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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread explains so much. I had the most confusing conversation with someone a while back where I mentioned my kid was in preschool but then went on to say I needed to find childcare as I was returning to work. The mom kept saying she managed to work full time and just use preschool and was saying things like “you just have to manage your time wisely”. It was a short convo so I just nodded by head and smiled but was so confused as to how she was working F/T with 10 hours of daycare as childcare. She must have thought by preschool I was referring to full time childcare.

Anyway, I can’t believe this is a controversial topic, I personally call my kids center daycare to others but school to the kids. It’s a daycare with preschool/educational programming for the 3+ crowd. 
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This thread brought me some clarity on a weird situation too. It has been a while but I remember an in law cousin asking about what the kids do (I sahm so you know everyone wants accounting of your hours) and I said they were going to preschool and she said "you mean daycare" and I was like ugh, I guess some people are just insufferable and don't think preschool counts as real school. It was part of the name and 9-1. There was only a few sahms but mostly work at home parents, nannies or grandparents at pick up. She wondered what I did with all that free time and I chalked that up to resentment. Now I think there was more nuance than my assuming she didn't know about the benefits of preschool. 
Despite hours, it makes sense to call daycare preschool after a certain age. If a daycare isn't teaching age appropriate things like manners, shapes, ABCs, numbers... I doubt they would stay in business and it makes sense for the kids to call it preschool to differentiate learning expectations and give them a sense of leveling up as a step towards school. I never once had anyone in town dispute or debate the labeling of daycare or preschool so I think it may be a contention in very different circles and I just happened to come across one of them at a family event.
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Pp. I think you are right about this being a point of contention for a fairly small group. When I was a sahm I really had no idea about the specifics around various childcare options and, now that I work, I just call my childcare daycare out of habit and never put much thought into it. I find most of my friends talk about school and daycare interchangeably and I can’t imagine anyone, sahm or working, feeling strongly about this to the point that they are correcting other people. [/quote]

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