Local Guides World
Reviews — 8
The disappointment level is to the top. The day before Mother’s Day they said it’s Mother’s Day next day we are most welcome to bring food. I got my 3 years old all excited about the celebration. We bake a cake together and made some samosa early in the morning. I walk in with food just for the reception lady to tell me if it’s gets too crowded she might aske me to leave in the middle of the party. As I did not register. Which they never told me about that I have to register for. I said I will just leave now as it will be embarrassing for me to leave in the middle of the class and celebration. My daughter was so heart broken. I left all the food I made and walked away. All the stuff have big attitude which I didn’t care about as my daughter was having fun there. But I won’t recommend anyone with self respect to go there.
It is a very excellent place for kids to learn and grow positively.
Very family friendly centre
If I have to say one thing about this place, it's DISGUSTING. In every sense. The teachers hate being there but they're acting. There is half an hour of play time together and they sing 3 songs and send everyone off with a very rude bye bye. It takes 10 minutes. It's never fun inside, it's old and dirty. When I was worried about my baby's hygiene, they said no, but after that, something happened to my baby's eye. When a visiting nurse comes from outside, they take him in with his shoes on and my baby is crawling in the same place, but according to them it is clean. During the party, mothers make and bring things and help without using gloves. I never ate anything from there. I am by no means a racist person, but I felt like I was being racist there by the Black teacher. The black woman is so careless and constantly making loud warnings that I never liked her. The only good thing there is the secretary she. Never leave until the team changes. and Canada needs to stop paying there..
Sorry, not happy at all, thought I should share because I notice many places following this pattern. The "teachers" scold the children very strongly, then strongly repeat themselves 3 times, and sometimes simultaneously make strong intimidating eye contact, as if this is some type of special strategy. If these are the techniques they learn, this is very strange. I feel like they are encouraged to behave in this manner by the schoolboard and it is worse now than ever before. And the parents just watch their children get mistreated and silently stand around. Most of the time these children are acting completely normal and not doing anything wrong. Even the developmentally delayed children at the smallest "mistake" are strongly scolded. Seems very uneducated. The atmosphere is depressing and lethargic, the "teachers" seem also to have brain fog. There seems to be "good cop bad cop" theme with one teacher behind the other yet both complicit. The "teachers" bad talk other parents and children to other parents. Remember these are all children under 6 years of age, mostly very young. This is supposed to be a fun environment to warm them up for school. The "teachers" are only preoccupied with controlling the children and parents. If they sat there and did absolutely nothing the environment would be much better. Sad that their contribution is mostly negative. Children are not allowed to play with 2 different types of toys at the same time. They are also not allowed to bring toys from one area to another area. 🙄 sometimes they are not allowed to play with a toy for no reason or it is taken away for no reason. If they lose interest in a toy for a moment they are expected to put it back righ away and the parent cannot do it for them. During circle time they are not allowed to bring a toy with them even if it's just a toy baby they want to hold while sitting down. The strict rules for circle time make it very strange. Is it a ritual? All the children and parents are expected to do the exact same thing at the exact same time. Participation is mandatory the entire time. If the child loses interest and walks away it is not acceptable. If the child wants to be interactive and walks up to the object being pointed to, they are told to sit down. If a child wants to pick up a toy they are not allowed. All this confuses the child's mind very much. Especially when they are not doing anything wrong and they are told that they are. Then they don't know what to do and behave badly.
I had one very creepy experience. The last 30 minutes while the kids were finishing their snack, my child went to look out the closed window. He climbed a 2 foot thing attached attached to the wall to look up. A supervisor (a small lady) popped up out of nowhere pointing at him telling him to get down repeatedly (while I was already there telling him the same thing). When I told her that I can tell him myself she was saying how dangerous it is and anything could happen while the teacher was rolling her eyes at me for SPEAKING. As I said, she popped up out of nowhere, she was not in the room the whole day, was she watching us through a camera? She (the supervisor) went to sit at her spot for the last 15 minutes with only 4 children in the room, with 2 teachers already present and 4 parents. Apparently that is not enough supervision while they are sitting there eating snacks. Very strange and creepy. I get home with headaches. I only went 2 or 3 times. I could not force myself to go again. I do not understand how parents enjoy this oppressive environment. This should not be tolerated. I'm sure there is much more i forgot to mention. I will continue to look for another centre where my child is cherished and appreciated, not treated like a criminal. I'm sure there is at least one centre out there that could be leading as an example, or are these kinds of environments necessary for some entities to feed their low vibrational life force while imposing it self-righteously on every one else?
I had one very creepy experience. The last 30 minutes while the kids were finishing their snack, my child went to look out the closed window. He climbed a 2 foot thing attached attached to the wall to look up. A supervisor (a small lady) popped up out of nowhere pointing at him telling him to get down repeatedly (while I was already there telling him the same thing). When I told her that I can tell him myself she was saying how dangerous it is and anything could happen while the teacher was rolling her eyes at me for SPEAKING. As I said, she popped up out of nowhere, she was not in the room the whole day, was she watching us through a camera? She (the supervisor) went to sit at her spot for the last 15 minutes with only 4 children in the room, with 2 teachers already present and 4 parents. Apparently that is not enough supervision while they are sitting there eating snacks. Very strange and creepy. I get home with headaches. I only went 2 or 3 times. I could not force myself to go again. I do not understand how parents enjoy this oppressive environment. This should not be tolerated. I'm sure there is much more i forgot to mention. I will continue to look for another centre where my child is cherished and appreciated, not treated like a criminal. I'm sure there is at least one centre out there that could be leading as an example, or are these kinds of environments necessary for some entities to feed their low vibrational life force while imposing it self-righteously on every one else?
I came to know this place ever since we moved to Eglington area and I am extremely happy with what the place offered to my son who is 4yo. The associates are kind, attention to detail and are welcome to provide any help and information for all the concerns we raised, apart from teaching our kids different kinds of programs. My son has gain a lot of things ever since we started coming to this center and I recommend ever parent to have a visit to the place once the pandemic is over.
During the pandemic, the center also started providing an online session to kids of different age and parents also were given a chance to have their own time to discuss issues they have in regards to raising a child. My son and I are happy with what we have been given during the zoom hour. The program aimed to helping kids keep their social skills and encourage them to express their thoughts and that very much was helpful to my son who I thought quarantine was making him less active.
Massive shoutout to the stuffs, Zhila, Shemim, Marjorie and others who relentlessly caring for our kids.
During the pandemic, the center also started providing an online session to kids of different age and parents also were given a chance to have their own time to discuss issues they have in regards to raising a child. My son and I are happy with what we have been given during the zoom hour. The program aimed to helping kids keep their social skills and encourage them to express their thoughts and that very much was helpful to my son who I thought quarantine was making him less active.
Massive shoutout to the stuffs, Zhila, Shemim, Marjorie and others who relentlessly caring for our kids.
I brought my 3-year-old granddaughter to the class. It is a old, traditional Italian community center. The program was good, teachers are great and my granddaughter had a good time
Learning center for the infants and toddlers.. They have different activities for kids. Staff are at time arrogant but kids will have fun time playing with other kids of their age..