filled years there, cost much less AND the teachers were amazing. Not standing around complaining about being short staffed, under paid and treating other peoples children like herded cattle.

Our daughter started as a newborn at Anna's and we are so happy with the care she has received. She is now 4 years old and LOVES going to Anna's every day. The teachers and staff are amazing. The updates throughout the day through the Daily Connect app are so helpful. I really like being able to message her teachers if I want to check on our daughter during the day. The pictures that are uploaded make me smile. We really enjoy the fact that Anna's offers reasonably priced enrichment programs such as tumbling, dance, soccer and music and that these programs are on-site and during the school day. The director of the center is fantastic! She does an impeccable job managing all of the details of Anna's with a smile on her face.