OC Kids Childcare

Feel confident sending your child to OC Kids! Our daughter was 8 weeks premature so you can imagine our apprehension in sending her to daycare at 4months old, 2 months adjusted. OC Kids made us feel so comfortable! If it wasn’t for the amazing teachers, I don’t know how I could have gone back to work. Now 10 months old, our daughter loves to go to «school» to see her favorite teachers, play with the other children and all the fun toys. She regularly comes home with arts & crafts projects for the fridge. Her teachers know her so well and have helped us to create a schedule and routine for her. I would recommend OC Kids to anyone! I am certain OC Kids is the best choice for our daughter while we are at work.

My husband and I are both teachers and have very high standards for our kids. We checked out 5 preschool/​daycare centers in the area, and OC Kids is by far the most clean, friendly, organized, and fun place for our kids. The teachers genuinely care about our daughters and they love their jobs. The teachers’ passion for working with children is what makes all the difference in the world to our family. The teachers take extremely great care of our girls and have helped our daughters learn in a fun and nurturing environment. On top of the positive social emotional connections and wonderful learning environment at OC Kids, our girls are also enrolled in Amazing Athletes during the school day, for introduction to a variety of sports such as golf, baseball, hockey, basketball, football, soccer, and volleyball. On Thursdays, a company called Webby Dance comes to the school for in-​school dance classes, which my girls absolutely love. There is also the option to have hot lunches provided by Cypress School District. The teachers communicate with us daily through a quick journal entry about how our child’s day was, what they ate, and for how long the nap was. The Two’s teachers potty trained our 2 year old daughter when she first started at OC Kids. I am so thankful for all that the staff has done for our girls. Our kids are on a positive behavior incentive system (which you will see when you walk into each of the classes). There are small prizes earned for every 10 tickets earn for positive behaviors. I would highly recommend this preschool/​daycare to all of my family and friends. It truly has an amazing staff.

My kids have all been going to OC Kids Cawthon for a very long time. My oldest kid is thirteen and my youngest is 8. They were treated great the whole time. People that give a 1 star review are ridiculous.

My kids are the most important thing to me, with OC Kids I know they are in good hands. They have a great staff that really care about what they do. I highly recommend their services.

My review is based in a tour. I honestly couldn’t wait to leave the building after watching the way that staff was interacting with the children. I witnessed a total lack of respect for their little personalities. I didn’t feel that individual strengths or needs were tolerated let alone respected. I couldn’t imagine ever leaving my daughter in their care.

3 days ago, I was so excited to see my 2 ½ year old attend her first day at the OC KIDS CHILDCARE pre-​school, with the expectation that we are entrusting this institution, with its staff, to care and love our daughter as if she was their own. With high spirits and the expectation of her crying on her first day, I had the utmost confidence that it would eventually pass after we had left her in the care of the staff… until, my worst nightmare came true… I received a text message of pictures of my daughter, sent by her mother, clearly showing a hand print bruise and fingernail indentations on the inside part of her bicep, painting a picture that someone had clearly held my daughter by the arm with so much force, it left bruises on her arm… mind you, a 2 ½ year old! To my shock, I immediately became angry to the point of being unable to sleep, just thinking about what I am going to say to these people whom we TRUSTED and now have brought HARM to my child. Clearly, the staff is incompetent, unapologetic, and unprofessional, except for one person whom we thought gave us an honest and heartfelt answer yet left us with more questions than answers. It is too bad that one particular staff member, who felt the need to forcefully control our child, has not only hurt herself and her career, but the whole staff and the facility, needs to accept the blame and responsibility for what they’ve done to our child. They have staff members caring for smaller children who have no children of their own, which leads me to believe, that they have no daily child rearing experience whatsoever! The Director also needs to learn how to protect the children and not the integrity of the COMPANY as she represented the facility with very poor customer service, apologizing, though insincere, because she already knew the amount of trouble she and the facility were in, then compounding the problem with saying that ‘…maybe our child DID NOT belong there as she was a handful…” To place blame on our child is ridiculous and absurd. So you mean to tell me, the way you handled my child was an acceptable act? I think not!
Apparently, it was enough to warrant such an action, that they had to be PHYSICAL with our daughter. I’m 6’0 ft 205lbs, yes it requires strength to calm her down, but not to the point of using so much strength that it left a hand print/​bruise marks and nail marks on my baby’s arm.
So its been 2 days, since the incident… no phone calls to apologize, nor to remedy the situation. I had to call the office to obtain the refund. They didn’t even offer to give us our tuition back. If I didn’t ask, they would have kept it and called our situation ‘an accident’ only it was not an accident. To any parent who is worried about leaving their child at a facility such as this one, make sure the staff is fully qualified, you agree to the rules, and have full trust in them. It’s sad, looked like they knew what they were doing… apparently not! I DO NOT recommend this place at all.

We recently moved to Cypress from Northern California and were desperate to find a preschool that would make for an easy transition for our 3 ½ year-​old daughter. We settled on OC after a 2 week search. It was not our first choice but since we were moving at an odd time the schools we wanted were not available. On her very first day We were shocked when we dropped her off and witnessed a teacher telling a crying toddler that if they didn’t stop they would be placed in timeout. Now I’m all for tough love but this raised a small red flag. After 2 ½ weeks, we noticed that our child would cry worse at every drop off and she was having terrible anxiety the night before school days. This was not the case at her previous school. At drop off time, while my daughter was sobbing, the teacher reluctantly helped ease the transition. Finally, a neighbor and close friend of my wife’s family witnessed an employee, whom she described as a tall thin blonde woman (whom I believe is the director of the school) yelling at the kids because a rake was out of the sand box. She then proceeded to throw the rake back into the sandbox near where kids were playing. It’s one thing to raise your voice with children but to throw something out of frustration is completely unacceptable behavior for a child care professional. The rake could have easily bounced and injured a child. Needless to say we pulled our daughter out immediately. My wife called the director and we hope by sharing our experience and shining a light on this behavior that they will improve for the benefit of the other children and parents.

My son has been attending this daycare since 15 months old. The staff is very sweet. He’s currently in the infant program (baby — 24 months). I was really worried about his care since he’s been at home with Grandma since birth. He’s really adjusted so well. He’s socially more outgoing and even does art projects.
There are usually 2 – 3 people watching him and the other children. He comes home happy & seems to have had a good time. I knew he was doing just fine with his care there when one day he didn’t even want to go home. He wanted to show his Momma around. :) I’d definitely reccommend the infant program for this facility. Miss Andrea really helped my son with the adjustment period. He really likes her. Also, the rest of the staff is really warm & friendly. Katrina — the director — was really helpful & answered all my worried Mom questions.