Hey Diddle Diddle Learning Center

I have had my daughter here about 6 months and it’s great! The owner runs a tight ship and with the safety and emotional health of my kid in her hands I’m so happy that she does! You see so many things in the news about tragic things that happen at day cares and you never really know if you can truly trust someone with your kids but with the way this place is ran, I feel comfortable with my daughter here. They do tons of activities with the kids. My daughter comes home dirty everyday from playing so hard! Lol. Honestly my daughter has developed so much socially the past 6 months it amazes me. I’m really happy I brought her here

I would not recommend this child care, we started our daughter here full days and nearly every other day we were told she was acting, up, not listening, and being mean pinching, hitting, throwing.
I was told she was stealing other kids food but not eating it and came in early one day and watched her eat and she didn’t touch anyone’s plate, I did however see an older child pretending to steal another’s food and laughing like it was a joke, pretty inappropriate around young children.
I was also told she was being very loud jumping up and down at nap time on a mat, so my husband went in and said she was being noisy but not super loud like they said and that she was bouncing on her knees not jumping up and down.
I was also told when my daughter started that she had to sit at a smaller table since her school skills weren’t the same, then a couple weeks later that they had stopped trying to help her learn because she needed socialization first before she could be capable of learning so they were just letting her basically sit there or sit there and color or go off and play while others got to learn. Sitting at home with my daughter I know she can learn because she’s learned a lot of things, she just needs help to understand how to write sine it’s a new thing but apparently this would be too time consuming.
I was also told that in the owners 16 years of childcare she’s never seen a kid like my daughter referring to the way she «acted» supposedly, I worked childcare for a little over a year before having my daughter and met «kids like my daughter supposedly is» according to her in that short amount of time and the facility (ymca) I worked for never considered kicking any of those children out, and our three member staff dedicated and took the extra time for these children no problem, no extra help, and no extra cost since the parent were already paying us to do the job. Both during play and nap time.
Then we were told she couldn’t come because she was sick and the doctor said she was fine to go to school and not contagious however it was still insisted she shouldn’t be there until she was done being sick despite the doctors opinion.
Originally we had her at a different daycare in the prior year for a few months with no complaints, she has been back at this other facility now and has had zero problems no «hitting, pinching, throwing, not listening, ect.»
Also we were suggested to get her evaluated for her development march 25 or 26 with a take home survey and given the name of a center in Corvallis. The next week was spring break, the following Monday I was asked by the owner to set her up an appointment. Tuesday I come in and they were kicking my daughter out, the owner stated she was too much for her staff and I was welcomed to pay her extra to bring in someone else also that she had been asking me for over two months to get my daughter evaluated.
For starters my daughter went here for a month and a half not over 2, secondly the evaluation stuff was a week before they kicked her out, also I’m already paying for child are services, which apparently another child care facility can do without extra staff. Third i asked a couple weeks prior to her being kicked out if she was too much for the staff to handle after they were saying something new everyday and was told no. Finally I did have her evaluated to reaffirm what I already knew, the evaluators were shocked to hear the things I was being told my daughter was doing and they didn’t believe it either after spending time with her. Then one of the evaluators said it was probably the result of the staff not taking the time to understand my daughter because her speech skills aren’t the best.
I’ve taken my daughter a lot of places with other kids the library, park, zoo, YMCA, ect she doesn’t behave this way like I told the owner. The only time she does some of these things is around her younger cousin when her cousin is trying or does hit or pinch her. Also she had a couple of reports sent home from her being hurt by another child and falling on a toy house, as well as telling my husband and I when we went to pick her up that someone was hitting her and said other kids names.
I don’t know if the center didn’t like my daughter, however given the experience I assume so and wouldn’t recommend the facility.