Description: Growing Generations Child Development Center is a Child Care Center in Hugo MN, with a maximum capacity of 139 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of Infants Toddlers Preschool School-Age. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
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| Report Date | Report Type | Report Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-03-01 | Reconsideration Response Correction Order | |
| 2018-02-06 | Correction Order | |
| 2017-09-08 | Correction Order | |
| 2017-06-08 | Correction Order | |
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Growing Generations is absolutely one of the best! It is and always will be easy for me to recommend for families who want the best experience for their children! The staff, directors, and owners are well trained and families love the center! This center concentrates on giving back to their families and staff. Growing Generations is a great asset for families and the children always love their experience! Best Center around!
Growing Generations is absolutely one of the best! It is and always will be easy for me to recommend for families who want the best experience for their children! The staff, directors, and owners are well trained and families love the center! This center concentrates on giving back to their families and staff. Growing Generations is a great asset for families and the children always love their experience! Best Center around!
Growing Generations DO NOT GO HERE, WHATEVER YOU DO. Jessica, the owner, is a good salesperson and will make you think she cares about your child. Unfortunately I have seen first hand that she does not care about children and should not be entrusted with the care of a child. My child went here for a number of years, and until she reached the pre-K classroom, she had a good experience with good teachers. We did notice that some of the best teachers seemed to leave abruptly, but we chalked that up to normal industry turnover. Her experience in Pre-K was dramatically different. My child immediately struggled with the transition, as it seemed like she was moved too early, without any of her friends, and the teachers in this class used harsher discipline strategies, such as writing a kid’s name on the board when they broke the rules (way to shame a child), raising their voices at the kids, focusing on blaming the children instead of teaching them how to behave better. The directors would act completely shocked and deny that this was going on, but we are confident as to what happened based on what we personally witnessed, heard from other parents, and from what our child told us. A weird thing I observed in this Pre-K classroom is that the teachers would refer to looking at surveillance cameras a lot to try and figure out a child’s “intent” when there was some kind of hitting or pushing incident. I always thought it was strange that they were so focused on understanding a 4 year old’s “intent” in determining “who was to blame.” Instead of just accepting that, you know, kids are kids and need guidance, not blame. Things just got worse. My kid pushed back against the teachers by hitting and pushing and talking back to teachers, which are things she had never done before, and never did anywhere outside of this classroom. Instead of trying to develop different strategies to better handle the behavior, the teachers just filled out incident reports. The director told us that the next steps would be to develop a behavior plan, although they never did actually sit down and do that with us. My kid told us that the teachers yelled at her, didn’t listen to her, and didn’t believe her when she tried to tell them if something was happening. Essentially, they would just tell us “your kid pushed someone” and then when we’d ask her about it, she’d tell us that someone was being mean to her, and she was trying to push them away from her. We kept telling her to talk to the teachers and couldn’t understand why she wasn’t asking for help. Once we finally learned about the types of harsh strategies they were using, it made more sense. She is a smart kid and realized the teachers weren’t actually there to help her out. The final straw for us came when they issued her a 1 day suspension for pushing another kid and hitting a teacher. When I called to ask what happened, they told me that after my kid pushed the other one, 3 directors, including the owner, Jessica, rushed into the room. Instead of attempting to help my kid calm down and talking with her about what happened, Jessica demanded that she sit down for snack and when my kid refused, Jessica said, “well I guess you don’t want snack then” and grabbed a cup out of her hand. My kid then hit Jessica. I’m sorry, but if you grab something from a kid, it’s a pretty normal reaction for them to hit you back. Plus, a big part of teaching young kids is role-modeling not to grab things. One of the directors proudly told me that they had recently kicked out 3 kids from the program for “behavioral issues” and that the entire class had a lot of “behavioral issues.” Weirdly enough, Jessica later completely denied that and said she is more than willing to work my kid, but by the time she told me this, I was done dealing with this crazy-making place that clearly did not care about kids. When I sat down to tell Jessica and the other directors that we were pulling my child from care, Jessica’s reaction was first to tell me that my daughter running around with a paper cup is a safety issue (what?), and when pressed as to why, told me that it’s because if my kid got away with it, the other kids would too. To me, that really just says it all. It’s about ensuring kids are compliant, not helping them learn and grow. As I wrote out my note stating that I was withdrawing, Jessica proceeded to lecture me about my bad parenting skills, how I shouldn’t believe my child because my child exaggerates, and how things I had personally witnessed couldn’t possibly be true. My child is now at a Kindercare program and she’s been doing excellent. This school has many long-term teachers who are clearly experienced with normal kid behaviors and care about the kids learning. The teachers have not seen the types of defiant behaviors that Growing Generations reported. Instead, they told me my kid will get upset, stiffen up (preparing for a fight like what she had at GG), and then when they use age appropriate calming strategies with her, she relaxes and cooperates. My kid is now, because of her experience at GG, extra sensitive about being “in trouble” so her new teachers have been really good at partnering with us to figure out what works, what makes sense, and what’s going to help her in the long run. I have heard from more than one other family that sends their kid to Growing Generations that they are either having, or had similar issues with harsh discipline, reports of their kids having serious behaviors that they don’t see at home, or unhinged behavior from Jessica. Don’t entrust this place with your child’s care, it’s not worth the heartache.
Understaffed, resulting in high staff turn over. Some mornings at drop off I would have to wait for another teacher to come before I felt comfortable leaving my child in the room with 15kids and 1 teacher aid. I would hear from my child "I got to visit the younger kids today" which must mean my child was moved to a different room to meet numbers. What bothered me the must about that is no one would tell me.
Director is beyond unprofessional and down right mean. She has kicked families out without providing a reason and has forced others to leave that have been with the center since opening. All in a effort to get new families in that are willing to pay higher tuition rates.