There are only exceptional things to say about Little Darlings. Principal Sharon runs a tight ship - making sure her staff are educated, skilled and competent to deal with the responsibilities she hires them for.The facilities are clean, well-equipped and up to date and a lovely outdoor garden. The proof is in the happy children!!

A very clean and sanitised creche with a constant emphasis on stimulating activities for the children. Principal is friendly and well educated ensuring daughter always came home learning something new. My daughter was well prepared for grade R after attending this creche. 5 stars

Simply the best daycare centre in Cape Town, all of the staff are friendly and professional, the facility is very clean and safe for the children with ample security, including video entry phone and a camera outside the front door.Parents are always made to feel welcome and any concerns are always addressed professionally.The children are treated as though they are part of one big family and the principle goes out of her way to make sure that the children are superbly prepared for Grade R.Our experience was that schools tend to look favourably on children who have attended Little Darlings as a pre school.Highly recommended

This was before lockdown. After my husband saw the place only once, they told us to drop the baby no problem without even get inside the room.When I got in the morning the place was dark very dim light no natural light. The principal was wearing a dress not in line with the type of job.A teacher introduced herself saying to drop the baby trying not to show me the close room with many kids playing and streaming to each other. The teacher was alone with all of them I could not count she semi close the room. It was the worst moment to separate for my daughter but my husband keeps saying I am too paranoid. I went to work for 4 hours and I had that constantly feeling that I brought my daughter to the worst prison I had seen. When I fetch my daughter in tears and traumatised for the whole journey back home. I noticed she had a Huge BRUCE on her neck definitely not done by a child. I told the principal and she said she must have fell. They were not sure about it! We are glad I never brought my daughter back after 4 traumatising hours of our life.I feel still guilty to have left my daughter for those long 4 hours.I wanted to sue the crèche but my husband kept saying it is not my business.Well I hope this horrible place can change.If you are in doubt how a crèche should be run please visit The French Nursery School in Woodstock. My daughter is the happiest!

My daughter has been with little darlings from a young age until she left for grade R, and from my personal perspective I must say, EXCELLENT!! I have never seen such dedicated personnel, dispite the challenges they are faced with on a day to day i can not once say that I wasnt pleased with the results. Keep up the Good work!!!

Lovely atmosphere, wonderful environment, warm staff, well educated principal and very clean facility. Food is also good.

My little girl, Ava loves Little Darlings. She has been there from the age of 3 months and has grown into a confident little girl. She has grown emotionally and physically and can’t stop talking about how wonderful the staff are or how happy she is at the crèche.It breaks my heart to read such horrible reviews filled with unnecessary hatred towards the crèche. The crèche does not deserve that as in my experience, none of that appears to be true at all.The staff and Sharon have a passion for their job, love the children and I have not sensed any unhappiness between staff members. Unhappiness rubs off on the children and Ava never came home with complaints, only a smile on her face.Sharon has never asked us for R500 before which makes me believe that this particular reviewer is perhaps not at the same crèche?Keep up the good work, Sharon and staff. We love you.Ava and Tracy

I am originally from Johannesburg and relocated to Cape Town 2 years ago. This crèche was a recommendation from a friend. At first I thought it was too pricy but soon came to realize that you pay for quality. The price includes all meals for the day, snacks plus educational material. The crèche is open until 6 which was convenient for me as I worked until 5 and sat in traffic.It broke my heart when we had to relocate to Johannesburg as my son, Daniel cried for Sharon everyday. He misses the crèche dearly and was truly the happiest child he’s ever been while there.I wish Sharon would open a Little Darlings here too!

This is the most wonderful crèche and I highly recommend it. My twin babies were at the crèche from January until March.The environment is a clean, safe and friendly place. My girls and I felt like we were a part of a family.The staff are friendly and welcomed us with a smile everyday. The principal, Sharon is a wonderful person who put my mind at ease by sending me daily updates and always listening to all of my concerns no matter how petty it seemed. She gave me great parenting advice and Is highly educated. Truly an amazing human being who loves my girls as her own.The crèche itself is safe and fully secure. My girls came home clean, well fed and happy everyday. The only complaint that I do have is that my babies refused to leave the crèche when I fetched them in the afternoons and would scream when I tried to take them home.That, in itself, says a lot.I highly recommend this crèche.

My partner, Josef and I enrolled our son, Axl at Little Darlings when we just adopted him as a baby. As a gay couple and first time parents, we were pleasantly surprised to be welcomed with open arms by Sharon. No prejudice at all. We had moved to Cape Town from the Netherlands and found the crèche to be up to European standards, which was very refreshing.Axl learned to talk at a very young age, which came as a surprise to us as there are 2 languages in our home.Josef and I were shocked to read this vile, angry review. It seems to us as that the lockdown probably affected this particular persons mind and she has pent up anger directed at the wrong person.I would not normally respond to these petty reviewers but I felt this to be unfair and filled with lies.Axl misses you Sharon and the team and we will never forget all that you have done for us.Big thumbs up from The Netherlands

I feel the need to let other parents know, what’s going on at little darlings.My daughter was in the nursery from January 20 till Lockdown.The creche is quite pricy, for what they offer. The building itself is in a big need of renovations, and as i heard, R500 was collected from each parent to redo the floors. But was never done. Money was gone, nothing renovated.There is zero security policy. The outside door is a wooden door, there is no way to see for the teachers, on who is ringing bell since according to the principal putting a camera outside is “putting money down the drain” due to too much theft. (she is aware of theft in the street but not worried about babies being kidnapped - i’m just gonna leave that there)One of the teachers in the nursery is a wonderful human being, and the only reason why i kept returning my baby to little darlings, was her.We started getting closer and become friends. She has opened up to me about her time.I DO NOT RECOMMEND little darlings.The stuff is extremely underpaid. They accept way more children and babies than what the government allows. If you go see the creche she will tell you there are only four babies in the nursery, meanwhile there are up to 8, sometimes even more. Keep in mind, only two teachers in the nursery. And one of them must make bottles and get them food at the back. So ONE teacher alone with 8 babies.The employees are really being treated very poorly. (Two of them are the principle’s daughter’s. They treated well of course)In December, she has paid R1000 to my friend, that worked 100% the whole month. She said she can’t afford more because the parents didn’t pay. But, during work hours, her and her kids go to gym classes and living their best lives. They don’t pay their staff, but live a fabulous life right in front of them. In front of people that have to struggle to meet months end.If you approach the principal about something you’re not happy with, as in security reasons, or nappy rash or what not, she will get very angry and rude towards you. She replies very unreasonable and immature.With the whole corona situation, i literally had to send her youtube links for her to understand the virus. She had no clue.My friend kept asking about UIF, and they kept blocking her off saying they cant sign her form because they are at home and don’t have a printer, or they just don’t know how, until they acutally blocked her number. IMAGINE. You work for someone, and while we are all going thru the most, your boss doesn’t help you, she BLOCKS you.Also, as a new mom, you trust a school principal to have some knowledge about health of a baby. So sometimes i have asked her “do you know what this bump could be” or “she has a fiver any idea what’s wrong?” She’d always say “Don’t worry, it’s just teething”. My baby actually had a tonsils infection when she told me “don’t worry it’s just teething.”Really, if you have any feeling of humans should be treated equal, do NOT give your child to little darlings.Employees are being treated extremely bad!

My daughter has been attending Little Darlings for about a year now, there have been times when I felt it important to communicate things to the teachers and principal, like concerns about a bump and bruise, or when she had a nappy rash and I bought a special cream for her. This was always met with understanding and reason. The teachers are clearly emotionally intelligent and treat my DD like she is family. Reading a post that accuses Little Darlings of malpractice and the reasons this is based on makes me think that this parent has a classic case of “helicopter mom”I have a few points of my own:1. Nappy rashes are a normal part of a toddlers life.2. Your child should be allowed to play outside with her shoes off. This contributes in a big way to her learning.3. Bruises and scratches are completely normal if your child is behaving like a normal toddler.4. Kids at day cares get sick, it’s actually good for them because it creates memory cells to fight off bugs as they get older.In closing I would like to thank Little Darlings for the contribution they have made to my daughters upbringing.

A good crèche