Childtime Children's Center

Such a great program! My daughter spent here two years. The teacher are professional. The director is very supportive. My daughter spent most of her time with preschool rooms and she has developed most of her language learning throughout those classes.

As a Child Development professional, I was extremely picky when deciding where to send my son for daycare. After being at home with a nanny for the first year and half of his life, I was unexpectedly forced to find new child care for my son. I looked at several home day cares, church-based centers and "chain" child care centers. After touring Child Time, I was feeling pretty certain that we would choose them, but what really sealed the deal for me was when I found out that one of my mentors was the Director of the school. I know that she holds very high standards for safety, providing rich curriculum and, most importantly, ensuring nurturing and loving environment for children. I wasn't expecting to choose a "chain" type of center, but I have to say that it really gives me a lot of comfort knowing they are held to very high safety compliance standards and are accountable to a higher authority when providing care to my child (unlike a home daycare or nanny). Now that my first born is three-and-a-half, I have never questioned our decision to have him at Child Time. He started off as a very anxious toddler (with an anxious mother too) and now he has really settled in as a confident and playful little boy who loves going to school! He has lots of great little buddies, LOVES his teachers and is learning SO much! I have no doubt that this is laying a great foundation for Kindergarten and beyond. We also chose to send our second baby boy there when he was just a few months old. I am able to stay home with him full-time now, which is the only thing I consider better than having him at Child Time! We can't wait for him to re-join the Child Time family again when he is ready for preschool though!

My daughter has been attending Childtime La Mesa coming up on a year now and it has been a great choice. We started her here at 6 months after researching and visiting other daycare centers. We chose this location based on a number of things, primarily the infant room and staff since that is where we were starting her out. When my daughter started attending, aside from being nervous about our first daycare experience, she was still breastfeeding. We worked out a breast milk feeding schedule with them and also gave special instructions on how to feed her so it reinforced the breastfeeding at home. They really did a good job. My wife was able to keep our daughter on breast milk through the first year. We've also worked with them on the transition to solids and weening off of pacifiers. The staff has just been wonderful with my daughter. They create an environment where she can interact and learn with other kids which is important to us since she has no siblings at home. I usually pick her up and sometimes I will observe what goes on. She is laughing and talking and playing and going a mile a minute. When we are ready to leave, she has to go around and say good-bye to Alma, Nasha, Alex, Celia, Michele, Cristina, Deanne, whoever else is in our path, which reaffirms to me Childtime is right for my daughter.

Our son started at Childtime when he was 1.5 yrs old, and he is now almost 3. I went to a number of different day care centers before we decided on childtime and I have been very happy with our decision. The facility is very well organized, very clean and safe, and the teachers are all wonderful. The activities are well thought out and I love all the artwork that comes home. My son can already count to 15, knows his letters and comes home singing new songs all the time. They provide great structure in terms of routines that are very important for him.

My daughter only had the pleasure of being in the infant room with Miss Alma and Miss Nashley but the entire staff is great. Everyone is super friendly and polite. When I would drop off in the mornings they would tell the older kids being bussed to school “make good choices today” or “tell someone you don’t know something nice” which I think is a great example of the daycare as a whole. Alma and Nashley have a lot of experience and they taught my daughter so much while she was there. My daughter would jump into their arms every morning and when your kid can’t tell you how their day was, it’s comforting to see how much she loved being with them. I still miss her teachers and am so sad we moved out of state because that would have remained our only choice for daycare.