Forest Edge Playhouse, Reston

We’ve sent our daughter here for about a year and a half, since she was 3 months old. We couldn’t be happier. She is a wonderful lady who clearly cares very much for the children. We feel very fortunate to have found her. Our daughter loves it. It’s an in home daycare, so the facilities are not the same as at a large center, but they meet the needs well. The back door leads to a small fenced in play area, and there’s a larger tot lot behind the house that they go to very frequently.

This childcare is probably the best decision we’ve taken for our son. We have known this provider for over a decade now, and she’s an extension to our family. My son initially, as most children, went through a period of adjustment at daycare, but quickly grew to love this place. He absolutely adores this provider and her staff, and often doesn't want to come back home during pick up. This daycare is abt a 20-30 mins drive for us, but we wouldn't change it for the world and it is absolutely worth the additional time. This provider is trained specialist in the field and children are just naturally drawn to her. I would strongly encourage anyone looking for childcare services to consider this childcare as you can be assured of peace of mind to know that your child is in trusted, well-trained, experienced, and nurturing hands. Thank you for all that you do!

I found the place is very good for children. they have very good staff and children are took care very well.

I enrolled my daughter (about 7 months old at the time) here as a small trial and then full-time from January. I love everything about Forest Edge. The provider and all the caretakers are attentive and loving. Leela is now going to turn 15 months old and is a confident, bright girl who has developed good social, motor, and emotional skills far beyond children her age. Since she joined the daycare, she's taken an interest in the outdoors, exploration, reading (the library hosts reading hours here) and I am so happy with everything. The provider and her team are very open and have a kind of both-of-us-together care model where she talks to the parents individually about their child and their wellbeing and growth. I feel like Leela may be at daycare but I don't miss out on her big moments at all :)

We moved to the area with little advanced notice, and had to find childcare fast! I was a bit nervous about putting our 11 month old daughter in an in-home daycare with no personal references, but we couldn’t be happier with our experience the past two-and-a-half months. By the second day, she was going to the teachers without crying - something we never achieved at her previous daycare when we dropped her off. She is clearly very happy and comfortable there with all the teachers and peers. The teachers have been working with her to learn many new skills, and due to their efforts to teach all the kids good manners and behavior, she has not picked up any negative behaviors from the other children. It is clear the teachers and other children love our daughter, and they create a family-like atmosphere at this small daycare. I now realize that an in-home daycare offers many benefits not found at a larger center. The parents all know one another and the other children. As an added benefit, our daughter hasn’t really been sick since being in the daycare; in a larger center, she seemed to have a runny nose fairly consistently. Being surrounded by children of all different ages (she’s the youngest) has helped advance her language development very quickly as well. And she gets so much personalized attention from the teachers, who also communicate well with us as her parents. Not knowing anyone in the area when we moved here, this little daycare has really started to feel like a family to us. I highly recommend it!

We were very concerned with the development of our child and with the great reviews on this place we started sending our kid here, Not even a single day we don't talk about what a best decision we made , we saw a huge difference in personal development . I would strongly recommend this provider and how professional she is. My Kid loves to wake up happy and not even a single day he doesn't want to go here.

My daughter attended this place from the time she was 6 months to 5 years old. Under this provider's care my daughter rarely fell ill, she was always learning new things and there were lots of fun activities throughout the year. My daughter even learnt basics of reading and math giving her a smooth transition into kindergarten. This place has a safe, clean and friendly environment and I would highly recommend it to anyone seeking good child care.

I honestly could not speak highly enough about this Childcare and the amazing job that this provider and the teaching staff do. We have been with the center for 4.5 years; our oldest started at 3 months old and our youngest started at 6 months old. Our children have had the most incredible experience here, where they constantly learn and steadily grow. Our daughter will be more than ready to start kindergarten, as she is already reading thanks to this provider's structured curriculum. This provider truly creates a community, where all the parents know one another and all of the children. There has never been a time in the past 4.5 years where I thought my kids would benefit more from a different center. The children are clearly loved by the entire staff, and they show love in return for their teachers. We have been so blessed to have this amazing childcare center for our children.

Choosing to send our children to this daycare has been one of our best childcare decisions. When we were expecting our second one, there was no doubt in our minds about where we were sending her. This daycare is well run, clean and provides a warm, safe place where we know our kids are loved, cared for and are learning and growing while having fun at the same time. We drop off our kids each morning with the peace of mind that we’re handing them off to a second set of parents. This provider has a background in education and is therefore able to lay a solid foundation for the kids around fundamental concepts such as multiplication, time, money etc. Going into kindergarten, her kids are well prepared and confident. I would highly recommend this daycare. It has been one of the best decisions for our family.

It is one of the best home daycare in the reston area. My kid loves going to this daycare. The staff is very good. I am very happy with the quality of education my kid is getting along with the other activities. Highly recommended this daycare.

Be very cautious before putting your LO in this home day care. We did a mistake and realized it soon. When we visited first time, the care provider assured us that she would take personal care of our 11 months old. She assured that she would not enforce their daily routine and would mould her slowly. On first day we had put our LO for just one hour and for full day on second and third day. The very second day, she asked me that how would our LO sleep at 1.00pm as she took her short nap between 10am-10.45am, she will cry and other kids will be disturbed. I requested her to take my LO in other room if she doesn’t sleep and if other kids are sleeping. She refused to do that and said that all the caretakers take their lunch at that time and some rest. How can they think that 11 months old will get into their routine in just one day? Those made us realize that how less they care about babies and their needs. The baby crib mattress was very thin just around 1-2 inches. When I asked her for thick mattress, she explained that it came with crib and they are not going to replace it. We did not like either the mattress or the response and the way she responded. We knew that the mattress was uncomfortable. We even repented that we did not notice it during our first visit. Same day I visited in afternoon to check, my LO was sleeping with her bib. They did not even care to take that off while she was sleeping. They explained that my daughter drools. My daughter did not ever drool but she might have because of crying too much. Third day in the evening when we went to pick her up, she had food all over her face & hand. She had her snack at 3:30 according to their daily chart and we picked her up at 4:40. That means our daughter was like that for almost an hour. Both I and my husband were in huge pain to see her like that. In evening, we also realized that her voice was changed. We are sure it must be because of her constant screaming. We do not think that anyone harmed her but we were very sure that nobody cared enough to soothe her or calm her. We immediately decided to take our daughter off the care. To top all this, caregiver did not show slight touch of humanity. She kept money for whole week along with registration fee which we felt was reasonable. But she did not return full deposit as well. We did not care and happily agreed. Other points to note – She keeps just one assistant in the evening along with her for 12 kids. She allows other young girls in the kids area. This should not be allowed in a professional home day care.