Odessa Day Nursery

I absolutely love this place! The many activities keep them busy and learning and the playground is so much fun, its huge with more equipment than any other ive seen, and the biggest sandbox that is all shaded with a roof on it. The teachers are awesome, very hardworking. If they aren't playing and making your kids laugh, they're breaking up a fight, watching over protectively or helping your tired little one join the pack. I love how the age groups don't have to stay in their one designated room most the day like traditional daycares, they go from room to room with each activity. I noticed the way the teachers pay attention to make sure when a child grabs a toy away they have the child give it back and go get their own, and that they allow and encourage male toddlers to hold baby dolls and make believe wash dishes, too, as well as allowing girls to climb and get dirty in the sand if they choose, things that some teachers elsewhere try to limit based on gender. I think the babies and toddlers teachers are stern or look stern in general to make the kids take them seriously when it's time to prepare to switch activities for example, but I noticed them giving out individual signs of affection to each of the kids here and there when the kids wanted a smile or fist bump or hug or wanted picking up. For their Halloween party the staff dressed up and decorated nicely and had a magician come for the kids. My daughter comes home singing new songs and dancing new dances,speaking sentences with new words. She is excited to go to school and wants down out of my arms when we arrive at the door so she can burst through and say good morning!! And go sit down to breakfast. She is proud of her artwork she does there too.My husband was made to show his ID when picking her up for the first time which I was grateful for. The managers always takes the time to talk about anything you want to know and they are warm people over the phone and in person. The facility is nice and clean and organized with bright colors and a pleasant or clean odor, never like urine as in many other facilities. I also loved how when snack time was done, damp rags were passed out to the babies to wipe their hands faces and spot. I watched the kids enjoy cleaning with a sense of responsibility, they were proud to help. I really recommend this daycare!

Very disappointed at this day care u would think as time would go by they would of gotten better but no instead it's got worse I had too move my girls schools because of them .. My kids would cry when I would try and leave them so they would tell me I coulnt leave them if they stayed crying the staff is very rude don't help u when you go in their they just stare at you with out saying nothing I should of listen when a bunch of other people told me of what of a horrible place this was :/