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[quote=Anonymous]14:13 pp here and just thought of a few things that helped me decide to make the switch next August for my now almost 2 year old, that may be helpful to you. May or may not apply to your in home.

Amount of materials and variety in materials. Our in home daycare has a wonderful set up, but it's small and mostly geared towards 0-2 or 3 max and as an in-home they just do not have the ability to be getting new materials or rotating new materials in constantly. I noticed visiting the more formal preschool programs that will probably be better and more age appropriate (some of the materials at the in home are more for infants since there is a range)

Field trips. Our in-home has a huge backyard with lots of things and lots of outdoor time/unstructured play, but just due to ratios and their location they don't leave the house to explore much. Many of the preschool programs go on walks, field trips to explore different things, etc. which I liked since my son is there all day - as he gets older I'd like him out and about in the world more (of course he does that with me, but I just saw that as a benefit)

And finally as you said, the kids older than my son moved on to preschool last month, so he is now the oldest and while i like the mixed ages at the in-home, I don't think being the oldest for another year with much younger babies will be as good for social emotional development for him (learning how to navigate those peer relationships)

One thing for consideration - when I posted this on dcum around the time you are, a preschool director and a couple other folks commented recommending that I potty train before making the transition. We recently did that following the oh crap method at 23 months (much earlier than I expected but he was showing interest and meeting all the signs per oh crap), and I have felt so grateful we are at the home daycare for that process! Only having two caregivers that he is with all day has made it much easier for him to let them know he has to go to the bathroom, more so than what I've heard from friends in centers. So if you feel like oh crap might be an approach you'd consider and your child shows signs, you could consider doing it this summer. Anyway, just passing along. My son took to it better than I could have imagined so I kind of buy into the oh crap approach of earlier now. [/quote]

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