Description: We provide learning child care that focuses on days filled with education and fun, the key ingredients of our Life Essentials® educational philosophy. The smiles you’ll see on our children’s faces will delight you. The words from our children’s parents will impress you.
Daycare is a word that we use, but here it means something different. Our facilities are designed to be places children can grow as individuals and prepare for life. Not all of our learning has to do with reading or numbers; character education and social interaction both play a big part in our preschool curriculum. Kiddie Academy children learn how to get along with each other, to share and to be grateful along with their ABC’s and 123’s.
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 Cary, NC — they are our best references.
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.
| Date | Type | Violations | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-02 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2024-03-22 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
| 2024-03-22 | Violation | 1877 | .1803(a)(10) |
| A child was restrained as a form of discipline and the child's safety or the safety of others was not at risk. A 21 month old child was stated to have been put into a chair with a seatbelt, to contain the child while other children's diapers were changed. | |||
| 2024-02-15 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
| 2024-02-15 | Violation | 1049 | .1102(d) |
| All staff did not successfully complete certification in CPR training appropriate to the age of the children in care. Verification of staff completion of the CPR course from an approved training organization was not in the staff file. One caregiver did not have documentation of current CPR on file. | |||
| 2023-08-21 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
| 2023-08-21 | Violation | 106 | 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) |
| Operator has not scheduled and obtained a fire inspection within 12 months of the previous inspection. Operator did not submit the original approved report to DCDEE within one week of the inspection visit on a form provided by the Division. A fire inspection completed in the last year was not able to be observed. | |||
| 2023-02-21 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
| 2023-02-21 | Violation | 1824 | .0607(e) |
| The trained staff did not review the EPR Plan annually or when information in the plan changed to ensure all information was current. The operation's EPR plan was last updated October 2019. | |||
| 2022-10-27 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
| 2022-10-27 | Violation | 325 | 0.1802 |
| Staff did not interact with children in positive ways by helping them feel welcome and comfortable, treating them with respect, listening to what they say, responding to them with acceptance and appreciation, and/or participating in activities with the children. A teacher did not positively interact with children by using inappropriate tone of voice and body language. | |||
| 2022-10-27 | Violation | 851 | .0803(13)(a-e); .2318(3) |
| When medication was administered, documentation was not completed or maintained for 6 months and/or the documentation did not include the required information. Medication permissions were not on file for 2 emergency medications maintained in the front office. | |||
| 2022-07-25 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2022-05-25 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2022-04-11 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
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The facility is nice, and we especially liked the teacher of the younger infant class (Ms. Acecily). She was very caring and sang or did activities with the kids when there wasn't a baby to be fed or changed. However the management at Kiddie Academy of Cary is dysfunctional and untrustworthy. On our tour, we were told that our child would never be moved out of his room. From the very first day and everyday after that (without informing me first), my child was moved from the younger infant room to the older infant room at 4:30. Prior to signing the contract, we asked about the vacation policy (2 weeks off at half tuition after being there for 6 months) and mentioned that we take vacations in December (only 3 months after we started). The director told us that they make exceptions, and that that should not be a problem. We also asked about the policy with the deposit; if things didn't work out (due to, for example illness) and we couldn't give 4 weeks notice, would we lose the deposit. She again said that it is a case-by-case basis and she has never not refunded a deposit. Needless to say, everything we asked about prior to signing became an issue. The owner and director are not on the same page; the owner is a stickler for his contract, and in retrospect it seems like the director says whatever the customers want to hear to get people to sign.
We ended up taking our child out of daycare due to health reasons; he was far too distracted to feed well there; he started daycare at the 10th percentile for weight and ended up in the 3rd percentile after 4.5 months. We walked in first thing on a Monday morning to talk to the director to inform them that our son would no longer be attending the daycare effective immediately. We didn't question her when she said the deposit would be taken (despite what was discussed about the deposit prior to signing). We did however ask if the tuition we paid for that week could be refunded, and she said that that shouldn't be a problem. And of course, it was a problem. The owner refuses to refund us the tuition, and he hasn't given an explanation as to why.
Another area of frustration was that whatever requests we made were always initially denied. We had to have at least 2 or more conversations with the director before she stopped to actually think what we were asking for. We saw that we weren't the only parents who had to do this. Example: When our child first started solids, we asked that his food be heated. The teacher was new and told us to ask the director. The director told us that there was no way for the center to heat up baby food, and that baby food does not need to be heated. Thus we sent our child with only fruity purees because he wouldn't eat his veggie purees cold. Later on, we found out that the teacher in the older infant classroom was heating up baby food in the bottle warmers, so we really don't understand why we were told that it could not be done. Another example: When we asked why our child's food was being transferred from his tupperware to a school bowl when it can easily just be fed from his own bowl (and thus minimizing food waste from transferring), the director said that it was a sanitation regulation. Except I checked with another 5 star daycare, and it isn't. We're also told that kids cannot be in sleepsacks without a dr's note because it is a state regulation. Again, it isn't. The state allows sleepsacks in daycares without a doctors note. The over-the-top restrictions that the teachers have to follow at this particular daycare makes me think that they care more about maintaining a perfect sanitation grade than what is in the best interest of the children.
It's a shame that the management was so poor for an otherwise nice facility and teachers.