The person who raised them.
Little VIP Daycare & Private School, LLC is a licensed family-home childcare and preschool built around one goal: a learning environment suited to each child's development. It is a certified family care home, which means the same standards a certified center is held to, kept inside an actual house. It is also, very much, one person's house and one person's standards.
OwnerLai Stender
Owner, administrator, cook, and second mom to a lot of kids.
Lai is the owner and administrator of Little VIP Daycare & Private School. She has been happily married for more than twenty years and shares her home with two Pomeranians who take their supervisory duties very seriously.
Ask Lai why she runs the place the way she does and she will tell you.
I want to treat others like how I wanted to be treated when I came to America.
In practice that means meeting families where they are and bending to what they need, whether that is a part-time start for a nervous two-year-old or a midday text to say nap went fine. Ask her how she measures success and she points to the kids: the ones in her care today, the ones who have moved on to elementary school, and the changes you see in your own child after only a few weeks. Her proudest one is simple. Her Pre-K kids read before kindergarten.
I strive to create an atmosphere in which each child feels encouraged to open up and take chances in their academic career as well as with their personal relationships with the other children.
PhilosophyWhat guides us
The highest quality care, every day
Every early childhood program should provide the highest quality care for young children. We hold ourselves to that standard every single day.
The whole child, in a place that feels safe
Support the whole child through developmentally appropriate programming in a secure, child-centered setting where kids feel safe to try new things.
Deeper roots in the community
Be a recognized leader in childcare, promoting lifelong learning and deeper roots in the community we serve.
Six yearsWhy families stay
From first steps to first diplomas.
Families join us with babies and toddlers and stay through kindergarten graduation. Along the way their kids learn to read, make friends, pick apples, sing in the Christmas recital, and cross our little stage in a cap and gown, ready for elementary school.
Parents stay close too. Lai holds family dinners, holiday gatherings, and the Easter festival on purpose and often, and daily texts from teachers mean you never have to guess how the day went. Over the years the clients stopped being clients. They are friends. Lai goes to their weddings.
The clearest proof is a teacher's aide who works here every summer: one of Lai's own preschoolers, grown up now, who came back.
Meet Lai in person.
A tour is the fastest way to know if this is your kid's place. Bring them along.