Why We're Different

At Cedar Gables we like to say we have “the feel of home-based care…where your child can choose their friends” because that’s part of what makes us different. It is a challenge to put together the unique benefits of a small home-based care setting and still have the program quality of a larger center, but we hope you’ll agree we have hit the sweet spot in this regard. Check out why we think we are just the right sized center for your family.

Home-Based

Benefits include a more “home like” environment, closer teach/child bonds, mixed age groups, more consistency, typically greater flexibility, and a lower cost on average. However, there are also challenges.

Home-based care typically has less educated teachers, uses little or no curriculum, has less security, isn’t able to leverage technology to improve your experience, and there often is no backup. Plus in a sole caregiver situation trust is essential since no one else is watching.

We’re Just Right!

At Cedar Gables we believe we have the perfect combination of the benefits of both home-based care and large childcare centers. Small enough for that ‘home away from home’ feeling, yet large enough to support essentials like security and surveillance, curriculum and training, and employee benefits to reduce turnover.

Large Centers

Benefits include more educated and trained caregivers, a structured schedule and school-like environment, an educationally enriched curriculum, use of technology to assist learning and enhance your experience, opportunities to socialize more, better security and surveillance, as well as backups when staff are out. There are also challenges with this model as well.

Large childcare center typically have higher turnover rates, there is less consistency in caregivers throughout the day, less flexibility with company policies, higher tuition rates, and typically a more “corporate” feel that is not as personal.