The Kid's Place

Our daughter is attending this school and we have had the best experience as new parents. They have helped us by putting her on a schedule, have encouraged her crawling and even know the little nuances that we are aware of. Recently, our little girl has been very clingy with me, but she is the same way with her head teacher. To me, this shows that there is a lot of trust and love. I have also noticed that some of the parents have the teachers babysit their children on the week-ends as well... thus it seems that other parents share my in site.

We toured this school when we looked for a day care center for our daughter. We felt the infant area was a little cramped and really preferred a school with a smaller number of kids. Friends of ours told us about the school and had previously sent their child here and liked the teachers. They said they didn't feel that the kids were learning as much as they would have liked.

My son is almost 2 years old and recently attended this school for a little over 2 months and was bitten 4 times… by 4 different children. The first time I let slide because I understand how children are at this age. Then a week later he was bitten again, by another child. I was told that the child who bit him had been dismissed from school and sent an email by the owner stating their policy. She never called us directly, simply sent an email. A month later he was bitten again and this time we were not informed that he had been bitten, we found it when we were undressing him for a bath. I immediately called and emailed the owner and requested a meeting. During that meeting the owner and one of the teachers from the toddler class admitted that they could use another teacher. His teacher also admitted to seeing another child bite my son but couldn’t find a mark so decided not to report it. My husband and I talked after our meeting with them and decided to take our son out of this school and when I returned to pick him up he had been bitten again, by another child and this time neither of his teachers saw it happen. They are clearly understaffed and unfortunately it affected my son. I want to leave my son somewhere where I feel comfortable that he will be safe and I no longer felt as though he would be safe at The Kids Place in Corte Madera.
I feel that my son was and abused while under the care of The Kids Place and immediately withdrew him from their program.
I am glad that there are children there who are happy. I just wanted to inform anyone looking for child care of my experience because I would have liked to have had this information prior to choosing to enroll my son there.

My daughter attended Kids’ Place for four years from 2003 through 2007. She had a wonderful experience there. The teachers were kind and loving. They did many age-appropriate creative activities with the children from science projects to art projects to theater. They also taught wonderful social skills like respecting one’s classmates and resolving conflict as well as good every day manners (we still talk about the “common courtesies” that my daughter learned there). My daughter was extremely happy there and left full of confidence and ready to excel in kindergarten. When my son needed a child care center in 2008, I did not hesitate to enroll him at Kids’ Place. He has had a very similar experience to my daughter.

I think one of the reasons that the environment at Kids’ Place is so amazing is that the director and the owner are passionate about making Kids’ Place the wonderful center that is. They both truly love children and are continually striving to create a place where children can learn and thrive. They work long hours to ensure that every child’s needs are met and that the staff are well educated in the curriculum and happy in their work. As a result, there has been very little staff turnover. I could not recommend Kids’ Place more highly for someone looking for child care.

This summer, The Kids Place is closing our infant center and opening a new "Senior Pre-K" program. We will have 15 new pre-k spaces available. This program will be for children who are developmentally ready for greater challenges in literacy, numeracy and science.

Our program is inspired by the Reggio approach to early learning and includes the best from other educational philosophies as well. Come for a tour and see our creative classrooms filled with the joy of discovery and learning!