Meals I cook here
Breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack are included in the fee. Meatloaf, pulled pork, chicken pie, homemade chicken soup, homemade pizza.
I love to cook, and they eat well.
Open weekdays, 7:30 am to 4:00 pm
A licensed family child care home on a quiet dead-end street in East Manchester. Licensed for nine: six children through the day, plus three who are in school full time. Ages six weeks to twelve years.
Hour by hour
Parents ask what the day looks like, so here it is. The times bend around the kids. If someone needs one more chapter before nap, they get one.
Hours are 7:30 am to 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday. Closed weekends and holidays. Current holidays and vacation dates are shared with families through a Google Calendar you can add to your own.
What’s offered
A family child care home is a licensed category of its own: an early-education program that runs in a house, with six children in it. Why families choose it over a center.
Breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack are included in the fee. Meatloaf, pulled pork, chicken pie, homemade chicken soup, homemade pizza.
I love to cook, and they eat well.
Colors, shapes, songs, the alphabet, counting. Sharing, apologizing, saying please.
The yard, the rail trail, the pool in summer. They come home tired.
Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Christmas presents go home with them. Every birthday gets celebrated.
Six children during the day is the state maximum for one provider. My license covers three more who are in school full time, and those three come after school, on snow days and through the school vacations. Most of them are brothers and sisters, or children who were here years ago and still come back.
Six is the number that matters. It is why I know every one of them.
Included, at no extra charge
About Lisa
My name is Lisa Doyon and I have been a family child care provider for more than thirty years. I could not see myself doing anything else.
I have been married to my husband Tom for thirty-five years. He is the bookkeeper, the grocery-store runner, the IT guy and Mr. Fix It. He is also my back-up on the rare day I cannot be here, and he is fingerprinted, background checked, first aid and CPR trained, and takes the training the State requires. Two sons, three grandsons and two dogs.
Licensed and inspected
Testimonials from my families
I highly recommend Lisa’s Family Daycare. Our son started going to Lisa when he was three months old. Now at 9 months, we could not be happier with our choice. The way our son smiles and reaches for Lisa when he sees her says it all.
She clearly puts a lot of love and attention into making a warm, safe, clean and fun environment. We are grateful every day that our little one is taken care of by “Auntie” Lisa.
My son started at Lisa’s daycare when he was 1. It was the best decision we ever made! She treated him like he was her own son. He learned so many things under her care — field trips, gym classes, and music classes.
She helped shape him into the fine young 17-year-old man he is today. I hope she is still working when I have grandchildren.
Best caregiver you could ever ask for. Lisa was practically my second mother. Now being 22 years old and still having contact with her shows how loving and caring of a person she is.
I will always look back at my daycare days with Lisa and smile — they were some of the best and brightest days of my childhood. There is no doubt in my mind that when I have children they will also be in her care.
Come and see it
Tell me a little about your family and I will come back to you. I am with the children until 4:00, so I usually reply in the evening.
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