I enrolled my 22 month old son in the YKROK facility in Bagmante tech park. I took the half day option and to begin with started going at 11.00am to 1.00pm and was there in the center all this while for a week. My experience with YKROK was much worse than I expected. This is what I saw:-
When I entered at 11.00.the center was unusually silent except for the infants crying. Found it strange considering there were more than 25 kids there.
But found this is the way it was specially in the toddlers section since all the kids were on there own.
The toddler section had 8 kids and one attendant for them, who is not even a trained teacher. A lady who looked like a teacher would come once in a while to interact with the kids, but apart from that the kids were on their own.
-No one made any effort in the one week to make my son comfortable or engage him. Looks like since the mother is accompanying the child, its her duty to ensure that the kid gets settled.
There were no activated planned for the kids, from 11 to 1 my son was supposed to go pick up the toys and find ways to amuse himself. Not sure if a 22 month old has the intelligence or the ability to do that.
The kids were take for a dance class where the music was played and they were again left on their own. Only once in a week did I see the attendants make some effort to dance with them and engage them and only once they sang nursery rhymes for 5 mins.
The attendant would sit in one part of the room and keep calling out names of the kids.thats it, There is nothing else that she did to engage the kids.
-Twice I saw a toddler put a thumb pin in his mouth. How did he even get that?
The first day I saw a toddler had a pencil in her hand and could poke other kids.
The food was substandard. I don’t think anyone tastes the food before serving it to the kids. They had freshly washed wet steel plates lined up for the kids and food was served in small quantities. Since there was generally one person for so many toddlers.a few fussy/silent eaters would remain hungry since they just wont know. This was the most sorry thing there. I felt really sad for the kids. Also they way they were being fed was astonishing.
In the one week I never saw anyone asking the kids if they needed a second helping. They just assumed the kids weren’t hungry. So if your kid comes back home from the day care really hungry you know now.
-In the 2 hours that I spent there I did not see anyone asking the kids if they wanted to have water. Strange, how is a toddler supposed to tell you that he is thirsty or is this a way to make them independent.
- Once a little girl came from the infant section to the toddler section because she was crying there.she cried and cried here also and no one bothered and eventually fell asleep on the floor and no one bothered.
-I saw a kid being made to hold her years and stand in one corner.this was in the pre-nursery section. I am not sure if this is the right thing.
- A big wooden toy fell on a kid and thankfully there was no injury.
All this happened while I was there so I don’t know what will happen when I am not around. All these observations are from the toddler section. It’s just that there is no involvement, no attention love or care for the kids. The attendants are only interested in gossiping and there is a definite lack of trained staff.
I am a very unhappy client and will not recommend any parent to put their kids in the Bagmane day care. There are much happier places you can take your kids to and they definitely don’t deserve this.