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Your Guide
to Finding
THE BEST
Child Care
Saftey in Child
Care Check List:
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Child Without This!
3 Simple Steps to
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about Your
Child Care
Choice

Mary Wardlaw
Mary Wardlaw, Founder
Mary’s Vision For Children
Loving children has always been at the heart of Mary’s vision for The Children’s Center.
But, loving them is only part of the vision. HOW love is demonstrated at The Children’s
210 Main St., Niles, Michigan 49120 Center is what completes the vision. There are 5 key ways you’ll feel the love once you
engage with Mary and her staff who are commiUed to being THE BEST for you.

Find Mary at: 1. Genuine RelaAonships: We wrap our arms around families so they feel secure in
our care.
www.NilesKids.com 2. ThoughQully Prepared Environment: Children are drawn into new and exciIng
learning experiences every day.
3. Professional Staff: Just take one look at our staff and you’ll see something different

in their appearance and interacIons with you as they follow the planned curriculum
with a strong sense of fidelity.
4. Strong Program Management and Support
5. EffecAve CommunicaAon with parents: Our parents know and FEEL how happy we
are to see them!
From The Desk of Mary Wardlaw…
It’s been my joy wrapping my arms around families for the past 24 years that I’ve been in
the early childhood field, 12 of which I’ve owned my own center. At Imes it’s hard to
believe that I started The Children's Center in 2004 with 17 children and 3 staff members
and today we have over 100 students and 20 amazing people on our teaching team.

One thing I know for sure is that once you step foot into my child care program you won’t
want to go anywhere else. You’ll feel the heart, the warmth and the genuine caring that
flows so easily from my staff. We take great pride in creaIng an environment where
parents stay connected with their children and our staff throughout the day.
Mary can be reached at:
1.269.683.0405 My child care program is my passion and in addiIon to teaching preschool, direcIng a
program and owning a child care center, I have also taught a college course in early
childhood curriculum and have wriUen several e-­‐books; two of the books, "Leadership in
Early Childhood" and "Preschool Curriculum — Theme-­‐Based Learning Centers," are sold
Mary’s Clients RAVE! on Amazon.com.

. “It's one of the best choices I've Where my journey started…
The seed was planted early! My parents were both teachers, and long before I
made for my son's educaAon recognized it a seed was planted that eventually would grow into what The Children's

and well-­‐being! My favorite life Center is today.
lesson that the staff provide for The seed started to take root when my first child was 18 months old. My husband, Jay,

my son is making ‘smart and I needed to find child care and enrolled our daughter in a program near our home.
choices.’” On her first day, I went to pick her up and she was si_ng outside of the program
~Nikki D. director's office on a bench crying. The program director was talking to someone on the
Parent phone, not even looking our direcIon. When I saw my liUle girl's puffy eyes, tears
streaming down her face, it broke my heart. We walked out of that center and that's
when the seed took root. I wanted to fix it. Not just for my liUle girl and me, but for other
“Impressive child care! We love moms and dads who needed a safe and nurturing place for their children. My underlying
The Children's Center! The Pre-­‐ vision was to create a place with not only a strong educaIonal foundaIon, but also a
K program is unbelievable. The place where children could laugh and play and be comforted when they were sad. A place
staff are always so pleasant and where children felt loved. I am blessed that Jay and I have been married for 25 years now
upbeat; they create a really and have 4 children and 1 grandchild.
posiIve environment for the I am passionate about helping parents find quality child care that works best for their
kids! The curriculum is very needs and values. I hope you’ll stop in or call and say hello! I am also available to speak at
carefully considered and varies events where my experIse (a BA in Child Development and the degree of Master of Business
week to week.” AdministraIon plus 24 years of experience) would be beneficial in educaIng parIcipants on
selecIng quality child care as well as the top mistakes parents make when selecIng child
Mom
~Stacey E. care for their children. Companies also find tremendous value in partnering with me to
help reduce employee callouts due to lack of quality child care.
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