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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents who call anything before kindergarten "school."

If your child is under the age of 5, he is not going to school. He is going to preschool, or daycare or moms' day out. Stop trying to justify it by calling it school - drop him off, let him have fun and socialize and do what you've got to/want to do. It's ok. Really. [/quote]

Kids think of it as school and know that word.

Get a job. You're so pathetic and transparent.[/quote]

I'm the OP of that comment and I seem to have touched a nerve. Here's the irony: I've always worked full time. My kids went to daycare. They thought of it as that and knew that word. When they started kindergarten they went to school.

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Ok, so did you feel like you needed to "justify" sending them to daycare?  Probably not.  If you did, stop projecting on the rest of us.  It's just a word.  I can't believe anyone would care enough for it to bother them.[/quote]

No, it bother me too.  I [b]sacrifice [/b]to have a nanny for my son and pay a proper preschool tuition for three hours every morning.  Daycare is NOT SCHOOL.  It is daycare.  [/quote]

talk about projecting.  that's on you, dude.  i don't need to sacrifice because my kid, who's reading quite well going into kindergarten, went to plain old daycare.  but sometimes i call it school.  because it DOESN'T MATTER.[/quote]

If it DOESN'T MATTER then call it college or the circus. [b] You called it "school" because you were trying to make it sound better than daycare.  Admit it.  [/b][/quote]

I call it "school" because that's what my three-year-old calls it.  All the people I am even talking to her "school" about are already well aware that she's in daycare, and I don't make a secret of where she's at.  I'm not trying to fool anyone or make myself feel better.  I like where she's at, she likes where she's at, and if she wants to call it school, I just can't be bothered to correct her.

Also, she likes her daycare and likes going there, and if we can associate those positive feelings with "school," I'm all for it.  I want her to be excited to go to school.  [/quote]

Your child id in daycare and she should know that she is in daycare.  Her experiences at school will be very different.  You are actually accomplishing the opposite of what you want.

I had two kids in daycare and ran into this same issue when the older started real school.  [/quote]

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