My wife and I's review is well overdue for this outstanding daycare! My son has been out of Pinitos for over a year from now.
My son was our first born and spent his first year at home, and leading up to the months before he turned one we researched and visited just about every daycare from Pompano to West Palm Beach (due to my wife and I's jobs). And due to so many factors that go into finding the PERFECT daycare, I will not be able to list every reason why Pinitos is so great in comparison to just about every other daycare.
But first a little background, my son who is 28 months now has been enrolled in five daycares, yes that's more than we'd had hoped, but this is due to either poor quality daycares and our jobs relocating us. So it's fair to say that Pinitos 5 star review is well worth it.
Ms. Claudia is great, a true daycare director. One of the most important qualities you need in a DC is COMMUNICATION/responsiveness. Ms Claudia AND her team are just that. If my wife and I needed receipts, had questions, were a few minutes late, etc. Ms Claudia responded ASAP.
The facility was always nice, welcoming, and organized. It was never loud and chaotic...
NOW FOR THE IMPORTANT STUFF (I can only base my review off of the 1 year old room):
Ms. Pilar, OMG you are amazing! Most daycare just have "glorified babysitters," no not Ms. Pilar! I didn't appreciate this until well after my son had been to other daycares, but my son was typically the last one to be picked up. And EVERY night at 6pm when I got there to pick him up, he was sitting on Ms. Pilar's lap reading!!! I have yet to see anything remotely close to that anywhere else. The class pushed my 1 year old son to speak, walk in and out of the class and not have Mommy and Daddy carry him, and many other simple things. They even got his first steps on camera for us and emailed us the video!!
We originally sought out Pinitos because of the incorporation of Spanish, as my wife and I do not speak Spanish but know how important it is in a globalized world today. While I don't believe the curriculum in the 1 year old room really pushes Spanish, they do sing and give directions in Spanish to the children.
At the end of the day Pinitos is truly owned by mothers and RUN by mothers and you can tell. They genuinely want to be there and believe me that is extremely important, much like communication. We've been to daycares that have horrible communication, new teachers every other week, sickness constantly going around, "glorified babysitters" with your kid and their cellphone in the other hand....
Lastly, Pinitos meal plan is far better than what we've seen else where. We've been to daycares that have donuts in the money and cartoons on ipads....
Currently we live in Dallas and still to this day, we have yet to find a daycare that matches up to Pinitos. Thank you Ms. Claudia, Ms. Pilar, and the rest of the team. Finally after almost a year and a half I'm finally leaving a review! :) read more