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Childrens Country House
2821 Santa Rosa Ave, Altadena, CA 91001, United States
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Ka
Review №1

Childrens Country House is an amazing safe learning environment that we have entrusted to nurture our three year old for over one year now. Miss Debera along with the whole staff have an amazing approach to teaching and guiding children. Our daughter has grown so much since beginning at CCH. We love the space the children are given to explore. We may say upon first glance that it is a bit rustic. We love it! Our daughter often comes home with dirt in her nails and stories of searching the grounds for milky quartz. The staff is attentive and loving. We couldnt ask for a better experience when it comes to our childs daycare. Thanks you CCH!

A
Review №2

CCH is the best preschool in the area, hands down. It is the only place where your kid can experience farm-like freedom while living in a city: huge yard to run around, trees to limb up, animals to feed. Plus, caring and knowledgeable teachers!

Ka
Review №3

My daughter has been attending the CCH for a year. And I am so in love with the preschool! Its a place youd recommend to your best friend or a sister. Its located on a quiet street near the Xmas Tree Ln. There is a huge yard with the fruit trees there. Kids are encouraged to run around and be active, which is the best for their health and development. There are animals - a pony, a rabbit, and goats there. Children help feed them and pat.The teachers are super experienced and caring. The schedule is very flexible, part time and full time care available. I just could not wish anything better for my kid. So glad I found them.

Ap
Review №4

Childrens Country house was an awesome start to my childrens education. They are now in a 2nd grade gifted program. I credit this school because it gave my children a relaxed therapeutic environment to learn and just be kids. My daughter left the school with the aspiration of being a teacher and still talks about being a teacher to this day. My children were encouraged to play as a way of learning and had a very large outdoor play yard that exposed my children to nature, not asphalt and plastic like the typical preschool of today. There are even rescued animals on the edges of the play yard: goats, pony, ducks, and rabbit which my children had the opportunity to feed and pet. It was a blessing to pick up my children from school and see happy children who always looked forward to going back.I highly look forward to sending my youngest child here soon as she approaches her 2nd birthday.

Iv
Review №5

This place is different from most other mainstream American city places. If you are willing to see through the appearances, your kid can be happy here. Most things are outdated here but my kid is welcome and he feels it. When they say hello in the morning, its not fake. Other kids also say hello to my kid, which didnt happen in some other places. You may think going to the most expensive place you get the best care overall, but its just not that simple. You cant buy genuine caring.

A
Review №6

We love Childrens Country House. Both our daughters have attended the school for a total of 3 years now. Rebecca is a fantastic teacher anc we always know how much she caves for the kids. CCH has been a place our kids can play and just enjoy being kids at play, and create.

Ox
Review №7

First time my son was attending Children Country House for 3 month in Summer 2014. He was 3 years old diagnosed with autism. The director of the school, Debera was aware of that and she kindly accepted him saying she already has an experience with this type of kids. The problem with my son - he has speech delay, doesn’t usually participate in group play, has hard time paying attention to the teacher and might be aggressive to other kids if they bother him. During the school year he attends special education class in Webster Elementary public school. That summer time in 2014 went so well, so we decided to return to this school for another summer in 2015. This time Debera asked me to pay registration fee $125 again, although she promised in 2004 not to do it if we return. She was not able to find our file and asked me to do paperwork again. We agreed that he will be attending from June 8th to August 18th. No copy of agreement I received. I was paying monthly full time $895 for two months. On July 30th I asked to give me total for the August (I estimated for myself about $230 - from August 9th to 14th - decided to cut the time for Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th). Already in August I got a surprise note from Debera, saying that she had been hiring a special person for my son in order to put him for the nap and want to charge me extra $250 for the time he already spent plus half of the month (she forgot I was paying since 8th day). Nobody told me about special person hired for naps and always when i asked how was he during the day - both teachers (Rebecca and Nancy) were saying, he is fine never going to details. I was frustrated, called Debera, we had a conversation, she was apologizing that she forgot to tell me about “extra” care and eventually decided to pay that extra because it I needed that one more week to keep my son in his school and didn’t was to disappoint Debera. Once I brought a check for $478.75 ($250 extra care and $228.75 for one week of August 10th to 14th) a few days later on August 8th, she gave me another notice, saying that my son was such a trouble so she (instead of calling me again) paid $50 to one more person to watch for him! I was upset and said I was picking him up last time and never return, asked to return my money for the week of August (it was August 8th) and she said I owe her even more. I politely reminded her about all my payments and amounts and asked to look more carefully and left. Than I was calling her 2 times every other day to remind to look into my payments, eventually she agreed to send me a check by mail but didnt say the total. I hoped it should be at least $200.On August 22th eventually I got a letter from Children Country House with words “during the summer I (Debera) spent about $400 of my own money to hire people to help with him (my son). We don’t refund money when people take their children out of school”.How come it is $400 already? Why she never told me before hiring extra persons? I feel hoodwinked. I doubting all her words, there is no evidence of third persons hired into school for that purpose (my friend’s son also a student there, she picks up her son earlier and she never saw anybody besides regular teachers watching for my son). Also no reports were from schoolthat my son “socked two teachers and bit two kids”, I was informed about that in the last letter, written on August 15th. Besides that, ones in July he returned with a huge bump on his forehead, no report was about it and no teacher saw what had happened, another time with deep bloody scratch on his leg - again no report and no witnesses.I’m very unhappy with my experience in Children Country House, I would not recommend anybody to have business with their director Debera.

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  • Address:2821 Santa Rosa Ave, Altadena, CA 91001, United States
  • Site:http://www.pasadenachildcareprovider.com/
  • Phone:+1 626-798-8083
Categories
  • Preschool
  • Child care agency
  • Day care center
Working hours
  • Monday:Closed
  • Tuesday:7AM–6:30PM
  • Wednesday:7AM–6:30PM
  • Thursday:7AM–6:30PM
  • Friday:7AM–6:30PM
  • Saturday:7AM–6:30PM
  • Sunday:Closed
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