Botanic Gardens Children’s Center

This is the most wonderful day care you’ll find in Cambridge. If you can get a spot, don’t hesitate and enroll your child immediately. The teachers are warm and caring, teach topics that interest the kids, and there’s two playgrounds that are owned by the school, in addition to all the various play areas available around the school. My children never want to leave and look forward to seeing their teachers and classmates everyday!

Awesome spot! Great rooms for the kiddos, and the staff is friendly and smart.
It’s expensive (as is pretty much every option in Cambridge), but you get awesome programs, and a great teacher-​student ratio (there were four teachers for seven students for the majority of the day).
Worth the money for the great program and location.

If you’re looking to send your child to a daycare where they’re well taken care of, look no further. If I had children and money, this is where they’d be. I’ve worked here as a substitute throughout my college summers because I love it am happy to promote this school.
This daycare definitely has a sense of community. Many families start with their children in the infant classroom and keep them there until the child is ready to go to Kindergarten. I constantly hear parents planning to have their children meet up outside of school, and go out to dinner. As a worker, I know almost all of the children and their parents. There are about 60 children in the school, ranging in age from 3 months to 5 years.
The families at this daycare are highly diverse, with families from all over: Germany, Korea, Japan, Poland, Israel, and more. It principally serves the Harvard community, but also accepts applications from non-​Harvard students/​staff.
Teachers are caring and creative, constantly coming up with innovative activities. The daycare really focuses on exploration of the world through science projects, art, free play, and imagination. There is a good-​sized playground, with one side geared towards smaller kids, and the other side for the older ones who want to climb and run around. There’s also a large grassy area that is frequently utilized on hot days.
It’s not totally perfect, though. Turnover is rapid. Most of the teachers work here for a year or two and use the place as a springboard before moving on to teaching jobs in local public or private schools. Staff is constantly changing. Another downfall is that the school is somewhat unaffordable. The money factor also makes room for the occasional bit of snobbery directed from parents toward the teachers, but at the end of the day I try to just laugh it off and remember that being polite is the epitome of class, not cash.