Description: Wonderful Virginia Academy, LLC is a Licensed Child Day Center in Woodbridge VA, with a maximum capacity of 141 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of 0 years 1 months to 12 years 11 months. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
So, let me just say this place seemed amazing when I signed my 5 month up. The director and staff were so nice. The infant room was huge and smelt clean, compared to other daycare's I toured. Also, their weekly part-time rates and even full-time rates were amazing (But, with cheap prices means cheaper pay on the staff). My daughter went for 3 days then contracted the Roseola virus from another baby there. First off, most daycare's from what I've been told, usually have to put up a sign stating what kind of sickness is going around...this place does not do that. My baby was sick for 2 weeks, so I could not bring her to daycare. When she was better, I brought her back to daycare and when I picked her up on her first day back, her onesie was filthy...now mind you, I had 3 onesies and several other outfits in her little cubby, so that when she does spit up milk, or get pee on herself, they could change her...they did not. So the next day I just asked the caregivers that they please change her if she spits up on herself they said they would. I picked her up later that day, she was filthy again. Once I got home I went to change my daughters diaper and to my surprise she was not wearing the brand or diapers I had provided them to use on her. I didn't think anything of it really, I just thought, oh maybe she ran out of diapers already and they forgot to tell me. So the next time I picked her up from daycare, and the time after that, she was yet again, in someone else's diapers. I buy the pamper swaddles, that have the blue line in the center so you can tell when she has wet herself, and these diapers she would come home in were just generic plain diapers (the pampers I bought her had sesame street characters on them). I ended up just asking one of the caregivers to let me know if she has run out of diapers, they told me she still has about 10 diapers left but to get more for the next week, so I ended up buying a big box of 148 but only brought in half that come in clear packaging (which was 74 diapers). The last day my daughter was a daycare, I came to pick her up and was told she was a little fussy and was in a quiet room, so they showed me where to go and when I opened this blue door, her favorite caregiver was with her along with another caregiver and two other babies. My daughters caregiver immediately started talking to me very aggressively saying "You hold her too much at home, you can't be holding her all the time. You make my job difficult, and I don't have time to watch her anymore. I have 2 other babies I have to watch too and all your baby wants to do is be picked up and held..." I kept telling her that my husband and I actually don't hold her that much, and before I could get another word out or tell her that her grandparents hold her a lot and that shes been fussy at home due to teething, she just cut me off and repeated herself over and over again...Ok, first off NO ONE SHOULD EVER ASSUME OR TELL A PARENT HOW TO RAISE THEIR OWN CHILD, PERIOD! Needless to say I was furious. I picked up my daughter and went straight home to call the daycare director, who was not there. So I spoke with someone else and told them exactly what happened. They just kept apologizing and saying she should have never spoke to me that way. I told her had this caregiver spoke to me in a calm way, and only made suggestions or recommendations to help with my childs care, I would not be so pissed off. So...I ended up taking my daughter right out of that daycare. When I went to drop off my last weeks tuition the director was extremely rude. My husband even said they were extremely rude to him when he had gone the week before to pick up her diapers and clothes. BTW, when he picked up her diapers, there were half of the 74 missing and I had just brought those diapers in on her last day...so how did MY CHILD use 37 diapers in 1 day??? Yea, this daycare obviously uses diapers on other babies. I would NOT recommend this daycare to any parent with an INFANT. It does look like toddlers and childern enjoy this daycare, but this is not the right place for babies.