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| - A great daycare with affordable prices! My kids have been at Imagination Station for years and it is a great place to have your kids. This is NOT like the typical chain daycares like Tutor Time. This feels like a homey place, a friendly place, where your kids are not just a paycheck to the staff.
Recently, my children's mother wanted to have them go to a new daycare to try it out (she had insurance that allowed for a few days of free daycare at one of the bigger chain daycares). I am the one primarily doing drop off and pick ups for daycare and upon entering this other chain daycare, immediately compared it to Imagination Station.
The staff were nice, but felt very formal and "on the surface". They had all the latest gadgets for checking kids in and out, computer scanners and such. The rooms were fine, but felt a bit cluttered to me (note: I am school teacher so i understand about classroom clutter). The rooms just felt a bit small as well. Upon picking the kids up, their jackets were missing. They looked around but couldn't find them. I pressed them to keep looking as it seemed like they were trying to shrug it off, saying "oh well, they don't really have their own cubby yet so that can happen". Well i'm sorry but that is not an acceptable answer! After about 10-15 minutes of looking in many different rooms, finally a teacher said, "you know what? I think maybe another parent took home their jackets by accident." They said they would try and get inn touch with the parent. Indeed, a few DAYS later, the jackets were returned. In the meantime, I couldn't just go and buy NEW jackets so my kids had to wear the smaller ones from the previous year. Overall, it was just not a good experience.
At Imagination Station, this has happened and begin that it is a smaller place than the chain daycare mentioned above, they were quick to see it wasn't there. They immediately called another parent about it that had a similar jacket (as they remembered) and the very next day our jacket was back. Heck, one time I picked up another kids jacket and I got a call within a half hour that there was a mixup. Imagination Station feels like you are getting hands on care for your children while these chain daycares just do not feel like that (and yes, my kids did go to that chain daycare, once a week, for about five weeks straight so this was not a feeling i developed after one visit).
If you are looking for a daycare where the staff care and have an interest in you and your family, this would be the perfect choice. If you have to keep up with the Joneses and wish to spend more money for a name brand daycare, go ahead, it's your money.
I can throughly recommend Imagination Station as a place to take your kids to!
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