About the Provider
Description: Little Bears Childcare and Preschool is a Group Family Day Care in Verbank NY, with a maximum capacity of 16 children. The home-based daycare service helps with children in the age range of Total Capacity: 12 children, ages 6 weeks to 12 years AND 4 additional school-aged children . The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
Additional Information: This facility is authorized to administer over-the-counter topical ointments only; Initial License Date: 10/17/1991;
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Do not send your child to this daycare.
Do not be fooled by the warm smile and upbeat personality that you are initially welcomed by the owner. Any questions about her care taking or issues that may have arisen during your time there are met with defensiveness, manipulative jargon, or trying to turn the blame onto your child or you the parent.
Several times we had caught the owner in a lie which then quickly escalated to the point that we had the need to pull our daughter from that daycare before our contract was up, because we did not feel comfortable with leaving our child alone with this woman. Furthermore, the owner would talk trash about the other parents and give us excuses as to why other parents stopped bringing their children to the daycare.
At best the owner is passive-aggressive, petty, and unprofessional. At worst she is manipulative, condescending, narcissistic, and a liar. After several uncomfortable interactions we decided to take our child out of daycare, and the last several weeks we were there we were met with increasing hostility and rudeness from the owner.
Unfortunately for us, we found out that this is not an uncommon experience, and other members of the local community have voiced the same if not more concerns regarding the owner and the daycare itself.
The decision as to why we left Little Bears Daycare has now been confirmed by the numerous other local parents and daycare facilities in the area that have had a similar or worse experience, or that they know someone who has. Likewise, others have heard nothing but bad things about “Miss Ivonne” and Little Bears Daycare.
Unfortunately for us we were new to the area and desperate for care. We are writing this review in the hopes that other parents do not make the same mistake as we did. There is a reason she always seems to “have an opening” available.