All About Kids

This review is about camp specifically. As other negative reviews have pointed out, this place is chaotic and most of the people that work here are very young with no real childcare experience. While they accept four-year-olds for camp, they really should not. Children this age are either coming from home or coming from a preschool environment and are used to and require more supervision than what is provided here. I’m not even sure I’d send a five-year-old here. I read the review seven years ago about the four year old that almost drowned, and had to be resuscitated, and it does not surprise me at all based on the level of experience that the young people watching these children have. I’m glad they don’t allow four-year-olds in the pool anymore, which may correct that specific danger, but does not correct the fact that they have younger, less-experienced adults watching children in a ratio that is far too many children per counselor. I sent my four-year-old there for three days of camp. I only saw what went on in the early care and after care, but each time there seem to be only one adult present in a room with many children of all ages, running around on structures and bouncy houses where the children were not always visible to the adults. The adults were present and available if the children came up and voiced a problem, but there’s no way that they could be watching the children enough to prevent an issue from occurring by monitoring safe play. I imagine that many accidents are avoided by sheer luck. If a child needs to go to the restroom, they are simply directed to do so and told to return. This may be fine for an older elementary school child, but it’s not quite appropriate for a four-year-old. At one point my daughter was directed to a restroom and then couldn’t get out because the door was too heavy for her. No one came looking for her, and she was crying in there for who knows how long until a passing parent heard her and opened the door. Not to mention that at any time she could have wandered away from the restroom, or or have been lured away by an adult or young person with bad intentions. This child barely weighs 30 pounds, and was basically left on her own to wander the halls and come back when she’s done. There were other smaller things that occurred. Such as, she took off her socks while playing, and when we couldn’t find them at the end of the day, I was told by several people that usually they throw away socks. Since we looked around the building pretty thoroughly when I picked her up, it’s possible that her socks were thrown away before we even had the opportunity to look for them. Overall my daughter enjoyed her time there, except for the bathroom incident, which terrified her. But all in all, there are just too many red flags in terms of level of care and supervision that make me feel like this place is an accident waiting to happen. Anything from crowding/exuberant play getting out of hand, to child predators, to fire in the building, or other emergency, I do not think they would be prepared to handle appropriately and are definitely not in a situation to prevent. There’s just too much chaos there, and not enough eyes on the children.