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Review of Robert E Simon Jr children's c...

Our family cannot recommend this center enough. Ou...

Our family cannot recommend this center enough. Our eldest just left for kindergarten, but we have our other two kids here and they just love it. The staff treat us just like family. One thing that is really unique here that I have not seen at any other childcare places (oh yea, we toured almost all of them in Reston/Herndon) is a dedication to smaller classes for the young ones. For example, other facilities will have a class for age range 2-3yrs old. That s shocking because a 2 yr old is so different developmentally from a 3 yr old. Therefore, I ve always appreciated that they have classes with roughly 6mos age range (12-16mos, 16-24mos, 2-2.5yrs, 2.5-3yrs). It allows for an age appropriate curriculum, smaller classrooms, and the amazing staff really knowing your child.

Since RESCC is a non profit, they really pour money into teacher training and extra activities for the kids. Our kids love showing us their yoga moves, randomly counting in Spanish and the names of various musical instruments. They have great weather policies (thank goodness for those of us who are dual working parents) and they use the Good Food Company, a local, organic, catering kitchen, for the kids food.

I loved this place after I toured it, but I m not from this area so the price was higher than what I was used too. Therefore, we went to three different places to save money, but we ended up here because RESCC is just the best and therefore worth it! I wish we would ve just started here. We had terrible experience with staff, unprofessional administrators, and other medical issues at those previous places (not surprisingly two of them closed down). For us, it was worth the price to see our first child thrive here. We could tell immediately how much more comfortable he was, and honestly, how much better the staff was. RESCC has been providing childcare for over 25 yrs. so that really says something. Yea, they know what they re doing and have very experienced staff.

It was then and is still worth now the temporary budget prioritizing for our kids to go to an amazing place that focuses on their development, staff who treats us like family, and the fun and loving parent community. I don t know how RESCC do it but I love listening to my kids tell me things that they ve learned - planets and different moons in the solar system, the butterfly lifecycle of the pulpa turning into a crystalis. Or maybe it was the other way around - hmmmm - I think I have to have my kids teach me again.