PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN TO BUILDING BLOCKS PRESCHOOL, INC! My initial impression was that the center, although small and unprogressive, would be a good nurturing environment. I felt comfortable with the staff members but the owner/director was very abrasive and unfriendly to both children and parents. I even witnessed a couple of instances were she was verbally abusive to her staff. She is a bully and targets certain children for excessive time-outs and isolation. I started to notice that my children, who always loved to go to "school", would become anxious and upset when it was drop off time. Around that same time the assistant director left abruptly and the center became noticeably under-staffed. The final straw came when she insisted that I get my TWO-YEAR-OLD tested for ADD or find another center. I was shocked to find that someone who touts more than a decade of experience in early childhood education was unable to distinguish the “terrible two’s” from a clinical diagnosis that usually is not detected until age five. When my husband, who holds a Master’s in Counseling and has served as an elementary school counselor, called to discuss the matter Ms. Susie hung up on him. Needless to say this woman is unprofessional and tries to use children’s behavior as a scapegoat for her short comings as a child care provider.

Hi, I am Susie Nixon the owner/director of Building Blocks Preschool and I would like to respond to this parent's untrue report. The only part of this report that is true is that this parent did have two boys at my center and I did tell her that she had to take them somewhere else. They had only been at my center for two months. She failed to include the fact that I had countless conferences with her and her husband about their children's violent behavior. These parents had absolutely no control over their children. I am a certified elementary teacher and have been a preschool director for almost twenty years. If parents don't do their job as parents I can't do my job as a teacher. I released them from my center because I could not get the parents to help me with the negative behaviors. It was the best decision for the other students in my care. Her husband might have a master's degree in something but, it's not in parenting.