Lil Goldman Early Learning Center

This is not just a daycare. They help develop your child. We had a parent-teacher conference when our child was around 6 months old, which I first thought was silly. But our child's teacher had a multi-page matrix for our child's cognitive, motor, and emotional (maybe more) development. My wife and I were floored. The teacher asked if we had any questions at the end of the conference. We were like, "we love you?"When we met with the director for our first tour, she explained how their goal was to raise nice, respectful citizens. For example, they teach recycling. When we visited the class rooms with the director, the kids knew her by name and were excited to see her. This did not happen at the other learning center we visited. We later discovered the director enthusiastically leads sing-alongs. Lil Goldman has relieved our stress from raising our first child. We could not have been happier with our choice.

Two of our three boys have attended Lil Goldman Early Learning Center (our oldest went to Pre-K in California and Ohio). Our middle child first came to Lil Goldman when he was 4 (one year before kindergarten). He left Lil Goldman set up for success in kindergarten and has thrived through first grade. The time they spent learning writing letters and recognizing sight words has definitely set him up for success in elementary school. Our youngest child has now been at Lil Goldman for 2.5 years and loves it. He is building social and language skills that will prepare him for elementary school. We feel that Lil Goldman offers a safe, fun environment. We have experienced three different pre-Ks because we've moved a few times and Lil Goldman is by far the best one we've experienced. I highly recommend it.

My oldest has been here for almost four years. My youngest about a year. My children have received top notch attention, curriculum, social development and most importantly nurturing. The director is very detail oriented and knows every family and their needs. The teachers are passionate about early childhood education and provide creative and engaging activities to help your kids learn and grow. They play outside everyday and have so many enriching extras: music, stretch and grow, gardening, yoga, soccer, dance etc. We have been very pleased with the care and education our children have received and are grateful to have found this school.

There are two reasons for this bad review1) There was a weird coincidence that on Friday the kids would stay alone with Ms Belinda and it seems that at some point on Friday more than one occasion when we picked up our son he was crying and when I asked him what's wrong he pointed at his leg and said it hurts' I asked him why he said because I didn't want to sleep in the sleeping bag, I walked inside to ask questions nobody bothered to ask Ms Belinda what happened and said he started crying as soon as he saw me which is completely B.S because whenever I pickup my sun he always has a huge smile and running happy straight to me.The second reason is the horrible director that they have in this place that really made things worst and in fact it was very much possible that we would have looked in to the matter and it's very likely that we could have worked it out but when the director Esther who wasn't there that day called me after I asked the lady at the front to have her call me she said she talked to them and seems like he was crying for something he didn't understand maybe he thought he is staying in the daycare.Later my wife spoke to her we asked for a meeting with The director and Ms Belinda Ester the Director refused and said it will be Just us Monday Morning.When we arrived and I explained my concerns She immediately denied everything even though she wasn't there and refused to look in to the matter, she got what looked like a panic attack, her hands started shacking she pooled our check out of the drawer and said take your son and get out of the building I don't feel safe around you, while another staff member is videoing on her phone; What a lunatic, I have never raised my voice, or disrespected her or threatened her or used bad language at any point during that conversation, instead of trying to work things out she escalated the whole thing.We truly suspect there was aggression and possibly violence from Ms Belinda towards our son and instead of looking in to the matter deeply and asking all the questions, a professional Director should be even more concerned than us when a child constantly leaving crying and only on the day he stays alone with her and he points at his leg and says it hurts, what did the Director do? puled the check and expelled our son.We intend to contact her superior, we intend to notify all of the other parents and we intend to file a complaint with the DFPS.They just want you to do what they want and trust them without asking questions if you do they get angry.They don't have Security Cameras in that place so impossible to really know what was happening.After 5.30 pm they don't have to talk to parents because they have life and if you have questions there will be no answers.My advise don't put your son there, it's not even real jewish day care, most of the teachers are not jewish and half of the kids are not jewish I'm not really sure what makes it a Jewish day care, the Israeli flag in the front definitely won't cut it.Just because the teacher speaks Spanish they teach more Spanish than Hebrew.

Lil Goldman is a fantastic school with a fantastic curriculum and nurturing environment. Our son loves his teachers and classmates and is learning so much. We couldn't be more pleased!

We are so pleased with our experience at Lil Goldman. My son is almost two and he has learned so much in the seven months he has been there. He loves it. It has been the perfect balance of fun and learning. He does science experiments and art projects and music and he gets to play outside every day. His teachers are so nurturing and the entire staff knows his name. I also like that they use the app to share updates and photos throughout the day.I toured four daycares when we moved to the area, and this one had the best environment and hours for our family.

This place is so much more than daycare. Lil Goldman is a learning center. It's a family. Teachers truly care for our children and treat them like their own. My middle son "graduated" from their pre-school program about 2 years ago and was completely prepared for Kinder. He was well ahead of some of his classmates and I knew he was set up for success. My youngest is currently in the "3's" room. He loves all of his activities from music and art and yoga and can even do enrichment like soccer shots. He's learning his numbers and letters and is starting to enjoy the learning part of being at "school." We have been so thrilled with our experience here!!

I have sent my children to this school for the past 5 years and we have one more year left at Lil Goldman. We have loved the community and how much the teachers and staff have helped us navigate parenthood. We know and trust that are children are receiving the best education possible while learning strong values and social skills. My kindergartener (graduated Lil G in 2018) was BEYOND prepared to enter her first year of elementary school and she is thriving.