Laugh N’ Learn Bilingual Daycare

I don’t write reviews on Unilocal,but in light of the most recent review, I felt I needed to contribute my positive experience with this daycare. My child has been attending this daycare since the age of 3 months — she is now 2 years old. My kid was able to use sign language to communicate «eat», «more», «all done» at 8 months old — she learned this at daycare. Now at 2 years old, she can count to 13 in both english and spanish. I feel the daycare staff are caring and attentive. I check in on my kid while I’m at work and the daycare staff are very communicative. My kid enjoys this daycare and has never demonstrated any signs of anxiety or fear. She has gone through some separation anxiety, but this is very typical for my child’s age group. My kid is thriving and healthy and I’m sure this daycare plays a role in that.

I will preface my review by saying that my husband and I take a lot of pride in how we parent our daughter. We have done our research, read books, asked for advice from successful parents, etc. We are steadfast in our belief in raising our daughter without inflicting pain or instilling fear and have, thus far, been successful. She is a happy, confident, and smart 20 month-​old girl. She has never been clingy or scared to be dropped off at previous daycares. If anything she was abnormally happy and would wave to us and yell «buh-​bye!».
My daughter started attending Laugh N Learn Daycare in the beginning of Sept 2014. She would attend only two days week for about 4 hours at a time. Within two weeks, we noticed some behavioral changes and abnormal marks on her when she came home. After the third week of attending the daycare, our daughter started to become very clingy and attached to me, both at home and when we would drop her off at the daycare at the gym. Both of these were extremely unusual for our always outgoing daughter. Upon doing more research, I found that these behavior changes can be indicative of children that have been abused. Furthermore, our daughter started to say «no, no, no!» as soon as we would pull up to Ms. Erin’s house. While this did break our hearts to hear, we had no reason not to trust Ms. Erin and associated it with normal adjusting to daycare.
On October 9^th, when I picked my daughter up, her eyes were swollen. They looked like the eyes of a child that has been crying hard for a long time (this is also what another Unilocal reviewer has said happened to her child). My motherly instinct kicked in and I quickly asked what had happened. One of her workers told me that she had just woke up and was crying for five minutes. I started to feel that uneasy feeling as though something had happened to my daughter and they weren’t telling me the truth. Ms. Erin offered to show me the video (her house is filled with surveillance cameras) if I came back later.
When I returned later that evening, we watched the video starting from when they put my daughter down for a nap and as I suspected, we saw one of her workers treating our daughter and other children in a manner that we feel is inappropriately. Due to the fact that there is an ongoing investigation into this matter, I will not go into full detail, but I will say that we were shocked and concerned enough to immediately withdraw our daughter from Laugh N Learn Daycare.
If you’re child attended this daycare or you are considering your child attending and would like more information please contact the childcare licensing center please call 323) 981‑3351 it’s under Doherty Family Daycare.

Location closed giving although the contactually required amount of notice, given the standard in the industry an inappropriately amount of time to find placement for an infant.

My son has attended laugh n learn daycare for over a year now. Erin is a patient, kind and nurturing provider who takes excellent care of my son. Her enthusiasm and commitment are evident in everything they do there. The kids are provided with healthy meals and snacks and they enjoy a lot of activities, art project and trips to nearby parks, petting zoo etc. Over the past year, my son has learned so much, expanded his vocabulary, including spanish, increased his social skills, gotten into a consistent nap routine, mostly due to Erin and the wonderful team there. Everyday its a challenge to take him home as my son doesn’t want to leave the daycare. He is always excited for the next day. This place is truly home away from home for him. I highly recommend laugh n learn bilingual day care

My 2yr old son loves going to Laugh N Learn daycare. Ms. Erin is very structured and organized, she has daily activities for the children such as coloring letters & numbers, story time, educational games and even field trips. Birthday parties are so much fun, halloween was the best, every holiday is celebrated with so much enthusiasm a lot of fun for the kids. The staff Ms. Kris and Ms. Mary are very friendly and caring too. I see my sons happy face entering the daycare everyday and that makes all the difference.

so I placed a call this Morning, greeting on phone is standard Not the Company Name. I left a voicemail Inquiring for a 5month old baby (prices for a week). well I was given a call back on my voicemail and was told $ 180 a week under 24months.
YIKES !!!
I have never ever paid over $ 135 a week, what a rip off. unless the daycare provider provides clothes, food and diapers for the baby, than id understand. but at 5months baby is still sleeping and eating majority of the day, ha, I refuse to pay that amount. i would rather be home bonding and not working because its convenient. I will unbookmark this… and not look any further into this daycare. maybe in the future when my son turns 4! thanks Erin but no thanks you are very EXPENSIVE! that’s a tad off $ 800 a month …
reading a couple of comments here, there is no policy /​rule that states you can’t be there longer Than 30mins. if you are going to be there for 2hours or less its fine but if you plan on staying everyday for a couple of hours than a TB test is required. that is just simply ridiculous if you ask me!

I shopped around for many weeks before coming across Laugh and Learn Daycare. My daughter started coming here 2 years ago until she began preschool. Now that my children are out of school for the summer, Eren is once again my childcare provider for my 3 children. Eren does a great job running her business. My daughter learned her numbers in both english and spanish, learned the alphabet in sign language, completes educational activities which is given to me at the end of each day, Eren introduced musical instruments and dancing, she taught her the basics in swimming which my daughter loved, she cooks healthy meals, her backyard is like a mini playground, and she also speaks to the children in spanish and that re-​enforces the spanish I teach my children at home. All 3 of my children began attending daycare when they were 6 weeks old, so I know what to look for in a daycare. I drive about 30 – 45 minutes to get to Eren’s house, but I wouldn’t have it any other way because I know that my children are receiving the proper care they deserve. Since I started coming here 2 years ago, Laugh and Learn Daycare has grown. She went from having a license for only 7 children, and got approved to provide care for 14 children. She has hired assistants who do a great job and I have never experienced either of them nor Eren get frustrated or angry with the children. They are patient, kind and caring. I know almost all the parents who bring their children here, including Joyce S., who also wrote a review. I met her daughter when she was an infant and I have also seen her grow. The field trips, birthday and holiday celebrations are an added bonus. The fact that Eren goes out of her way to do things that are not even a part of her curriculum are beyond words. She is an amazing person who abides by the rules necessary to run a daycare and shows love to all her children.
As for the person who wrote a negative review, I am sorry you had a bad experience but it normally takes children a couple of weeks to get used to the new environment and people/​kids around them. You cannot rate a daycare facility based on one day because your cihld was crying, children cry, especially on a 1^st day. Just as Joyce mentions, I would not want Eren to be distracted from taking care of the children just because you want to spend the day with your child. Not only would you be distracting her, but you would be distracting the other children, and would be preventing your child from acclimating. This is also an in-​home daycare, so it would be obvious that people live in the home.

I’m a mother of a child that attends here. Personally I wouldn’t want parents sitting around while their child cries distracting Erin’s schedule. I’ve never known Erin to not allow a child to acclimate. She’s always been warm to all families. I’m sorry someone had a bad experience. She clearly doesn’t have an understanding of the way this works.
I’m a mother of 3. My youngest of 3 attends here. Erin started watching my daughter at 3 mo old. My daughter is now turning 2 in June.
Erin holds a structured environment. She’s in touch with all the children’s safety. She teaches in both Spanish and English. My daughter is fluent in both languages thanks to Erin. My daughter can count to 12 in BOTH languages and sign the alphabet.
Erin cooks health meals every day. She doesn’t open a box of Mac and cheese then consider that a nutritional meal. She teaches exercise lesson, dance lessons, and fully interacts with her kids. She holds activities for holidays and birthdays. She will even throw 2 birthday parties in 1 wk so each child has their own birthday party. How many parents would do that for their own children? Not many.
There are State required rules she has to abide by. Unfortunately, too many people can’t grasp that concept. If you are looking for a daycare that will fully engage with your child, teach them how to speak, spell and socialize feed your child healthy meals and love them as a provider should, then this is the facility for you.

I wanted to like this place, but it didn’t work out that way. It’s a nice house. The lady gave us a tour, and things looked good. The first red flag was when she told me I couldn’t stay a while on the first day so my child would warm up to the place. She said it was to protect her license, but as far as I know, there should be a open door policy to patents. I also don’t like the fact that her husband is around the home.
Upon picking up my daughter her eyelids were purple from crying so much.