Christ Lutheran Child Development Center

I have one child who went through this daycare from the one year old room all the way through the school age program. My other son is currently in the transition room (2.5 years). I have had nothing but positive experiences with both of my kids. As a teacher myself, I felt my oldest son was more than ready for kindergarten by attending this daycare. Not only was he prepared academically, he was also emotionally prepared. Being a primary elementary teacher, I know how important academics are. That being said, being able to handle your emotions is more important when you’re talking about the readiness of a child entering school. Christ Lutheran focused on social emotional needs and academics. Both of my kids received outside services for speech and all of the teachers were very receptive to suggestions on how to help each of my kids thrive. I have been very pleased with the level of care and the communication between the center and the families.

I would 100% recommend this Daycare. I went here when I was a kid and now both of my boys go here. My two year old absolutely loves going to “school” and has learned so much since he started. The directors and teachers are so kind and loving and really care about the kids. After our experience here, I don’t know if I would trust my kids anywhere else.

If I could give this institution zero stars, I would. They knowingly fed our son food that he was allergic to and did not call us for two hours. Upon arriving, he was having an allergic reaction! Allergies were posted, medical forms were filled out, and this STILL happened. Years later, a family member sent their children there and many, MANY things that are being done in this center are not appropriate. If you are into staff members bullying children and food allergies being ignored… this is the center for you! If not, stay FAR away.

I want to tell the full story of my daughter's experience at this daycare so anyone making the difficult decision will be very well informed. I would like note the daycare director was replaced twice while my daughter was there there. This daycare had 3 different directors in a matter of 2-3 years, the last director was a member of the church and she took over after our daughter went to the 2's room. The story---- My daughter was in this daycare since roughly 6 months old, she never had a problem at drop off even at that age. Our experience was good from the infant room, toddler room, and the 2s room, but once she hit the 3s room something start to happen. Our daughter no longer was easy at drop off, she wanted extra long hugs, didn't want to go into the school some mornings. We thought it was weird, but didn't think much of it. Our daughter previously loved going to school, until she got to the 3s room. We believe her and the teacher didn't get along. When we made the statement to the teacher, 'we get the impression you didn't like or daughter cause you only writes negative things' (through their app), we received no reply. We expected her to at least refute that or insist that wasn't the case, she didn't. After a several weeks of no direct communication, we could only assume we were right. At one point, we were told by the director she was kicking the her. We decided to ask our daughter why she kicked the director and her response was the director 'picked me up'. We decided to take her to a behavior therapist and asked the director for a document describe events prior to the kicking behavior. When the director gave us this document, it left out the kicking event all together. At this point we knew we weren't being told the truth about what was going on. Eventually we were able to get our daughter switched to the other 3's room, it was like pulling teeth since this was the second time we asked. But very little changed with our daughter. The teacher was better and communication improved. Our daughter had a better time in that room but she still didn't want to go into that building in the morning. She still woke up moody 3 or 4 times a week. She still didn't want to go school. On our daughter's last day, we got a call from the school. They told us to come pick up our daughter, she was in their office naked. When we got there my daughter was locked in a dark room with the assistant director and the director. She was naked like they said, when asked, my daughter said she just said she wanted to go back up to the room with her friends. After being home for a few hours, my daughter asks why she can't have snack (one of her punishments was no snack), we started to ask her what happened today. Trying to force her to answer her own question. During this time she mentioned they spanked her. We were in shock. We started to ask what happened again and we were able to record it, she was adamant they spanked her and that's why her butt is red. The next day she repeated the claim with us only asking what happened, this time using the phrase "they smack me a lot". We withdrew immediately that morning. Later we found out the director took our daughter to the her office against my daughter's will because she had to pick her up (this came from the state inspector). My daughter didn't like to be held, she's very independent and likely kicked and hit her the whole way, I now understand why she was always in flight or fight mode. The first few weeks follow her withdraw from this daycare, we noticed a behavior, mood, and attitude improvement. I don't know what is going on at this daycare but I can say with certainty, it wasn't good for our daughter. Also, after we left several staff approached us to tell us our daughter was being, what I can only describe as bullied/targeted by some staff to escalate her behaviors. I hope this review allows any parent to make an informed decision about this school. Your experience will likely be different, I can only hope it's a good different if you go.

After our old center closed down we got into this center on August 28th, she was in the 3 year old room. Coming from another center that, this was a huge adjustment for a 3 year old, especially at nap time where this center doesn't allow pillows or stuffed animals for this particular age room. She had some behavioral issues at nap time and I'm not saying by any means that it's acceptable, but this school didn't want to work with her and as soon as she acted up the directors were immediately called up to the room to handle the situation. Wednesday August 30th she was sent home for behavior after being walked down to the main area and tried to run away from them most likely because she was scared. I had to leave work and go get her. My wife and I asked them at our initial tour if staffing issues was a problem and they assured us it was not, so when I went to pick her up it was mentioned they didn't have the staff for 1 on 1 care. So I just simply stated "well that's irritating because we were told otherwise on our tour". The rude director/pastor of course said " I never said that" then proceeded to tell my wife I called them liars... Her teacher also stated our daughter was trying to kick her when the directors said she was just flailing her legs. So either way we don't know what to actually believe, we feel alot was blown out of proportion because her teacher was very dramatic. They had an incident with her EVERY SINGLE DAY. Tuesday September 5th she apparently kicked her teachers and had 2 temper tantrums, they couldnt get her under control and she was once again sent home. Thursday September 7th my mother went in to have a meeting with the other director since my wife and I couldn't miss anymore work and my mother used to be a 3 year old teacher about 20 years ago. While my mother was there my daughter had another behavioral problem and they were called up. My mom tried talking to my daughter telling her she needs to take a nap and what not. The Pastor then said she needed to go home. That was our last day there and we took her out of this terrible center. The other director we have no complaints about and I think it would be ran way better if she was the only one running the show. Our daughter has now been at her new center a week with ZERO issues, takes naps, and gets along fine with teachers and kids!