Ali Kadija Family Daycare

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Ali Kadija Family Daycare in College Area, San Diego, operates a home-based childcare program at 3753 Boren Street in the 92115 ZIP, serving young children through a project-based and developmental play-based curriculum built around social, emotional, and behavioral skill development. The facility features dedicated learning zones including a backyard play area, a nap room, an art area, and a reading area, with a gated entrance and driveway parking designed for safe drop-off and pick-up routines. Ali Kadija brings more than 15 years of childcare experience to the program and holds current First Aid and CPR certifications, maintaining the emergency-response readiness that California Community Care Licensing requires of family daycare providers. Families in the 92115 ZIP who need full-time, part-time, or drop-in care have a neighborhood option steps from local schools, and the home-based format offers a smaller group setting than larger center-based programs in the area, including Healthy Toddlers Care in College Area. The developmental play-based approach emphasizes hands-on activities — block building, art projects, sensory bins, and guided outdoor play — that build fine motor skills, language development, and early numeracy alongside social interaction. Enrollment operates on a limited-capacity model inherent to California's family daycare licensing structure, which caps attendance to maintain a low child-to-caregiver ratio throughout the day. The program accepts children on full-time, part-time, single-day, and drop-in schedules, giving families flexibility that rigid enrollment windows at center-based programs often do not accommodate. As children in the program reach preschool and kindergarten age, many families transition them into structured enrichment, and the College Area corridor includes youth discipline programs such as Dynasty Martial Arts for that next stage. The art area is stocked with rotating craft supplies and age-appropriate materials that support the project-based curriculum's emphasis on creative problem-solving and sequential task completion in children under five.