Bumble Bee Academy - North Little Rock AR Child Care Center

Very unprofessional, was yelled at by one of the daycare workers for no reason.

I am very thankful to have found such a loving, caring, well-rounded facility. The owner has displayed much warmth, concern, and understanding of my children’s needs, physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially. She has implemented great strategies to promote assertiveness and self-confidence in my youngest son by encouraging communication among the older children as “helpers”, which in turn teaches the older children empathy, compassion, and builds their level of confidence at the same time. My children have been in other daycare facilities since the day they were born, and have much lacked the “one-on-one” that they needed. I thought I had found the perfect daycare at another facility BEFORE registering my children at Bumblebee academy; however, the LORD knew what my children needed, and JUST as I was about to fax my application to this other facility, I heard “Not there.” Confused by this, I questioned what the Lord had meant. As I began looking over the list of possible alternative, BumbleBee stuck out as a place my friend had once recommended (although she says she can’t remember—another God thing!). I am extremely grateful that I listened and took the step to register my precious children at Bumblebee Academy. I have peace of mind knowing that my children will be safe, have quality care, and their individual needs are being addressed; There’s no greater gift to a working mom! I am very thankful for the director’s honesty coupled with her true compassion and love for the overall well-being of the children. This has been lacking from every OTHER daycare that I have found. The Lord sure knows what He is doing!

Ms. Laura and her Staff are excellent. My child has been at Bumble Bee since he was 3 months and this year he’s in kindergarten. I was a first time parent and very nervous about placing my child in hands of people I knew nothing about. Ms. Laura was very kind and understanding of my concerns. I’m so thankful for the love and care my child receives. He doesn’t want to leave when I pick him up. He always ask if I can pick him up later. I would recommend this center.

My child had attended Bumble Bee Academy for 6 months,until 3 days ago, when the owner terminated my childs care, because she took my opinion personally on a committee she asked me to be Vice President of. Overall, Bumble Bee provides the kids with a great learning environment, I would not take that away from them, but the owner is very unstable. She has some mental constraints that does not provide for a safe environment for the kids to be in. She brings her problems to work, and tends to show that in the way she talks to and treats the staff and the kids at the daycare. She does not know how to separate home and everyday life from work. I have informed her of that before as a concerned parent. She has several dramatic and unpredictable outburst, and up and down mood swings. I am a healthcare professional, and I work around patients with mental health issues. I know overall she has the best interest of the kids in mind, but she is not mentally stable to run the daycare. She is a nice lady, and I never thought because she did not like my opinion I expressed as a committee member, that she would get upset and terminate my baby's care. She admitted to me that she has so much going on in her life, and in addition to it, she felt that I was pushing her. I informed her that I have an opinion I am entitled to and I am direct. She stated that my child can come back to the daycare if I wanted her to, but I don't have to deal with her(owner)directly. She said I can communicate with my child's teacher only, and the teacher can display messages to her. I don't have to deal with her all. I told her that does not make sense, which shows the mental instability. Why would I want my child there, but I don't have an open line of communication with the director. That alone makes me feels that my child would be in an unsafe environment. There was so much more that occurred in between, but this display really showed me that she needs to receive help mentally, before she can run the daycare appropriately. She took her own personal biases to my opinion, and made a business decision to terminate my baby's care, so I only feels the need to write this review, because it is the business professional thing to do. I pray for the owner, and I hope that she receives the help that she needs mentally.

Excellent! I drive 20 miles from home to take my grand child there. She gets nutritious food as well as good care and loves it there.