Yes ~ my advice is to google 'wee watch reviews' and see what comes up ~ I have heard more horror stories both from the parent perspective as well as from providers who had mad the mistake to work for them.

Wee Watch is a privately owned franchise ~ so the rules for everyone, in addition to the 'DNA', include a bunch of other things that have to be 'exactly the same' for every one ... so it is like signing up to have your child in the McDonalds of daycare ... every one is suppose to offer clients the exact same 'menu' so to speak there is no individuality in them. So yes as mentioned they expect you to follow their curriculum to a T from the craft you do to the science experiment and so forth each day .... which is fine if you have no imagination of your own and no personal philosophy for how children learn and develop ... I personally could not follow it is it is VERY DATED and no longer considered best practice in the field to have such rigid 'academic style' approach to the early years as this is not how wee children master becoming life long learners.

In addition ... they adhere to the MINIMUM standards for everything ... I also know this for a fact because when I chose to go with an agency starting out I considered them ~ they were 'fine' with my tiny basement windows that I myself could not fit out of as well as most preschool children today who are round around the middle would not be able to get out of in a fire .... every other agency I talked to would have required me to have larger window installed and actually sent out the fire department to 'follow up' that the space and my evacuation plan was too code which is what is SUPPOSE to happen. I later met a peer who worked for them in an administrative roll and she had a horrible experience and confirmed what I had experienced ~ their employees who 'regulate' the providers are being told not to 'check to closely' for things in inspection she was given exactly 30 minutes at each house she inspected that was NEW so that is an extensive interview that is supposed to occur plus the checking that the house meets DNA requirements and than only 10 minutes for each monthly inspection after ~ so there were homes that were 'contracted' but the provider had the daycare space in the basement with windows that did not open because they were instructed to not 'check' as long as it had windows it did not matter what size or if they even opened ~ which is illegal ~ every space being used for business purposes has to have two viable fire exits from it for both children and adults to escape through ... most adults are not fitting through a little tiny window that most older style basements have!

Also not sure how they compare in other cities but the one in my city charges clients the MOST for the care but pays the providers doing the work the LEAST in order to have profit for franchise share holders who are not working directly in the business because they have to hire RECE to do the work for them, they had little professional development and other resources such as toy lending and equipment and so forth.

Personally I would search to see what other options there are ~ most regions have more than 1 agency model and one should be a 'not for profit' one which might pay their providers better and have better resources and so forth.