Description:
"An educational childcare center in Stafford, VA that will exceed your expectations. Visit our Stafford, VA Academy, meet our staff, see our classrooms and play on our playgrounds. We provide educational daycare in the greater Stafford, VA area that focuses on days filled with learning and fun, the key ingredients of our Life Essentials® educational philosophy. The smiles you’ll see on our children’s faces as they learn, share family style meals with other children, and grow socially will delight you. The words from our children’s parents about our program, safety and facility will impress you. We realize the tremendous level of trust you place in a childcare provider. You want your child to thrive in an environment that's as clean, safe and nurturing as your home. Kiddie Academy is more than daycare. We set the standards for safety, education and trust. Just ask the Kiddie Academy parents of Stafford, VA — they are our best references."
Babies have individual personalities. We cause uncover them.
Early youth improvement is basically imperative. At Kiddie Academy,® our experienced instructors and staff help encourage this time of learning, and that is the thing that isolates us from customary kid mind offices.
Our New Beginnings curriculum creates and fortifies every newborn child's distinction inside a tight-weave group. Your tyke will be allocated an essential educator to advance a more profound comprehension of your youngster's identity, likes and formative needs.
Life Essentials® is Kiddie Institute's restrictive formatively fitting educational modules and supporting projects, strategies, exercises and systems enable better to plan youngsters for life. Life Essentials gives your tyke a more joyful, more beneficial, all the more balanced establishment for what's to come. As it were, what kids learn at Kiddie Institute will set them up for school and forever.
At Kiddie Institute, we comprehend that babies are continually learning. Each time they hear another sound, they need to know where the sound originated from. When they look in a mirror, they need to know who is gazing back at them. With our New Beginnings curriculum, newborn children take in these aptitudes and numerous others for the duration of the day as they play and develop.
Kiddie Academy's New Beginnings curriculum is intended to create and strengthen every baby's individual needs through Life Basics. Youngsters take an interest in tactile based learning encounters while accepting positive, sustaining direction from exceedingly qualified instructors.
Regions of Advancement
The educational programs centers around six regions of improvement: Subjective, Correspondence, Enthusiastic, Fine Engine, Net Engine and Social Aptitudes.
Intellectual Skills: Infants are building their recollections, figuring out how to create words and figuring out how to perceive commonplace sounds. They're investigating with their hands and mouths. In our baby room, your kid will investigate diverse finished materials, play Look A-Boo and finish straightforward wooden riddles.
Correspondence Skills: By creating relational abilities, newborn children figure out how to express needs and needs to others. We comprehend the significance of our instructors continually speaking with your youngster. Our instructors read books and ballads, sing melodies and educate your kid how to put on finger plays.
Enthusiastic Skills: Emotional advancement includes newborn children feeling safe in their condition and secure with the grown-ups in their lives. We enable your youngster to fabricate trust and connections by viewing your baby's signs and reacting to them. Our educators embrace, support and walk your tyke around the classroom while looking at all that they see.
Fine Engine Skills: Fine engine abilities are created in the little muscle bunches like those in our fingers and hands. Our instructors enable newborn children to figure out how to get a handle on things and enable them to eat, shading and finish other day by day exercises. We help enhance pincer get a handle on by putting little sustenances in their grasp, at that point on their plate, so they can sustain themselves. They start to wave hi and farewell, and investigate earth and different articles with their hands.
Net Engine Skills: Gross engine improvement is the development of the vast muscle gatherings, similar to those in the legs and arms. Net engine aptitudes for newborn children incorporate holding up their heads, moving over, creeping and pulling themselves up. Kiddie Institute educators talk urging words to enable your tyke to move over. We give your newborn child a lot of tummy time, and our babies move to various types of music and take strolls around the institute, all around.
Social Skills: An newborn child's social abilities comprise of grinning, looking, mimicking outward appearances and needing to be near other individuals. Kiddie Institute is where your kid will see various, yet reliable and commonplace countenances. Our educators show great conduct and legitimate social aptitudes to your newborn child. Your tyke will venture out around the institute to meet others—instructors and youngsters—and will play close companions in her age-suitable classroom to build up the early obligations of fellowship.
At Kiddie Institute, STEM is coordinated all through our Life Essentials curriculum.
A baby encounters STEM learning through normal interest, availability to rehash activities that have a fascinating impact, and the need to investigate and comprehend their general surroundings. Newborn children will have chances to influence disclosures in the classroom and outside, to utilize their entire bodies to investigate and learn, control articles to perceive how they function, and start to create vocabulary words identified with STEM through books, tunes, and finger plays.
Where possible, ChildcareCenter provides inspection reports as a service to families. This information is deemed reliable, but is not guaranteed. We encourage families to contact the daycare provider directly with any questions or concerns, as the provider may have already addressed some or all issues. Reports can also be verified with your local daycare licensing office.
| Inspection Date | SHSI | Complaint Rated | Violations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-23 | No | No | Yes |
| 2024-02-23 | Yes | No | No |
| 2023-09-11 | No | No | Yes |
| 2023-09-11 | Yes | No | Yes |
| 2023-05-12 | No | Yes | Yes |
| 2023-03-22 | No | No | Yes |
| 2023-03-22 | Yes | No | No |
| 2022-11-02 | No | No | Yes |
| 2022-11-02 | Yes | No | No |
| 2022-08-29 | No | No | Yes |
| 2022-03-02 | No | Yes | No |
| 2022-02-23 | No | No | Yes |
| 2022-02-23 | Yes | No | No |
| 2021-12-15 | No | No | No |
| 2021-12-08 | Yes | No | No |
If you are a provider and you believe any information is incorrect, please contact us. We will research your concern and make corrections accordingly.
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If you value your children's safety DO NOT send them here. I had two children enrolled at Kiddie academy in Stafford, a three year old and an infant. I should have known there was something wrong when my 3 year old would cry every single day my husband or I dropped her off. Do not be fooled by the camera system. We were told by the director when we first started that if there was ever a problem, we could review the footage. My infant was left of the floor for most of the day, to the point where she would fall asleep. She was also left sleeping in a boppy and when I checked in on her, there was another baby asleep FACE DOWN in another boppy. There are no structured activities/curriculum like we were promised either. One day I decided to pick up my children early and I had been watching on the camera and did not see my infant fed. I put labels on my bottles (that ink bleeds when in the steamer) and one of my bottles the ink wasn't bleed. When I brought this to the directors attention to review the footage, they threatened to cancel my contract. The excuse I received from the owner was "there must not have been water in the streamer". Any parent knows bottle steamers don't work without water. The owner refused to show me the live feed and instead showed me screen shots (no date or time stamp). I could not see what my child was wearing to confirm the feeding was on the actual day/time in question, and I still believe they dumped out my break milk because my child was very hungry as soon as we got back home and when I fed her she nursed for a good 10 minutes. Next, we are a military family and they stole $554 dollars from us. After canceling our contract they signed paperwork to terminate our contract through Child Care Aware. Kiddie Academy then charge us for an additional week AFTER the day our care was terminated. They are stating that we needed to give them two weeks notice when they are the ones who canceled our contract. No where in the contract does it say that if they cancel then 2 weeks notice is required. In addition, the owner is the one that filled out the paperwork with a termination date of March 7th. If she intended to charge us for an additional week, than she should not have put that as a termination date. Instead she charged us for an additional week at the full price without our subsidy. Then she said she offered us an additional two weeks to "find care". Absolutely not. First, I am not obligated to have my children in their care for an additional two weeks. We already didn't trust them and had safety issues that were not resolved. I am most certainly not going to let my children be entrusted in their care for another two weeks while they are terminating our contract. God knows what could have happened that they would have tried to cover up. We declined the two weeks and the owner agreed to the termination date and put it on our paperwork. Then she lied and charged us anyway. Everything you see in their school curriculum is a joke. My 3 year old on very rare occasions brought something home. 90% of the time I checked in on her the kids were just in a free for all in the classroom. My three old told me at least 2-3 per week that her teachers yelled at the class and they were mean. I watched another kid come over and take toys away from my three year old, while the teachers just sat there not paying attention. There is no audio, but I know what my child looks like when she cries. She was curled up in the corner crying until another little girl went and got the teacher and brought her over. Lastly, the center also has a recent investigation for a teacher shoving a 2 year old (you can google it) There is really a laundry list of other things too. Parents are not allowed in the building so you have no idea who is taking care of your children. We were never told that the teacher in our 3 year old's room quit. Another parent ran into the teacher recently and she said she left because of all the things happening "behind the scenes". I would check in on the cameras and they wouldn't have enough teachers in the room. On valentines day I checked in, there were over 20 kids in the class. Stafford school was closed and they allowed school age children in the 3 year old class and did not tell us! You know that gut feeling you have as a parent when you know something isn't right? Well that's the feeling I had every single moment while my kids were there. I know I am spot on with this because my girls have been attending another daycare for the last couple weeks and its night and day. My 3 year old is excited to go to school. She doesn't cry when she gets dropped off and in fact on several occasions she doesn't want to leave. My infant is so happy when I pick her up and she is actually doing sensory activities and sign language, not just left on the floor to roll around and sleep. I would warn every parent and especially military families....do not send your children here.
New building everything clean and you can see your kids thru the cameras this is just amazing peace of mind is incredible teacher are amazing