Taking your kid to day care is scary enough, what I’d like to say about Lollipops:
1. If you want to feel judged as a parent, go sign up with Sue, she’ll continue to make you feel like a terrible parent your entire time with her day care. Get ready for some serious passive aggressiveness, most of it direct at your child. Lollipops can never be accountable for anything.
2. If you want your child judged, sign up with Sue, it will always be your child’s fault, your child will be labeled a liar, and she’ll make sure they know it and you know it.
3. If you want your day care providers to switch on your child regularly, this is the place for you, she has a couple who have stayed there for a long time, but most of them come and go much too often, it can be confusing for your little one, it’s sad they don’t get paid more than $8.50 an hour considering what they do, it’s no wonder she can barely keep a full staff.
4. If you want your child to tell you every morning she doesn’t want to go to Lollipops, this is the place for you.
5. If you want your child’s haircut, not just a little and not professionally I might add, sign them up for a free cut that you’ll be blamed for later… even though you did you kid’s hair that morning and it was different once you picked them up. (Never mind the safety concerns!)
6. If you need school pick up, better hope that Sue doesn’t change her mind on where she says she’ll do pickups from 5 days before school starts… because instead of honoring what she advertises she’ll promptly just terminate your contract with her altogether so she isn’t inconvenienced.
7. If you like disjointed communication, Lollipops is great for that as well… you will receive random notes, computer messages on check in check out, poster boards, signup sheets in many different locations, all with different information… and then once your confused by all of that, if you ask Sue point blank where/how to do something you may or may not get a straight answer… either way it will be your fault in the end.
In short, Lollipoops looks great and even feels good on the outside, but once your there you’ll start to figure out that they sign up to many kids, pay their help not near enough, and it will be survival of the fittest for your child.