Decatur First United Methodist Church

We enrolled our son at Decatur DFUMC’s Children’s Morning Out program in November of last year. He was 18 months old, and had a difficult time with being dropped off and also cried when we picked him up. But, he really liked the teachers, Miss Margaret and Miss Kiki and gradually the transitions got better.
About a week after we started, Miss Eloise, the director of the CMO program, showed me a video of our kiddo playing on the playground to show us how well he was doing between drop offs and pick ups. I thought that was a really sweet thing to do. Miss Margaret often sends us photos of our son as well. Very nice!
Overall, I would say that this is a very warm environment, and I’m glad it was our son’s first exposure to a school-​like environment. It’s also affordable, at $ 200 a month for two days of school a week.
There are a couple of things that I would like to see changed about their program, however.
1. They provide snacks that I would never give my son at home. Gold Fish, animal crackers and some type of fruit gummy snack are passed out all morning. Sometimes, my kiddo doesn’t eat his lunch because he’s so full of the snacks provided by the school.
2. At first, I thought it was adorable that he would come home with art projects. Then, I realized that it was mostly the teachers doing the art, not really the children. One-​year old kids are not capable of doing a lot of crafts, so I would prefer that the teachers just spend more time with the little ones, and less time on the art work.