Description: CHITNENI, LAKSHMI is a FAMILY DAY CARE HOME in SUNNYVALE CA, with a maximum capacity of 14 children. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
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| Type | Inspection Dates | Reports/Citations |
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| Summary | 12/13/2019, 12/14/2017, 06/22/2016 | Type B Citation: 5; |
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If there would be an option to give zero star about this CHITNENI, LAKSHMI, a FAMILY DAY CARE HOME in Sunnyvale CA , i would have given that. This lady is really very worst i have ever seen . She does not know how to manage kids or basically infants. She claims that she is taking infants. She asked me to get the things and amount . She mentioned about 8:30 am to 5:30 pm for the day care time. My baby who is just seven month old started going there . One month he managed and next month he fell sick very badly. This lady was not taking care of him even his pediatric told me that there is a problem in his day care. One lady saw him in the day care and she told me that Lakshmi is putting pacifier in his mouth again and again whenever he is crying. She was not even caring him when he was crying like , if he is hungry he needs milk or food. Whenever i pick my baby from day care , he would always be crying. Because she was not feeding him well , he used to be so hungry after day care hours that , he was taking formula more than his diet even he kept on crying in car for food / milk. So one month finally he completed. next month he got sick , I did not send him day care for 2-3 weeks. 4 week when he started going , i dropped him at 8:30 am , in evening at 5 pm my husband picked him . The she started fighting that i can't keep your baby from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. My time is 11am to 4 pm. She said that other parents are picking their child at 4 pm , if you want me to take care of your child from 8:30 to 5:30 pm i need extra 200$. Then i replied that you initially gave this time 8:30 to 5:30 pm . Now why are you saying this. She said that i expect kids here at 11 am to 4pm. If she is earning money from this profession she should love kids. She said that because of your kid i can't cook my home food. And he eats a lot. I have to give him more food. Your food is not enough whatever you are giving. Notice this thing i gave her formula jar when my baby started going day care , till 2 and half months she never asked me for formula jars. First i thought that may be he is not taking that much milk but after reading above reviews and noticing about his milk intake after day care hours my doubt becomes clear that she is not feeding him properly. While in my home , formula jar finishes in 10 days. But in this case this formula jar is not even finished in two and half months. She is greedy for money. She prefers if kids keep on sleeping and she does not need to do anything. She will never allow you to pickup and drop in the house. She herself comes at the gate and ask you to wait there. She does not want to show where kids are. May be big kids can survive there. But for infants this place is hell and this lady is witch. Even b**** would be better than her.
This lady (Lakshmi Chitneni) is another name of corruption/cheating. -When she was working in Namaste Plaza (next to Swathi Tiffins, Lawrence Exp way), she used to sell the new movie DVD's for $1 extra than the quoted price, if anyone interested in taking them. And that extra $1 is for her. That is how she started her career in the US. -After that she worked in Macy's and then as an assistant to some other home based day care and then started her own day care. -In her family daycare (Chitneni family daycare/Lakshmi daycare) she never keeps any assistants to save her income. When she knows that somebody is going to come to join their kid there, then only on that particular day/week for few hours she calls an assistant to show to the parents that she has a helper for her. Later on, when we ask about the helper, she tells one or the other reason. As per the rules of daycare, for every 8kids they should hire a helper. -One important/weird thing in her daycare, she will never keep the kids in a place visible to the parents when she opens the door. Morning when we knock the door, she just opens the door, take the kid and closes the door. Evening while picking up the kid, when we knock the door, she opens the window blinds to see whose parent came for the pick up, brings the kid and gives to the parents. Neither she allows the parents to enter inside nor she keeps the kids in a place visible to parents when she opens the door. I have not observed/heard of this process in any other daycare. -This kind of process raises many doubts to us. In what kind of environment the kid is playing and how exactly she is maintaining it. Also whenever parents make a sudden visit, you can see the shivering in her face. Then she immediately empties all the snack boxes if there are any and gives the empty boxes to inform parent that she is actually taking care of the kid. -She never feeds the kids properly as she alone has to manage 12 kids(or more). It is very hard for us to take complete care of one/two/three kids in our home. Moreover my kid takes minimum of 1hour to finish lunch/snack. But she alone manages 12 kids. That makes it obvious how much time she is spending for the taking care of the kids and why the kids are always hungry when we go and pick up. -During lunch time, she keeps 2-3 kids before her and feeds the food from one bowl with the same spoon which I got to know from my kid. Also, this lady is a volunteer in a temple and brings the leftover food from there and feeds the stale food the next day. My kid used to fall sick very frequently. -Initially I was under the impression that she was feeding the kids properly based on her sweet words. Slowly I observed that, evening when I pick up the kid, he was always hungry and used to crave/cry for food as if food was never given to him. This tells me that even his lunch was not proper lunch. (forget about the evening snacks/milk) -One might be wondering, how she alone is managing (or, so called taking care of) 12kids. On top of this, let me tell you some other interesting things. She has other business/jobs. She sells curries to nearly 8-10 families on Sundays. For that she starts cutting her home grown vegetables from at least mid of the week onwards and keeps them in the freezer. This can tell to parents how much time she can spend on kids to feed them. Not just this, she will go for another job in a store after day care. A person managing the kids without any helpers and working for her business/job, clearly explains the quality care you get for your kid at this home daycare. Each and every word I mentioned above are 200% true. I would recommend this daycare to any parent !!!