Early Beginnings

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While by and large, the teachers are great, it's sad how disorganized, moody and unprofessional the administration is at this center. It's discouraging because there are so many neighborhoods in this community that would benefit from the convenience of this center, but it really is awful.

Early Beginnings is an excellent child care facility. It is clean and conducive to learning. The teachers and staff are kind and patient, and truly seem to enjoy the children. They are always respectful, and provide pertinent information- both verbally and in writing. My son has been attending early beginnings for approx 2 years now, and he loves it. He loves participating in the many activities such as art, music, outside play, etc. He is very social, kind, happy, and well adjusted, which I mostly attribute to the staff and environment at Early Beginnings. I highly recommend Early Beginnings.

Both of my children have attended this school since both were a year old. I give five stars because even when I had a problem with care, communication, or curriculum, I addressed the problem to multiple people and my problems were always resolved to my satisfaction. I am very involved and known for just showing up at random times during the day. If I did not like a classroom assignment (because I preferred a different teacher) the school administrators did as I asked. I will admit that there is some confusion as to who makes specific decisions and communication is not always 100% awesome, but because I ask questions and talk to my children and my children's teachers, I stay informed. And for the person who felt this is an expensive daycare,... check the prices at Chesterbrook, Goddard, Discovery Harbor, or Gateway Child Care. These are more expensive than Early Beginnings. I mean let's face it, child care is ridiculously expensive but you usually get what you pay for. I would recommend Early Beginnings to other parents, but regardless of the school a child is attending, tell parents to stay involved.

This is an expensive day care not to the level they say to be. They have rude and unprofessional administration staff. Teachers are just babysitters, they don't keep a close eye on kids and accidents happen often, they don't try to teach kids to play together and cleanliness is a problem.

My son has attended this day care since 2012 and they deserve the 5 star rating I am giving and that they have been given by the state of NC.



To address the previous bad posts for Aconcernparent, my son started this daycare at 3 months, the infant 1 rooms have plenty of toys, and bouncies for the children none of which were old and are on par with the toys that we have at home. For the Infant 1 room (newborns to about 6 months) I was particularly happy that the babies were not stuck in cribs all day and rather spend the majority of their waking time in a circle on the carpeted floor in boppies, bouncers, or on the laps of the staff so that they can interact and play with each other and the toys and get tummy time etc. Also, I don't know what the heck kind of phonics she thinks will be taught to an infant...that comment alone makes me believe that parent is a newbie at this mom thing and has unrealistic expectations. As for them feeling like their children do not receive nurturing and loving care, this is the first daycare I've been to where almost all of the staff knows EVERY child by name. That doesn't happen with an uncaring staff as Aconcernparent described.



As for Mommaof1.5, as a parent of a child who attends this day care, I am very glad they are not allowing anyone who decides to stroll up to the door the opportunity to walk through the halls at any given time on any given day. They have schedules for the children for eating, napping, learning, and play which would be disruptive if they had an open door policy having to escort any and everyone around 24/7. Scheduling an appointment was not an attempt to "hide anything", which is a silly assumption because parents with children attending have access at all times AND they have video cameras in EVERY room and playground which parents with attending children can access at any time from their computer or smart phone to watch their children.



As for you not receiving your courtesy call when the power went out, honey their priority is getting every one of those children safely home. They call EVERY SINGLE PARENT for EVERY SINGLE CHILD until they have contact and confirm a parent is on the way to pick up the children. If you could not be understanding to the fact that the safety and well being of the children was *gasp* put ahead of making sure visitors get a courtesy call...then I don't know what kind of center you're really looking for. The fact that waiting 20 minutes for a call back frustrated you to no end, lets me know you likely did not have reasonable expectations the first time you "waited for a call back you never received".



I usually do not write reviews, but we really enjoy this school and it bothers me when people make false accusations based on incorrect assumptions, and unrealistic expectations.

If a negative star was available I would have selected that.



I was not pleased with the quality of care my child received while attending this CDC infant program for the brief time they were there. The environment is not nurturing. There are few toys available for the children to play with and the toys that are there are old and lack attraction/lust. The toys were boring. The teachers do not engage with the children except for feeding or changing diaper other than that I felt my child was on their own. There was no reading of books or any type of lesson plan being done to at least introduce the infants to basic phonics. To me it was just not a good fit for my family because I prefer my child to receive nurture loving care and for the provider to be engaged with my child and concern with their well being.

I was impressed by the cleanliness of this center, and the like-new appeal to the building. It was what attracted me at first; however, I did not enroll my son because of the BAD service experience that I received here. I stopped in this location in with my 2-year old to see if I could take a tour. I was told no, that I would need to schedule a tour on one of their set tour days. I left my information with the desk clerk, and never received a call and ended up calling them back to schedule. I also felt that I should have been able to see behind the scenes without an appointment. It makes me wonder- oh you need to be prepared to put on a "show" for me in advance, you don't want us to see something that we are not supposed to see? Having an escort, should be acceptable to see any facility-ANY time, but that's just my opinion. Secondly, on the day of my scheduled appointment, I showed up, but the facility was closed down! Unexpected power outage. I can understand, crap happens, but give me a courtesy call!! Get more organized people! If you have set days to take tours on, check to see who you need to call back to cancel!-duh! AND thirdly, I called to try to talk to the director-I guess Tammy, to give this place one last shot. I explained I needed to talk to the director asap to find out if it was worth the time to even to reschedule, because I needed to find out if they could accommodate a particular PT schedule for my son, and that also I would have asked my question previously, if my tour wasn't botched up. She told me that they never had my number (I gave it to them 2 times, 2 separate dates, but I guess it was my fault!!) Also, that she will call the director who was out at the time, and will have her give me a call. That was yesterday, I did not hear back from her yet. I just called their main number, she answered the phone but basically said she was too busy at the moment, and that she would call me back in 20 minutes-rushed me off the phone. I had to ask her, do you have my number?! grrrr...this is what I get for moving out to a small town from a city. Limited choices, and facilities who know it. I work from home, so my schedule is flexible, but I do have a preference. Tammy did end up calling me back, but she was unable to switch 1 day around for me in their PT schedule. IE: They have set PT days. ALL of that frustration and no dice.