Reviews of Cari's Little Friends in Jersey City

WORST DAYCARE IN THE CITY. STRICTLY AVOID. YOUR KID WILL BE BETTER AT HOME RATHER THAN ANYWHERE NEAR R***. I AM GIVING ONE START COZ I CANT GO BELOW IT. FOR ME IT SHOULD BE -VE NOT EVEN ZERO. My son (3 yrs) was going to this daycare last year. Initially the owner, R***, promised to look after my kids and help him with lot of things. I was told she will help my son get pee & potty trained, will help my son learn few basics academics, will help him start eating by himself. SHE DID NOT DO ANY OF IT. Forget about doing the most basic things, many times they did not even change his diapers. She never cared if my son ate anything. Poor kid, he did not eat anything from 08:15 till 12:30 while being in daycare. He lost 8 lbs of his weight while being in this daycare. I have seen other small kids around in the daycare. Many times i have seen them being on their own, crawling in the daycare & putting lot of stuffs (including mop) in the mouth. R*** looks at them & then turns her face away as if she does not care. She likes talking bad about other kids. I am pretty sure she wold be doing the same for my kid in front of others. She is a 2 faced lady. When you will be there, she will try to show that she loves your kid very much & that he is the only one she cares for. However moment you are out of daycare, she gives a dam care about your kid. Many times other parents told me that my kid is crying when i am not there & R*** does not care about it. Initially she told us that she has a teacher in the daycare & that teacher will be teaching kids a lot of academics stuff. Reality is she does not have any teacher. Just one helper, who looks after kids younger that 1 year old. That's it. Worst has started now. If you are not there to pick up your child exactly on time (on dot), your kid will be standing out of daycare with his bags on his shoulder till you reach there. She does not have even a basic courtesy to make kids sit inside the daycare till the parents reach. On top of that his bag will be on his shoulder. Poor kid. I now have video evidence for the same & am making a formal complaint to the authorities. She does not shy from lying to you. Last week when I reached to pick up my kid & he was out, I wanted to talk to her. Her helped told me that she is not in & I should call her. I was returning when I saw parent of other kid outside the gate. She told me that she just talked with R*** & since then no one has come out from the daycare. How come she is not there ? I was baffled & very angry. I went back & called her. She came out saying, I dont want to talk to you. You go now. I was very angry with this behavior of her's. My kids gloves has not been returned by her since last 3 days. I have been reminding her & she does not want to return it? S*** woman. AVOID THIS DAYCARE AT ALL COST. In Dec '14 there were about 15 kids. Today there are not even 5. Everyone has moved out because no care is taken for the kids. That's precisely the reason she takes kids all year round (no one continue over here for long).