Bambi Land Home Daycare, Herndon

my daughter has loved being at this daycare. Shes's always excited to go. we always look forward to seeing all the worksheets and art work at the end of the week.

Our daughter has been at Bambi Land Daycare since May of 2021; Entering at age 2. Farnaz and her team are amazing. They maintain a superior level of cleanliness and attention to detail that we have not experienced with any other provider. Our child is high energy and we have found that Farnaz and her team know exactly what motivates her and how to keep her engaged. The children develop good routines for check-in and check-out, which makes for easy transitions for the children (and parents!). Farnaz’s rates seem very reasonable when compared to other providers (and comparing the level of individual attention your child receives compared to the big box facilities). We highly recommend Farnaz and her team at Bambi Land to anyone who is looking for a highly intelligent and very well organized operation.

My daughter went to this daycare for 15 months. I had my doubts through my time there but the owner told me to trust her. A week after giving birth to my second child, she told me we had a couple weeks to find a new daycare and would no longer take my daughter here. We have never missed payments and abided by all of her rules. Her reason was because she didn’t have room for my second child and thought we would leave after knowing this. She registered another family with two kids and even after we told her we had no plans of taking our daughter out, she said she doesn’t have room for her anymore because she registered a new family. She said her assistants arm was sore from carrying my daughter as well. We begged her to keep our daughter as we didn’t want to search for a new daycare a week postpartum, and put our daughter through another big transition when we just brought her baby brother home and that was a big transition for her. The owner did not care and said she will not change her mind since she enrolled another family before even speaking to us. She did not care how it would affect our family or our daughter. She said she can kick her out because the contract says she only needs to give the families two weeks notice. Legally it was ok, but morally, very wrong. I a teacher and genuinely care about my students. This owner does not care about the kids, she cares about money. My daughter acquired zero words at this daycare after 13 months there. She went to a new daycare and learned over 10 words in the first month. This daycare does not send hardly any pictures past the first week so you have no idea what is going on there. I think I got a total of 4 picture in 13 months. My daughter did not take home a single craft. They constantly put the kids in front of a tv and that is not beneficial for the children’s development. At my new daycare I get video access, daily pictures, detailed reports and my daughter now participated in crafts, reads books, goes outside 2-3 times a day and overall comes home so much more happy. My daughter came home several times with her bottom not fully wiped. She claims to send bottles home to be sterilized every month, but only sent them home twice in 13 months. My daughter got sick at this daycare more times than I can count. She has been at her new daycare for 3 months and has yet to get sick and around many more kids. She claims to be very clean, but clearly it is not. I have never wrote a negative review about any business but this daycare truly deserves a negative review. There was very little information about this daycare online when I enrolled my daughter except from the website the owner created. I wish at the time I would have known what I know now. I wish I could have read about parents experiences with this daycare aside from only the reference letters the owner provides. After 13 months there, she wouldn’t even accept my Facebook request on her daycares business page, claims she doesn’t use social media. She only communicated with me through what’s app or her home phone number. It was just all very shady and questionable. She claims she keeps kids their until kindergarten and that is just not true. She kicked us out and I had to search for a new daycare when I could hardly walk a week after having my second child for no reason and without asking us about our plans for our second child! I truly think her kicking my daughter out was a blessing in disguise because my daughter is in such a better place and doing better in every aspect of her life. I hope this review helps parents understand what they are getting themselves into. I debated writing this review for a while but think it’s necessary because I don’t want other babies or parents to experience what we did.

Everything about Farnaz and her home daycare is outstanding. Healthy meals, tons of activities, lots of learning, over the top clean. She brings in preschool teachers every day to help educate. It felt like I was dropping my son off with family.

If I could put 100 stars for this daycare, I would. Everything about it exceeded our expectations. My daughter is now in second grade and she STILL talks about Ms Farnaz and says she misses her. Farnaz was and still is like family to us and I will always be grateful to the person who recommended her to us when we first moved here and new no one. The place is clean, the teachers are caring, the food is amazing, and the curriculum is wonderful. This is a jewel and the most wonderful daycare around.