Seiai Preschool is not a preschool, It’s a daycare

Seiai daycare is located at:  25506  Narbonne Ave. Lomita, CA 90717

Pros and Cons about this daycare.

Pros:

The daycare has a fairly safe environment with decent security.

They only speak Japanese there so your child will have total immersion in Japanese. The teachers can barely speak English so if you don’t speak Japanese you are going to have a lot of problems.

The kids are nice and polite there.

They will not sunburn your kid from leaving him or her out in the sun for hours and hours. Most of the activities are indoors.

Cons:

There are many cons.   The so called teachers are not teachers, they are day care attendants. The main attendant “Ako Sensei” is an old lady that never figured out what makes kids tick.  She has little to no understanding of kids or child psychology.   Her biggest fault is.  She does not listen to the kids.  She is from the old world. Kids should be seen and not heard.  This is why kids rebel in Japan.  Teachers and adults don’t listen to kids, the kids withdraw from society and go into their own little world.

One very bad point is. They will talk about your child in front of the the other parents. They are very unprofessional in this area.  All the mothers there talk about all the others kids.   Just about every mother there is a housewife with nothing to do all day long.  They just want to dump their child there so they can go shopping and have fun with their friends during the day.

They believe in corporal punishment at this daycare. I surprised they have not had any formal complaints or been shut down due to this.  They will slap your child’s arm or the backs of their hands if they misbehave.

It is a little bit expensive when you include the hidden costs. The base rate of the daycare is reasonable, but they will ask you to have your child join these special programs, music, dance, memory class. Each one is well over one hundred dollars each.  Most likely your child will want to do it and you will be stuck saying yes or no.

No daycare is perfect.  If you want your child to learn Japanese or to be in a Japanese environment while living here in the States, it’s a pretty good daycare.