Susanna Wesley Children’s Center

My child started here when she was 17 months. She used to be timid, shy and scared of other people. I am very happy with how she developed into a very sociable child. I am very satisfied with the program that they have. The teachers here are very loving, caring and nurturing. They have programs/​presentations for special occasions/​holidays that allows your kid to perform for you. Teachers communicates and updates you thru email/​txt and they send you a newsletter every month (how awesome is that!)
Honestly when you are a working mom, sometimes you don’t have the energy to teach your child the basics (colors, alphabet, numbers, etc…) but am sooo glad that SWCC teachers/​school does it for me.
The school itself is already great but they continue to find ways to grow to better serve the needs of a child and for them to easily adapt/​advance in a fast changing world.
Now my daughter is 2.5 yrs old, this is not just a school for her, but feels more like a second home. Thank you SWCC.

I’m incredibly grateful for this daycare for all the care, attention, and time they have given my child since she started there at 2 months. All the teachers there truly have their heart in the right place and I’m quite impressed with the activities and art project my child has grasped. There aren’t many options for infant daycare on the eastside and I’m happy to have found this special place. They’ve always been very attentive to my needs.

I spent a long time searching for just the right spot to start my daughter in part-​time daycare. I thought I had found a good fit in the Susanna Wesley Children’s Center. However, on the first day, as I was dropping my daughter off, I sat down inside the daycare and nursed my daughter before leaving. One of the workers from another age-​group walked by and asked me if I wanted a blanket to cover up. I was nursing discreetly and my breast was not exposed. I was shocked! I was inside a designated children’s care facility, where I was paying for the care of my child. I told her I didn’t feel the need to cover up and hoped that nothing like that would happen again. The next time I took my child, my husband dropped her off and she cried, but I expected that initially so I wasn’t too worried. However, when I went to pick her up 2 hours later, I walked into a dark room (the caretakers were putting other toddlers down for naps) to find my child alone in the middle of the dark crying her eyes out with no one around her. Of course, once the care takers saw me, they instantly rushed over and began cooing over her, but believe me, no one was paying ANY attention until mom showed up unexpectedly. I picked up my daughter and tried to comfort her, but she didn’t quickly calm down as I expected so I took her out into the EMPTY hallway and tried to nurse her. Again, two caregivers started pestering me to please move to a different location to nurse. Since my child was still crying at this point, I quickly walked out and went to nurse her in my car. As I sat there, I could not believe I had just left my child’s daycare to go nurse in the car. What kind of establishment doesn’t let you nurse you child inside it? Not only is it ILLEGAL to ask a nursing mother to cover up or move, but it is just plain bizarre to do so inside a daycare. I don’t know why, but I decided to give it one more chance, but the next time I went, I again tried to nurse my daughter (who instantly burst into sobbing tears the second we walked in) before I left, but one of the caretakers told me that I was «not allowed» to nurse inside and needed to go to a private room where I could not be seen by others, especially the children. I was appalled. I told her what she was saying was illegal and disgraceful. I walked out with my daughter and never looked back. I will not be shamed for nursing my baby! What and awful, AWFUL experience. I would like to add that I nursed my child in front of the director when we were touring the place and signing up, and she never said a word about their [ILLEGAL] policy of making mothers go into private rooms to nurse their children. If you are going to have such a stupid rule, you should at least be upfront about it. But I guess they can’t do that, you know, since it is against the law and all.

I visited the school today. I have an immediate need for child care. I explained my immediate need to the director before showing up today. She seemed like a kind woman. She showed me the facility. While not an elegant program, it met my bare minimum standards for child care. So I decided to move forward since my need was urgent. That’s where the problems started. The director –again a seemingly nice woman — was just not listening to me. She informed me it would take 2 weeks to process my application despite the fact that I could have a check to her in a week or less. She made it intentionally difficult for me to enroll my child there. Intentionally. Despite explaining to her repeatedly that I could have whatever documents she needed by email in just a few days, she wanted them by snail mail and wanted to prolong the process to two weeks. (I’m an Army veteran and a veterans program wanted to pay my first month tuition). That told me that this would be a day care unresponsive to my and my child’s needs. I specifically told her I was looking for immediate availability before I showed up because I am a single working parent. She said she had it. I show up. I say yes. And now suddenly there’s no more immediate availability. Not even for an Army veteran. I don’t know for sure why she suddenly discriminated against me, I just know that she did. Interesting… especially for a church…

My son started here at 4.5 months and he’s nearly 2 now and still goes. This is a wonderful place and he loves it there. The staff is so attentive and loving. They have really helped him learn and grow and communicate very well with me about what he is doing each day. Highly recommend it for parents seeking peace of mind with regards to their children’s care.

I have two children that have attended Susanna Wesley Children’s Center. My husband and I LOVE this place, and so do our kids. The teachers are very caring, nurturing, and attentive to all of the children. They are very good at communicating with the parents and sending notes home about what your child did that day, for example: what they ate, when they played, when diapers were changed, when they napped, their mood, and various other comments about their words, habits, or new experiences. The older kids are taught a curriculum and come out knowing their letters and sounds, numbers, shapes, colors, and SO much more! They will even help potty-​train your child!
My first son started there when he was 4 months old, and my second son started when he was 6 months old. Both boys love their teachers. About half of the teachers are available to babysit on the weekends, and some weeknights. This is great because your child already knows the babysitter, and you don’t have to worry about your child getting stressed out with you gone.
If you are thinking about daycare options, this is the place to go. It’s very hard to find a good place to leave your little one while you go back to work. I encourage you to try SWCC out. You can just walk in anytime during business hours and request an appointment for a tour.

I have not enrolled my children here and I won’t be given their first impressions. They have a banner on Wilson street saying they have open enrollement at their daycare. I have left 3 phone messages and one email and no one ever gets back to me. Finally, I decided that their lack of communication say a lot about their daycare and staff. I can’t even begin to understand why they don’t return calls?