"A mother-and-daughter daycare nurturing kindness, curiosity, and big feelings — one circle time, garden harvest, and home-cooked meal at a time."
Garden Creek isn't a building with a curriculum — it's a home with a mom and her daughter who happen to be wildly good at raising tiny humans.
For two decades, this mother–daughter team has welcomed Pleasanton's little ones into a home where shoes come off, knees get dirty, and feelings — all of them — get to sit at the table. They grew up doing this work together, and it shows in how the day flows: warmly, unhurriedly, with a lot of laughter and the occasional muddy hand-print on the wall.
We don't drill flashcards. We model the things that matter and we practice them, in real time, with snacks involved.
How we speak to one another. How we share. How we say "please." How we mean it.
"I feel frustrated." "I feel proud." Naming emotions is half the battle, we work on it every day.
Yes is yes, no is no, and "my body belongs to me" is learned young. We honor that here.
Asking. Listening. Looking each other in the eye. The world needs more of this, we start early.
Loud kid? Shy kid? Big-feeling kid? Quirky-collector-of-rocks kid? All welcome. All celebrated.
Everything else is built on this one. Discipline with love. Learning with love. Goodbyes with love.
No two days look exactly alike (kids are weather systems, not schedules), but here's the gentle rhythm we move to.
Hugs at the door, shoes off, slow hellos. The day starts gently, for everyone.
Songs, a story, today's weather, today's feelings. We start the day knowing where everyone's at.
Out to the garden. We water, we plant, we taste a strawberry. We learn where food comes from.
Home-cooked, organic, and made with love. We sit at the table together like a family.
Block towers, dress-up, sidewalk chalk, made-up games with very strict rules. Imagination running the show.
Naps for the littles, story books for the bigs. Everyone gets a breath.
Show-and-tell of the day's drawings, hugs at the door, and parents back in the loop.
Our daughter has been going to Garden Creek since she was 19 months old. She loves it there — looks forward to it every single morning.
My daughter has been going for three years. She thinks of them as family. As a parent, it's the most wonderful feeling to know she's so well taken care of.
Garden Creek goes above and beyond. The personal attention and the love and care provided to my son was simply unparalleled.
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