Child's Play of St. Cloud MN, Inc

I went here for a tour. The woman manager was seemingly nice. The teachers are protective and don’t let you in unless they recognize you which is good. The students are engaged and the teachers for the toddlers and preschool are interactive. The turn of events happened when I was going to sign the paperwork. The woman went through the handbook with me and we got to the page where it says immunizations. I asked do you allow children here that are non vaxxed. The woman said no. The male director asked me the reason why which is none of his business and then became very dramatic and theatrical. He said I say im immunocompromised and my wife doesn’t want to lose her husband. Then he said I only say that to use that as an example. Essentially shaming parents who aren’t sheep and think on their own. Shouldn’t my non compromised child be scared of all the kids here who are compromised because they are cupcaked. My child hasn’t had a cold since they’ve been on this earth. How in the world will they effect others? He should have said no and kept it moving but he went too far in his reply which is why I’m making this review. If you are a medical freedom believer you will be rejected and shamed by this place. Shame on them.

Brought my girls here and a child bite my child eye when she was a year old. They shared her blankets and formula with the other children. The last straw was when the teacher accused me of someone touching my daughter down in her private area and I brought her into the doctor's and it was from her not properly wipe herself down there. The teacher was very young and new to her job. I wouldn't want any parent to deal with this situation. I took my girls out of there care for good.

I bring my 4 year old to this daycare center and she loves it!. All the staff is super friendly and love the kids. I honestly have no negative things to say. As a working mom and full time student I'm glad to have a place to leave my child and know she's being cared for by some really good people. They have also taught her so much! They're helping me with preparing her for kindergarten.

I love taking my child there. Everyone is really friendly and nice. I never have to worry while I am at work if my child is okay because I know they are being well taken care of. I like how rooms a separted by their abilities and developments and not just age. I love that I can stop by any time and it is not a inconvince to them and that they encourage it as well.

I will start with my experience went only as far as speaking with the business, setting up multiple interviews and that was frankly enough of an indicator for myself. Scheduling: Difficult as they only accept interviews past 6:30pm Local time and may at anytime cancel on you (circumstances of cancellation may differ from my own if any) Communication: Typical responded within an hour to most messages until faced with questions that are harder than hours of operations. Then they read your message and refuse to respond in any reasonable time period. (Whats worse is they use a platform which allows people to see exactly when a message was read so there is no "We didn't see it" excuse) Honesty: This is where the 1 star review is based strongly on. During setting up interviews the times changed at least 2 times before 1 was set, and at that time I was told they could cancel and reschedule with little to no warning. There was 1 of the 4 total rescheduling incidents that was my own (sick children and my own worries on spreading a cold) Other than that the business themselves failed to meet there own times. In the end (after an interview was setup and hours away) they inform me of 1 of the 2 needed slots being taken and then stopped responding when I ask to interview for the last slot. They waited hours after seeing my response asking for the last slot then inform me they are cancelling all together, there is no room for 1 child when they have a sibling. After expressing my concern for the honesty and mentioning a review, I was accused of threatening the business (because I was going to negatively review them) In my opinion any business that says a negative review is a threat to the business and staff shows there is an underlying problem that I am glad I found out about before I entrusting any care of my children onto them. Honesty is not there main goal (In my personal experience) I hope this review isn't "threatening" as the owner accuses. EDIT: I added a photo showing the "threat" the owner accuses me of , The "threat" being a review on the internet.