Covina KinderCare

My baby has been going to this kindercare since she was three months. She is 6 months now and both she and I love it. The staff in the infant room are really friendly and great with the kids. They are always willing to answer my first time mom questions and keep me updated both verbally and with a written activity sheet about what my baby did and on her progress. We live far away, so I commute with my baby to work over on that side of LA county, but my baby never fusses in the morning because she gets to go to «school» as we call it. I love that they will take pictures of her doing certain activities, and seem to be enriching her during the day. Sometimes it can seem to get crazy in the infant and toddler room, but that is normal for any setting with a group of kids. They always have a 4 to 1 ratio with the kids (which the state law only requires 8 to 1) and an open door policy for the parents so parents can pop by to pick up or check up on they kids. They staff have been really great about accommodating some special instructions I have for my baby and always lets me know what they can or can not do. I also really like that this is all kinda corporate, so there are certain standards and policies they have to do and can not do. I am extremely happy with this center so far. They director her is also great! When picking up my baby, she is always friendly and greets both parents and kids. You can tell she loves her job and the kids love her when I see them run up to her to tell her about their day. Not all kindercares are created equal but this one is great!

Great school teachers are awesome with all the children. Teachers put a lot of effort into all the children

Great daycare! The staff is caring and great with the children. The kids are learning so much.

We have been bringing our 2 boys Elias & Lucas here since we moved into the area, they helped us with the potty training with both here & also were a huge help with our youngest while he was doing speech therapy. They certainly know what they’re doing here. They have become an extended part of our little family.

Grateful they are located so close to my home. It’s PRICEY but worth it for my boys. My oldest learned so much here & was ready for Kindergarten before he was 5 y.o. They are open when regular school is closed & when we (PARENTS) have to work. They have fun activities during the summer time. Thankful in general to have all these ladies watching my boys while I’m at work.

After 1 year of attending this center my daughter’s teacher didn’t know her name. During the parent teacher conference the teacher repeatedly called her by another name and never used the correct name. She didn’t mispronounce the name. She used an entirely different name.
When my daughter began attending she was able to recite her ABCs, identify all the basic colors, count to 20, and recognize approx 20+ sight words. During the parent teacher conference mentioned above the teacher indicated that my daughter did not know her ABCs, colors, numbers or shapes. This was a year after she began attending Kindercare at which time she already displayed all of these abilities. We thought Kindercare would build on the foundation my wife and I had laid in regards to my daughter’s early childhood development. We were sadly mistaken.
I believe the teacher’s lack of engagement with my daughter was due to the large class size. When we began they claimed the class size would be 8 to 10 students per instructor — which is a lot when dealing with children of this age. When we dropped her off and picked her up, however, we routinely saw almost twice this ratio.
I only blame the teacher in part. After all, it’s up to her to learn the children’s names. I also blame the director for setting her up to fail. Class sizes need to be reasonable if you expect the care to be adequate. Kindercare, at least this site, is more concerned with maximizing their profit than providing the best quality environment for the kids. I wish they understood that if the care was better, more parents would enroll their children and Kindercare would still make money. That’s why I hit them where it hurts and took my daughter and her tuition elsewhere.
Finally, once we made the decision to remove my daughter from this center we found less expensive care where my daughter has made substantially more progress in less time. I kick myself for wasting all that time my daughter could have been developing elsewhere.
I would look elsewhere if I were you.

I visited this KinderCare in hopes of finding a good environment for my son to be in while I am working. I met with the assistant to the director who gave me a tour. When I got to the classroom I noticed a distinct smell of urine. I looked to my wife and asked her if she smelled anything funny. She immediately identified the smell as urine. I asked the assistant about the smell but she was unable to provide reason for the classroom smelling. The assistant offered a free day and told me that there usually isn’t a smell (asked me to try it out). I accepted and dropped my son off (to their credit, it seemed like they aired the classroom out and sprayed febreeze. even though I could still smell some urine it wasn’t dominating the classroom as the previous day. Mid day I get a call from the center’s director informing me that I should not have been given a free day. When I informed her that I did not ask for the free day and was more than willing to pick up my son in about 10 minutes she repeated the same («you shouldn’t have gotten a fee day») and said that I did not have to pick him up. I’m not sure what the goal of the call was but it was unnecessary (considering she didn’t want me to pick my son up) and drove me away. I ALWAYS steer clear of poor business practice as it is often an indicator of other poor business practices.

I remember when I was a kid and went to this one. I had a bully indeed and he just seemed to get a slap on the hand for hitting me and g-​d forbid if I retaliated I was the one sent to the office. Whats more if you are worried about enforcement of Bathroom gender rules they do not do that there. Even though most don’t think to examine each other I understand some parents might find this disturbing. Keep in mind this was 18 years ago so they may have improved since 1994. I even remember seeing one of the caretakers accidentally push a kid the same one that bullied me too hard on the swing and he landed and literally ate sand. All I can say is if their enforcement hasn’t improved over the years brace yourself for the possibility that your son or daughter might embrace violence as an acceptable response to anger or that they must never get angry cause it gets them in trouble. What is more if you want seconds on snacks or lunch or whatever you gotta sing some retarded song first so if your child is a bit more mature for their age they may find this very annoying. I understand they are probably trying to teach self control this way but still would it kill them to at least pick songs that are both clean and fun to sing? That is about all so yeah not sending my kids to any preschool and they are to blame.