S/O Daycare is NOT SCHOOL

[Anonymous]

I am a parent whose child went to daycare at the university where I was completing my degree. It was an amazing daycare center probably better than most preschools - but it wasn't preschool. It was daycare.

I am not ashamed or feel the need to justify my choice to send my child to daycare rather than continue to stay home with her (I did for her first year) or hire a full time nanny. But it was daycare. She was 12 months old when she started and she was in daycare, not school.

I get tired of this argument. We are lying when we call daycare "school" and it makes it seem like we are trying to make it seem better than it is. Daycare cares for my child primarily and teaches secondarily. School teaches my child primarily and cares secondarily.

Now DD actually is in an all day preschool from 9 to 3. Not a daycare.

[Anonymous]

Jesus, lady. Get a grip. You need more things to worry about if this is what revs your motor. Wow.

[Anonymous]

Um....okaaaay.....[backing away slowly]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jesus, lady. Get a grip. You need more things to worry about if this is what revs your motor. Wow.

+1

LOL

[Anonymous]

Mothers do call daycare "school" to make themselves feel better about leaving their child for the day. Yes, I am sure the child learns in daycare but that is not the reason daycares exist. Daycares exist to care for babies, toddlers and preschoolers when the parents are away/working.

[Anonymous]

I agree 100%, OP. I hate it when parents call daycare "school" and posted about it on the other thread as my pet peeve.

[Anonymous]

Oh calm down. I call it "school" because my DD3 insists on being just like her older cousin. Emmie goes to school, and therefore my DD also goes to school. That is what big girls do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh calm down. I call it "school" because my DD3 insists on being just like her older cousin. Emmie goes to school, and therefore my DD also goes to school. That is what big girls do.

Your DD goes to daycare. Why lie to her?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a parent whose child went to daycare at the university where I was completing my degree. It was an amazing daycare center probably better than most preschools - but it wasn't preschool. It was daycare.

I am not ashamed or feel the need to justify my choice to send my child to daycare rather than continue to stay home with her (I did for her first year) or hire a full time nanny. But it was daycare. She was 12 months old when she started and she was in daycare, not school.

I get tired of this argument. We are lying when we call daycare "school" and it makes it seem like we are trying to make it seem better than it is. Daycare cares for my child primarily and teaches secondarily. School teaches my child primarily and cares secondarily.

Now DD actually is in an all day preschool from 9 to 3. Not a daycare.

I agree wholeheartedly with you.

Not only does it bug me when parents do this, but it makes me kind of sad. Don't be so eager to speed up the timeline. Let them be babies in daycare. Soon enough they will be children in school and young adults in college. Don't wish it away.

[Anonymous]

Who cares?

[Anonymous]

I think when you have a 3 or 4 year old in "daycare" bending this definition is hardly a crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think when you have a 3 or 4 year old in "daycare" bending this definition is hardly a crime.

It just is not accurate or a strong endorsement of daycare. My kids are in daycare. Yes, they learn so much there but I am not going to pretend that it is something it isn't either.

Being ashamed of calling it daycare does nothing to help the cause of daycare!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares?

People who believe in the importance of daycare and are not ashamed of having their children in daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh calm down. I call it "school" because my DD3 insists on being just like her older cousin. Emmie goes to school, and therefore my DD also goes to school. That is what big girls do.

Your DD goes to daycare. Why lie to her?

Because I think it's adorable that she wants to be like her cousin. She claims to be in 2nd grade, it's very cute.

[Anonymous]

OMG people get ahold of yourselves. No one thinks that a 9 month old is at a real school when the parent says "school." It's like a cute little way of referring to where the kid is, almost a little silly/sarcastic. GET A GRIP.