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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Daycare is not school - it is daycare.  Please stop calling it something that it is not.  Yes, our kids learn in daycare and have school-like activities but it is not school.

It just makes parents who send their kids to daycare look like they have something to justify or be ashamed of.  Our kids are in daycare - get over the shame.  [/quote]

I find this line of comments bizarre. I have no guilt about sending my child to daycare (for personal reasons we preferred it over a nanny), but I always refer to at as 'school' when I talk to my toddler daughter (i.e., it's time for school; we're at school; etc..). It's just easier to say. I call it daycare when talking to friends, 90% of the time. Not a big deal, and I think it's a reach to infer guilt from our choice of semantics.[/quote]

I'm PP after you, and I think this just goes along with most people assuming that, given a choice, all women would choose to SAH, and that working mothers must all feel guilty for putting their kids in daycare.  In my case, none of that is true.[/quote]

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