Sunshine House

I wouldn’t recommend this daycare center to anyone. This has been the worst experience for my lil great niece. Her mom work from home and she trusted the Sunshine House Staff to care for her daughter as if she was their own. My lil great niece has been going to this center for about 4 months and it has been a total disaster. There has been multiple incidents happened with my niece and her mother has tried to cope with but it has gotten way out of hand. 1st incident- the director’s child scratched my niece on the face twice. 2nd incident- it was told that another child scratched her up under her eye. 3rd incident- she was bitten on her back resulting the skin bleeding and broken off. As a 1st time mother, my niece is very traumatized and she isn’t comfortable with allowing anyone to care for her daughter except selected family members. In the photo below you can see where the 1st 2 scratch mark was on her face but it’s healed.

I absolutely love this daycare. I have three sons who attend there; a toddler and two afterschoolers. My toddler is bursting with knowledge and is always happy to go to daycare thanks to Mrs Tara and her love for teaching and the children. My afterschoolers always have their homework done upon pickup and are good and tired from whatever activities they’re doing. They always have made some friends there too. I definitely would recommend this location for your children.

lack of communication, i lost my job due to them not communicating with me properly. as a single mom doing everything on my own and they have known about that, they could have went about things so differently. for example if you see a mother bribing her child to school every day in lyft/uber why not email her ahead of time to tell her to not bring the child in due to vouchers being over etc? why wait until the mom shows up in uber knowing she’s going to work and is on a time limit to try to tell her knowing she’s in a hurry. why is one lady in the office telling a single mom to bring her child until one date but then when the mother goes to pick up her child she finds out her child can’t come up until the date the other lady told her would be ok? as us all being women and knowing how hard it is why was it no paper trail with any of these conversations? it’s as if sunshine house never liked me, energy was off from day one and i don’t appreciate how i was treated since i moved to columbia. now i am jobless all because of bad communication. everyone in that building seen what i would do every day just to get there. i feel like it was no grace giving to me and now i have to start all over again. learn how to communicate the proper way. just as you leave emails about payments i should of got emails about my son not being able to come or even a heads up before time. so thank you sunshine house for playing a big part of me losing my job and now not even being able to get unemployment. yal told me i had until the 31st but on the 28th told me he couldn’t come without payment. i feel like only thing y’all care about is money . i learned my lesson though

If your child is on a voucher program, this is not the center for you. I have been charged a registration fee for the last 2 years, which is supposed to be returned “once dss refunds the fee” I have been asking the director for over a year for a reimbursement for 300.00 of registration fees I paid and she is very dismissive, telling me to call DSS. I have also called the Regional, Elonda Blyther several times and left messages and she never returns a call. Now here it is, time to pay registration again today. I called the center and asked Ms. Jasmine to ask the director to call me and she deliberately did not call me. Which brought me to leave a review.If the center has a contract with Dss to reimburse the money, why should the parents have to sit and wait 2 hours or more to talk to someone at dss? You are suppose to be helping us. If I have to sit on the phone and wait to speak to someone at dss for 2 hours it’s going to be to make a complaint, and then I’m going to take some more time out of my day to call BBB and DHEC because this place is not what it should be. It’s time to renew my voucher and I’ve already taken two of my children out of this location and as soon as I find availability at another facility that accepts vouchers I will be taking my last child out of this place because enough is enough.I already have the email you send out to all of the reviews I will be following up there.

This center is family oriented! Every morning my baby is greeted by smiling faces, like Ms. Nett Ms.Eryn, Ms. Katie, and Ms. Tara. With this being my first baby I was a little worried about the start of daycare. But we have been here for a year and some change and I plan to keep my baby here all the way till she is in afterschool!