Everyday Discoveries Preschool & Daycare, Inc.

Simply the best daycare that we could imagine for our kids. From the staff to the owners to the facility… we miss it every day now that we’re gone. I felt that my sons were well protected, well cared for, and very well-​educated while at school. I cannot give a higher or more glowing recommendation then Everyday Discoveries

My son attended this daycare for 4 ½ years. Over the past year I’ve seen a dramatic deterioration in the quality of service provided. I had debated pulling my son the past 6 months or so due mostly to the fact that he was not leaning as much as I would expect for a Pre-​K room (especially considering I pay over $ 950 month, which I’m pretty sure is the highest in peoria). The ONLY reason he remained at that school is because of the group of kids in his class were great and some of which had 4 yr friendships by this point. The management of this daycare had always been extremely poor. They gossip with the teachers & patents about the other. Mo the owner lies about most concerns you bring to the table, by either bruising them under the rug or making excuses. Most days while dropping off or picking up, you’ll find either owner/​manager behind the desk playing on Facebook. The other day my son came home and was telling about his day as he always does, and in his story he mentioned that one of the teachers grabbed him by the arm and yanked him out of line for doing airplane arms. I followed up his story with a lot of questions and explaining of course so that I had a better understanding. The next day I took the concern to the owner, as I have watched this particular teacher yell at kids before and there was also an issue with a parent witnessing a teacher shoving a student to the ground a couple years back. The owner basically called my son a liar because she said that was out of character for the teacher (like she would do something like that in front of the owner?) and said she would call me after lunch so she had time to talk to the teacher. I also mentioned that the cameras should have caught it and we could always look at those and she agreed. By 3pm I still hadn’t heard from her so I showed up there and she laughed that she had to cook lunch (which was 4 hours before). She stated that the teacher admitted to doing it to my son but because he was going to hurt another child by doing airplane arms? I asked to see the video and she said it wasn’t recorded, i liked over at the TVs and for the first time in 4 ½ years they were shut off. I asked if the teacher would be reprimanded as this is only going to get worse if she gets by with it once. The owner laughed in my face multiple times and her only two words to respond with were «wow» & «really». How very mature & professional of her. There solution to the problem was to send my child somewhere else if I didn’t like how they handle that behavior. 4 ½ years and over $ 60k in their pocket from me and that’s how they handle a true concerned parent. I explained to them that my 5 year olds may not have been injured by this teachers ignorance but if she does it to a small child it could seriously hurt them. Coincidentally a toddler had an arm out of socket last week when his grandmother was there to pick him up. The worst part was when we put a post on Facebook about it, numerous employees that used to work for them sent private messages stating that they were not surprised because those were the type of behaviors that drove them to quit, both teachers being too rough with kids and management lying. I hope this will deter parents from sending their child to this facility in hopes it will prevent them from being put in a situation like my son was.

These gals are so great with our little boys. So many activities, art projects, holiday events, parades, graduation ceremony, it goes on an on. Super clean environment with a large outdoor grass playground and very well equipt. Lots of natural lighting in every room and the is friendly and highly qualified. Many of them have degress in child development. Go see it for yourself, you’ll be impressed. :)