Being the mom of a pandemic baby you can imagine my anxiety when it came time to search for child…read morecare. After weeks of searching and with no success in finding an establishment that is more than just subpar I came across Caring Hands Play and Learn. My initial impression of the facility was astounding. The atmosphere exudes fun, safe, learning and nurturing. Teachers are trained professionals who loves children. Caring Hands is more than just a Daycare, it is an extremely early start to your child's education. Every week they provide the curriculum that the children will be working on not to mention the daily videos and pictures of the kiddos working hard while having tons of fun. My son has been going there for about 2 months and he loves it and I'm so pleased to say that I have found peace of mind right in my own community. Caring Hands Play and Learn is the best daycare I have ever came across. I only wish I had found them years ago when my daughter was a tiny tot.

I've sent my children here for years. Over the last 2.5, I've noticed an incredible difference. For…read moreone, the owner is rude and unprofessional. She used to have a director, who served as the face of the school. The previous person made me feel comfortable and happy to have my children attending the school. Needless to say, the turnover is very high at the present time and I wish I didn't send my last child there after all the changes I've seen over the last 2.5 years. My advice is to look for childcare elsewhere. Once again TURNOVER IS VERY VERY HIGH NOW!

I've had My children at this Goddard location for four years and we have been very happy. I saw…read moreother reviews talk about turn over, but that was never the case for us. All of the teachers have been there pretty much the entire time my boys have been there. They have been wonderful and genuinely care about and get to know each and every child. The owners, director Melissa and Assistant Director Sarah go out of their way to make sure the kids are safe and happy. No place will be perfect, especially given the current circumstances with COVID, but I'm always happy to recommend this school.

We reserved but never started our child here, but they have now sent a wrong invoice from our…read moreaccount to collections Edit: the number you provided below is for a national hotline and not even direct to your center

This daycare was a solid reliable middle of the road daycare (although not inexpensive) and we…read moresetteld here for our children due to cost and needing reliability after facing daycares with staffing issues and unexpected closures. Unfortunately, issues with bad apples in their staff, and staffing turnover have become prevalent here and exhausted by the former director leaving. I not only can not rely on this daycare but I am truly concerned about the supervision and safety my children are receiving at this location. I think they should consider closing this place down because they need additional staff but also at least 2-3 of their workers should be immediately fired for cause. It seems they only care about making $ and not about children. Unless you have unlimited flexibility at work and don't need to focus at work.. i would not recommend. I'd never go to another kindercare in general after this experience. protect your peace and your children and stay FAR AWAY!

I love Gutman and my child does as well. It's never a hassle getting her to school because she…read moreloves it & that makes my life so much easier in the am. Everyone is so kind.

My daughter likes the teachers here very much. They are very patient and help her through this…read moreunfamiliar period at the beginning.

When we visited Lightbridge this past winter we really loved the environment and the staff, and we…read morewere thrilled that Jaclyn was able to get us spots for our twins for the following year. I was 13 weeks with twins at the time. We were so relieved to have gotten the daycare checked off! Flash forward, my twins are here, in the NICU, and I have to start preparations for them despite the fact that they can't be home yet. I had previously tried emailing Lightbridge to confirm and received no response. I finally had time to call and they let me know that they do not, in fact, have room for our twins. We are starting the daycare search over, which will likely be absolutely impossible at this point, considering there are two of them. We're left without child care, with twins in the NICU, incredibly stressed out. Do yourself a favor and get in writing that they will have a spot for your child so you don't end up like us.

My husband and I have a 3 year old who has been a part of the Lightbridge family since he was 16…read moremonths. As new parents, we searched for a Day Care that provided structure, love and welcomed diversity!! Transitioning from the Whippany, NJ location to the Jenkinstown, PA location was made seamless by the Directions and Owners (even with COVID). Our son loves his "new" school and we love the staff here! I randomly talk about the school to parents looking for school where their child can grow and learn, but most of all be HAPPY! Thanks Lightbridge!!!

The P&L in Blue Bell was the first daycare I've had the pleasure of bringing my child to. The thing…read morethat stands out in my mind are the caring teachers that are here. My son really took to them and I think that made him feel safe and loved while my wife and I were working. The prices are affordable, and they were able to provide us with a flexible schedule since my wife's school schedule could be sporadic throughout the week. They have a wonderful fenced in outdoor area that has a soft artificial turf and walkways where infants go on buggy rides.

My daughter goes to Play and Learn and this place is awesome! She has really learned a lot and has…read morebeen saying so many words and I owe it all to her teachers! They go above and beyond for all the children... all the teachers and directors are great! Thank you all for taking care of my daughter!! I know she is in great hands everyday... you guys rock!!

Our daughter has attended Play and Learn Bryn Mawr since January 2018 and so far, we have had an…read moreoverwhelmingly good experience here. Susan, the director, has been very responsive and accommodating, and our daughter's teachers are loving and involved. I have found the building and outside area to be clean (the playground area is awesome), and I will echo one of the other parents that the teachers in the other rooms go out of their way to engage with parents and children who are not even assigned to their rooms. There is a nice sense of community here. In particular, Miss Saamara in the Cuddlebug room is outstanding. She is incredibly warm and sweet. Our child had some issues with separation anxiety at first and Miss Saamara would take her and walk her around the room while holding her, showing her pictures and talking to her in a soothing voice as I left. I would often pause for a minute outside the room to make sure my child stopped crying, and Miss Saamara always had her calmed within a minute or two. Now that she has adjusted to her classmates and teachers, our child is always happy and barely notices when we arrive to pick her up - she would rather keep playing! One of the other things I really liked about this program is that most of the teachers have been here much longer than other programs: 5-15 years. That made me very comfortable that the director knows the teachers well and that they are in this career because they love what they do. The reason for the 4 out of 5 star rating is that we have had two minor issues here, but I feel that these has been handled well by the teachers/director and were positively resolved. (a few late arrivals by a teacher which caused me to be late to work and one incident where I picked up my daughter and she had developed a high fever but I was not called. The teachers had not noticed due to it being about 80 degrees out and the children were outside playing.) Overall, I felt these incidents were minor and I felt the teachers and director responded quickly and appropriately to my concerns. I think that as we get more time under our belt here (we have only been enrolled 6 months) and no further issues arise, I would be very comfortable amending this rating to a 5 star.

My almost 2-year-old has been at Play & Learn Bryn Mawr for over a year now and we're both very…read morehappy with this center! The director is always responsive and the teachers are caring, with many holding degrees in early childhood education. My daughter has grown and learned so much at her time "at school" and comes home saying new words and signing new signs and singing new songs almost every day. Most days she wants to keep playing when I come to pick her up. I've recommended this location to other friends looking for child care centers - we're happy with our decision to go with P&L in Bryn Mawr and look forward to our daughter continuing to grow and learn throughout her time there. There is a wait list so I'd suggest checking it out and getting on the list as soon as possible.

We had our daughter at the Goddard School in Plymouth Meeting since 2019 and our experience there…read morerecently swung from overall satisfaction to abrupt discontent where we ended up looking forward to her last day there. A few months ago we couldn't imagine saying something like that, but we quickly changed our minds after an inexcusable and unexpected back and forth with the co-owners. First we will say, the teachers at Goddard have been great. Although we haven't been able to meet any of them for the past 2 years due to the pandemic, my daughter has had nothing but good things to say about her teachers and she has learned a lot from them. We've come to learn that this school may be a perfect fit for a family who will quietly fall in line and not question policies set in place by the co-owners. I think this is why we didn't see their apparent true colors for all these years, we didn't ever question anything. The issue started after the CDC dropped the mandatory masking recommendation for children. They required the kids wear their masks inside and outside (even in the dead of summer). We asked a few simple questions about when they plan to go mask-optional, and were immediately shut down with vague statements like "... we decided that we were going to continue to require masks through the end of the winter virus season" and that "we trust that you respect our right to make our own policies". This is when we started to see that policy making at Goddard can be made up with no actual facts communicated to back it up and with no known parent input whatsoever. Not only were our questions immediately shut down, we felt shamed as though we were the only parents with any questions, which we know is not true. Coincidentally, the same day we asked about the masking policy, the school's Instagram page was populated with "parent emails" thanking them for continuing to require masking. Our emails back and forth continued as we tried to seek any information about what criteria needed to be met in order for the children to be mask-optional, as every other daycare/school/county had already been made mask-optional. We were told by the co-owners that we were being "insulting", that we must have "covid fatigue", they were not going to be answering any of our questions and that "there are other schools that (we) might feel more comfortable" sending our daughter to. Can you imagine? After 3 years at the school, being told we should look elsewhere because we questioned a policy for the first time? Parents trying to get details regarding a policy that effects their child every single day and we are told we are insulting and that they are not going to answer our questions simply because they didn't actually have the answers? Aside from their inability to provide information regarding their policies, the shocking disrespect we received for questioning them is ultimately the reason we decided to unenroll our daughter early. We just felt it was important to relay our experience for those considering enrolling their children.

The Plymouth Meeting, Pa location is Fantastic! not sure what why any of these other parents would…read moreput a negative review for this location. We switched our son to this location in June of this year 2022 from another school in Philly and we are totally satisfied with the way they run their school. The teachers, Management staff and owners are great. Very involved! They are very organized, prioritize the needs of each child not just ours, great communication, activities and giving back to charity. Our son is so much more happier at this location and learning compared to the other school that we left. They spend alot of focus on the Kids learning and development. I'm very happy that my wife and I made the switch to this location.