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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because they need to be College and Career ready in elementary school.  The pressure is intense and it trickles down to even the youngest children.  It is insane.  I feel badly for today's kids.  [/quote]

Yes, if you go to one of these morning preschools, the kids are being drilled on the alphabet and made to run laps around the building!!

Uh, they're really not.  My kids have gone to three different part-time preschools (which is what the OP is talking about) in the area and[b] they've all been play-based and about as low key as you can imagine.  Some circle time, some snack, just a few hours a week in the early years to start learning how to manage in a group setting. [/b] Some people are looking for a place to send their kids so there's a market for it.  I think that's about it.[/quote]

Daycare, you just defined daycare.  I send my kid to daycare and think it's great for her, but let's be clear that this is really about the label you want to put on your childcare and the connotations that go along with said label, not any difference in the childcare itself.  [/quote]

Same poster.  I don't particularly care what it's called.  The OP is talking about and asking about partial day childcare, which is typically called preschool by the places that offer this service.  For me, it wasn't about daycare v preschool in the least.  I had a nanny and wanted my kid to go somewhere for some portion of some days and in that situation, it's called preschool by most people.[/quote]

Sure, I responded directly to you, but was actually responding more to the original PP and others who were talking about the earlier and earlier academic pressure on kids.  I think parents who are looking for a group childcare situation that gives your kid some structure and socialization totally agree that it doesn't matter what you call it.  However, some parents on this thread are actually thinking that their kid is getting ahead by learning school readiness at 20 months.  And they think that they need to send their kid somewhere that calls itself "preschool" not childcare or daycare to learn school readiness.  Whatever, it just seems silly to me when I hear parents at MY childcare center calling it preschool just because they think it sounds better.[/quote]

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