When we first enrolled our son in daycare, there was a centre around the corner from us that looked so bright, happy, cheerful. When we put him on the wait list, we lucked out, as they opened a brand new centre next door, and he got in there. He was officially a “Kool Kids” kid. To be honest, it bugged me that they spelled “kool” with the K. When we decided to move to a different suburb, we kept driving up there because it was familiar for Nick and I wasn’t terribly confident in switching him to a new daycare and having to go through all the adjustment of it again. For his sake AND mine! Thankfully we finally moved him, albeit after 10 months! Now, he was a “Smarter Kids” kid.
I have to admit, my son did seem to get Smarter once he started at Smarter Kids, but that could have been somewhat coincidental with his age. The kids are obviously not old enough to really understand or care about what the name of their school is, but I wondered what the respective owners were thinking when naming their centers. What’s more, did parents make any decisions based on the name, or was I the only one totally over-thinking this whole thing?
I was more … tickled ? … that at the tender age of 3, he had gone from being a kool kid to a smart one. Hopefully, a smart one who would never spell cool with a “k”.
Does your kids day care centre name make you smirk? Giggle? Cringe?
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Colours of Sunset 
I hate poor spelling, so things like this grate on me 🙂 Fortunately my son’s daycare is Subicare, so no issues there 🙂
Yep, poor spelling, and letters backwards, like in Toys R Us, where the R is back to front!
K’s kindy was called Rainbowland so that was OK. I hate bad spelling no matter where it is. There is some advert at the moment that says “2 kool 4 skool” (I think or something really close to that) and it drives me nuts every time I see it. Our children are bad enough spellers due to texting and spell check – don’t keep flashing the wrong spelling in your advert !!!!!
Have a great day and can’t wait to hear how N goes at school !! I just now he is going to be one of the smart kids there !!!!
Me
Yeah I’ve seen the 2 kool 4 skool thing too and it does bother me too!
My girl’s preschool is “Little Skoolhouse” and when they first started it caused quite a riot with parents for the spelling but I think they explained that they wanted school to be fun and creative.
Anyway I like the spaciousness, teachers and overall environment in her preschool so the naming doesn’t really matter to me :p as long as she understands that school is really not spelt that way! Haha
Ai @ Sakura Haruka
that is the main thing, Ai. As long as you like the center and the carers it doesn’t *really* matter what the name is!
I actually can’t remember the name of our daycare centre. Clearly the name was of little concern to me then. Mine was all about location, location, location (ie right next door to my office building so I could visit and breast feed etc).
Leanne @ Deep Fried Fruit
Yeah, I didn’t really pay much attention to the name when enrolling him at either place. It was only when I mentioned to someone that he used to go to Kool Kids but now went to Smarter Kids that I went “hmmm, he’s gone from being “cool” to “smart”!”
Ah, daycare and preschool, my youngest, the twins have been in school for a year so it’s all seeming long ago. I don’t like the deliberate misspeling I must say, must be too old fashioned.
Joyful to report that my kids did go to some good preschools and day cares and often when I am feeling as if I am a shocking parent, I soothe myself by thinking that at least they’ve had a decent education – well, still ongoing!
well that IS the main thing – that they are looked after, cared for and get a good education!
For a while, AJ went to day care at Pelican Childcare and I never could understand why Pelican’s had anything to do with childcare – as long as bub’s ok I guess it doesn’t matter what the name is – does it?
Nope, sure doesn’t matter. I’m not sure what Pelicans have to do with child care either. Maybe they’re supposed to be cute? Or resemble a stork? Ha ha!
Spelling is a lost art in the SMS world. Teens are so busy “speaking” on their phones via shorthand and relying on spell check that they don’t even realise how bad it is. Drives me nuts too! We are just venturing into childcare in the next month. No weird names – I just have everything crossed that he will have a good time.
Fingers crossed for you here, too! I’m sure will have a great time! They do so much fun stuff at daycare that I never did at home with him!
Yep, the spelling thing irks me too. I’d rather a “smarter kid”. Our daycare is Kids Cottage, and I’m pretty sure they don’t do the apostrophe right. We also get some pretty bad spelling and grammar in the school newsletters, but it is such a convenient location with lovely caring teachers – I can overlook the rest.
We had our son enrolled for a primary school – a private one – and got the enrolment package and it was FULL of spelling/grammar errors. Long story short, he’s no longer going to that school! He’s going to the public one which actually has a better reputation!
I’m not a fan of the “kool” spelling, but to each their own. We have a mobile preschool out here (my kids don’t go to it), but it’s called Tharawonga. Half the kids can’t even pronounce it! No prizes there either lol.
Tharawonga! Ha ha, can just imagine the kids trying to say that – cute! What does it mean? It sounds aboriginal?
I assume aboriginal too, but have no clue what it means. I’ll ask one day if I remember 🙂
It’s weird, why did they spell it with a “K”… I love good spelling too. Our language is important and it’s important to protect it by good spelling and good grammar.
I think it is in an educational setting! I can understand if a play center is called “kool kids” or something…but a daycare/kindy? Hmmm….
I don’t think the centres here have names like that. Most of them are just named after the suburb.
Smarter is definitely so much cooler than Kool 😉
makes sense to me – whatever happened to trusty old “{suburb} early learning center”??!?
Those names are pretty terrible. I wonder what they were thinking? I love the new design by the way. I used the same template for my blog 🙂 x
I am not sure what they were thinking to be honest! And thank you! 🙂
Mia has just started daycare and thankfully it has the totally generic name of Headstart Early Learning Centre!
Well that sounds like a good name to me! Everyone wants their kids to get a good head start! 🙂
My kids have never attended a childcare that wasn’t named after the suburb it was in so we are very boring here. But I did used to laugh at a centre I used to pass on my way to work called Jumping Jacks – I always wondered if they served red cordial to the kids to get them to jump around!!!
hahaha. That or they’re really more like a boot camp, making them do “jumping jacks” or star jumps all afternoon!
Our Preschool in Broken Hill was Happy Day. Perfect!
Kool for a daycare centre is so not cool it’s not even funny!
Oh Happy Day is a good one! No, I didn’t think it was very “kool” at all!
LOL! Most of the daycare centre names over here are pretty boring. Just the name of the carer and then “Daycare centre.”
I’d definitely much prefer a smarter kid too! 🙂
Well boring beats having to decide at just 2.5 years old whether you are Kool or Smarter! 😉 he he! Thank goodness the kids aren’t old enough to “get it” yet!
I really love the name of ours Bright Horizons it seems very upbeat, optimistic and positive. Although what’s in a name…. a rose by any other blah blah blah!!! I reckon Nick is both cool and smart 🙂
oh that is a good name! great name! and thanks, I think he’s pretty cool and smart, too! 😉
You know I would have really struggled with the Kool Kid one. Even just writing it now got my goat! Honestly some people really make me wonder. I can’t help but wonder if the Smarter one was as a result of the stupid Kool
ha ha! well I’m not sure what came first, the kool or the smart! but yes, very annoying I think!
I’m with you on this one. I HATE seeing this sort of spelling accepted as normal. As a teacher, I am seeing students use text messaging spelling in exams. Argh!
Noooooo! I guess I know that happens but if I choose to ignore it I can pretend it doesn’t! I seriously worry for the future of the planet!
None of the daycares in our area have unusual names, so this issue has never come up. However, I’ve been alarmed before by the blatant spelling and grammatical errors in e-mails from the site director. She has a post-secondary education…how can she not know the difference between its and it’s?