Building Bridges Daycare is a child daycare & preschools daycare located at 10 Hearthstone Ct, # 103, Reading, Pennsylvania PA. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
Building Bridges Daycare has received highly polarized reviews. While some parents praise the owners' dedication, professionalism, and caring approach to early childhood development, multiple other parents report serious safety concerns including physical abuse of children by staff members, lack of communication following incidents, inadequate supervision, and dishonesty from management.
If you care about your child’s safety, PLEASE think twice before sending them here. My son was physically mishandled by a teacher in this daycare — and sadly, after a police investigation, it was discovered that my son wasn’t the only victim. There were multiple incidents caught on camera, not just with my child but with other kids as well. Even worse, the daycare never reached out to us — not a call, not an email, NOTHING — even weeks after the incident. They didn’t check on my child’s well-being, didn’t offer any apology, and didn’t take any responsibility. For months, these acts of harm went unnoticed because apparently, nobody was monitoring the cameras or supervising properly. How can parents trust a place that doesn’t even bother to check if their teachers are treating children with respect and care? Leaving my child here was the biggest regret of my life. I’m sharing this so other parents don’t make the same mistake. If your child’s safety, emotional health, and dignity matter to you — stay away from this place.
If you care about the safety of your child(ren), do NOT send them here. Our child was abused. We were explicitly told that (1) our child was never around this person and (2) it was none of our business. Come to find out (per an EMAIL!!!) that our child was infact involved and infact laid her hands on him and shoved him. When we confronted the owners about the fact that they hired someone with a criminal record, we were gaslit and given a ridiculous blamatory apology. Our oldest would come home with bruises and scrapes on his torso. Injuries that were not "normal" and were never notified of any injuries until AFTER they were discovered later at home. They will send your children home "sick" with mysterious magical "fevers" but when you get to them they have no fever and are acting 100% normal. In reality, they either don't want to deal with the child and/or they are over ratio and need a good excuse to send a child (or two) home. This daycare cares more about protecting its "clique" staff and will lie instead of ensuring the safety of our children. They are constantly understaffed, undertrained, unprofessional, and one of the worst staff turnover rates I have ever experienced. Majority of support staff didn't last longer than 3 months. Our youngest who was involved in the abuse was left in the same pullup all day long to the point when I picked him up (this day was a surprise early pickup) the OUTSIDE of his pullup was wet. Not the waist line, but the groin area as if he had been in the same diaper I put on him 10hrs prior. Again, when i asked about it I was gaslit, told he fought them on all diaper changes that day but that he was changed at the appropriate times. This was a complete total lie. They blamed my child who was an older 2yo as to why they didn't change his diaper, but then redacted what they said and told me he was changed. Liars.
My niece was physically abused by assistant teacher in this daycare and police found out that he is not the only one. It is totally unacceptable situation, administration does not care about you or your child. Please stay away from this awful place!
Great school, with a dedicated and very professional team. The Johnsons are very attentive, caring and they built the school on sound principles from early childhood development.
As an early childhood researcher and interventionist who goes into preschools every day to support child development, I cannot recommend this school more highly. There are very few preschools where I would feel comfortable sending my own children, and Building Bridges is at the top of the list.