Nurturing Young Minds
Children are unique. They have individual, personalities, interests, learning styles, and care needs. Our teachers and caregivers are passionate about the care and safety of your child. They take pride in providing a rich, high quality childcare experience, and strive daily to offer encouragement, direction, support, and guidance during these developmental years.
Jump Start Your Child's Learning
Our Philosophy
At Milk and Honey Preschool, we understand children are gifts from our Creator. Our role is to serve and support families in meeting their goals of training and teaching their children, nurturing their social, emotional, and cognitive development, and preparing them to be loving members of the community. We firmly believe in the formation of solid, trusting relationships with children, parents, and the rest of their families. At Milk and Honey, your family comes first – we’re here to help.
WHO WE ARE
Family owned and operated since 1984, Milk and Honey Preschool opened in a home on Waller Avenue located near the University of Kentucky’s campus. Initially caring for only 10 children, ranging from infant to Pre-K, we served several of UK’s students and faculty. Less than two years later, as the early-child-education field continued to grow and become more mainstream, demand for care was increasing. As this demand grew so did our enrollment.
Increased enrollment called for more space, and in 1986, we relocated to a larger facility on East Maxwell Street. This new location delivered new benefits, such as more classrooms, more outside play space, and a paved path for bike-day. Woodland park/pool was within walking distance, and provided wonderful opportunities for class “field-trips” just up the street.
In time, we were serving around twenty families, and caring for over 40 children. After many successful years downtown, we began to look for a newer facility, and in 1995 were blessed to have all of the families enrolled move with us to our current location on Old Todds Road.
Again, a new facility offered numerous advantages, more and larger rooms, a vast outdoor space, upon which we built a new playground, and expanded enrollment availability. We worked hard informing the surrounding neighborhoods of our services with fliers and brochures, and the families which moved with us from downtown told their friends. Within a few months we had reached our licensed capacity of 60 children – including a before/after-school care program.
By 2013, many of our teachers had been with us for several years, the classrooms were full, as was the wait-list, and we received calls every week from local families interested in enrolling – expansion seemed like the best option to serve the needs of our families and of the community. In 2014, we purchased the building we were renting, began remodeling and in December of that year, opened six new classrooms. Late in 2019, construction began on a large addition providing a new school-age classroom and covered picnic area. This new space opened in August 2020 and is everything we had hoped for.
We are now licensed to care for 200 children, and serve over 100 families. Many of our newer teachers have been with us since the 2014 expansion. Our playground has been (and is continuing to be) updated. The Fall Festival is accompanied by our annual Easter-egg hunt, Independence Day Parade, Pre-K “graduation” ceremony, and a Christmas program. After more than thirty-five years of caring for children, our chief priority is to serve our families.
WHAT WE DO
Our role is to serve and support families in meeting their goals of training and teaching their children, nurturing their social, emotional, and cognitive development, and preparing them to be loving members of the community. We firmly believe in the formation of solid, trusting relationships with children, parents, and the rest of their families. At Milk and Honey, your family comes first – we’re here to help.
Experienced Staff Members
While your child is in our care, they benefit from close supervision provided by an experienced, teaching staff. The teachers at Milk and Honey take their responsibility of caring for your child very seriously. Each day they focus their energy on meeting your child's needs for health and safety, monitoring development, fostering learning, and promoting activity. Most of our teachers have years of experience in the Early Childhood Education field, and several have been with us for nearly a decade or more. Our teachers honor and value your role as parents. Many of them are parents themselves, and recognize the support they provide in meeting your family's goals for growth, safety, behavior, socialization, development, nutrition, play, and learning.
