In His Hands Learning Center Inc
| Address: | 14405 Peacock Hill Ave NW, Gig Harbor, WA 98332, USA |
| Phone: | +1 253-851-8266 |
| Site: | inhishandsgigharbor.com |
| Rating: | 2.9 |
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Darth Vigorous
The staff at that daycare both verbal and physically assaulted me from the age of 3 to 9 years old back in 2003., whenever I questioned God and their Christian beliefs. The first amendment of the U.S. Constitution states that Congress “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Thomas Jefferson’s famous phrase, "Separation of church and state", expresses the intent and function of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. During my childhood years, from the age of three to nine, I often questioned my female day care supervisors at my Christian daycare, In His Hands, about the proof of God’s existence. Asking them such questions led to punishments, from being put in time-out with toddlers, to physical beatings by other children saying that I did not believe in God. Due to my opinions about Christianity, I was treated as a subhuman and experienced alienation and isolation as a child. When I questioned my daycare supervisors about the proof of God’s existence, the occasional result of me doing so was punishment on a scale from time-outs to physical assault. One question I asked was, “If Adam made Eve, with the help of God, by removing one of his ribs, how did he survive such an act, and why do modern women not have an extra rib?” Another question I asked the teacher and other kids was, “If people ascend to Heaven and transform into angels when they die, how come I have never seen one when I am above the clouds in an airplane? Where is the proof?” Their response to these questions was putting me in time-out. One particular incident that made me feel isolated was when a daycare supervisor allowed one of the kids who occasionally bullied me to physically pound my sternum with the palms of his hands. When the incident occurred, the supervisor was a twenty-five-year-old woman, the bully who beat my chest was nine years old, and I was only six. The incident started when I stole blackberries from one of the bushes that grew on the other side of the fence from the daycare. When the other kids picked them, the daycare supervisors would tell them that they were sprayed with pesticides that could be poisonous and remind them not to eat them again. However, when I ate them for the first time and was caught, the daycare supervisor had everyone round up in a circle in the daycare’s playground while she called poison control. While that was happening, she instructed the bully to make me lie flat on my back on the ground while he pounded my chest with his palms, which really hurt and she told him to keep doing it, even if I asked him to stop and I was crying. The supervisor sat on the playground equipment and tapped her foot while she was waiting for the phone to pick up. She was not acting like my life was in danger. After half an hour, she told the kid to stop. Everyone laughed at me while she told them that she did not call anyone at all, and this was just to teach me a lesson for eating the blackberries and for previously offending the daycare by saying that I did not believe in God and would not follow the rules. This was apparently one of their ways to, as Brent Staples says, “… screen out troublesome individuals before there [was] any nastiness” (Staples 225). To this day, I wonder if she would have actually called someone if my life had been in danger from eating those berries.
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Kaeley Triller
I have two children who attend In His Hands Learning Center. This is our FOURTH day care. My son has some mild special needs, and the director at our previous day care wanted to order a restraining chair for him, claiming she was concerned because she had never seen a child like him in her 12 years of experience. Coming to In His Hands has been a breath of fresh air. They have a sensory room for kids who need extra tactile input, they have specific activities planned throughout the day, so I never feel like my kids are just grazing around aimlessly, and the staff are really communicative and warm with my kids. I dont know who wrote the scathing reviews below, but I have noticed that the staff who have suddenly disappeared have generally been the ones whose quality of care was substandard. I love In His Hands and would gladly recommend them to any parent.
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Anonymous User
This daycare is awful I personally worked there so I know how it is. They fired me because they knew I wasn't gonna play their games. There far to understaffed, the other employees care less about the children, they write down the kids were changed when they haven't been, they wipe there faces with wet dirty cold rags, and to get the ones who don't wanna nap to lay down they have pinned them down with there legs and let them cry till they fall asleep. The management is rude and disrespectful and it's way over priced for what it is....?christian? Yea they act far from it behind the parents backs!!!! I do not recommend this daycare to anyone
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Cindy Luckie
How does one say something without negative repercussions dumped onto employees? The employees are treated with no respect, told to go home and put make-up on, yelled at in front of the children yet have no ability to respond in any situation. Contracts are signed but not fully honored by the highest management person. Employees are encouraged to tell tales about other employees...all in all, not a very Christian way of running a business.
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Anonymous User
Have a friend who used to use this daycare. Drivers were late picking up child because driver was at post office in Olalla smoking (when center called we were told she was on break), the child was crying & scared because noone was there to pick her up. Other times when the children were picked up they had dirty faces with food still on them, full diapers etc. Would not encourage anyone to use the Peacock Hill branch!
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Vanesss Taylor
I have 2 children at this day care. My oldest has been there for five years, my youngest for three. My kids enjoy their time there and as a mom I cannot express how wonderful it to leave my kids every morning with caring professional caregivers. My kids feel safe and secure and they thrive in the environment provided at In His Hands.
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Preston Nixon
Staff and cleanliness