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WonderKids Celebrates 30 Years of ‘Home-Like Environment’ Child Care

[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] From left, Cindy Gibbons, Sen. Michael J. McCaffrey (D-Dist. 29), Joe Pariseault, Mary Lou Reynolds, Mayor Scott Avedisian,and Michael Reynolds cut the ribbon celebrating 30 years of Wonderkids in business.
[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] From left, Cindy Gibbons, Sen. Michael J. McCaffrey (D-Dist. 29), Joe Pariseault, Mary Lou Reynolds, Mayor Scott Avedisian,and Michael Reynolds cut the ribbon celebrating 30 years of Wonderkids in business.
[CREDIT: Rob Borkowsi] Mayor Scott Avedisian and Mary Lou Reynolds talk inside Wonderkids daycare center Monday.
[CREDIT: Rob Borkowsi] Mayor Scott Avedisian and Mary Lou Reynolds talk inside Wonderkids daycare center Monday.
WARWICK, RI — Thirty years ago, Mary Lou Reynolds left a career in finance to provide quality child care to Warwick parents, and commissioned the Wonderkids Early Learning Center building on Alhambra Road to house her new venture, a shift she’s perpetually thrilled about.

“It just keeps getting, actually, better and better every year,” Reynolds said Monday as she and the teachers at her center, built for the day care of children six weeks to five-years-old, prepared for a ribbon cutting with Mayor Scott Avedisian and Sen. Michael J. McCaffrey (D-Dist. 29, Warwick) celebrating the center’s third decade of service to the city.

“She started babysitting, babysitting me,” McCaffrey said before he and Avedisian each got a tour of the building, which features two infant rooms, two pre-school rooms and two toddler rooms, the children in question taking an afternoon nap to the soothing sounds of recorded ocean waves and soft lullabies.

The facility’s classrooms feature unique and individual characteristics for each of their day programs.

Every classroom is equipped with the age-appropriate elements necessary to successfully reinforce teachers’ skills. They provide a consistent environment so every child can enjoy his/her own individual program without any interference from other classrooms, and ensure each specific program’s goals and objectives are met.

The philosophy provides faculty and staff the ability to monitor each individual child’s development, and creates the accountability necessary to inform and discuss each child’s goals and objectives with their families, and ensure that any changes and/or adjustments for each individual child are met.

“Our goal has always been to give parents comfort in knowing that they have chosen the best possible home-like environment for their child to learn, grow and develop with great success both academically and socially,” Reynolds wrote on the center’s introduction on their website.

Joe said he helped build the facility with their father, Bud, with the family’s construction company, Pariseault Builders, in Wawrick. Their father has since passed on, Joe said, but the company continues the tradition Bud founded in 1946.

WonderKids is open Monday through Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Free tours are available by calling 401-714-4945.

[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Sen. Michael J. McCaffrey (D-Dist. 29), Mary Lou Reynolds, and Ashley Ogrodowicz, three year old teacher, talk inside Wonderkids daycare.
[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Sen. Michael J. McCaffrey (D-Dist. 29), Mary Lou Reynolds, and Ashley Ogrodowicz, three year old teacher, talk inside Wonderkids daycare.
Rob Borkowski
Author: Rob Borkowski

Rob has worked as reporter and editor for several publications, including The Kent County Daily Times and Coventry Courier, before working for Gatehouse in MA then moving home with Patch Media. Now he's publisher and editor of WarwickPost.com. Contact him at [email protected] with tips, press releases, advertising inquiries, and concerns.

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