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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It might be unusual in the circles that Liz Bruenig travels in in DC, but I don't know that the uncommonness means there's a "stigma." I'm mostly around other mid-30's parents but I've never heard them conspiratorially whisper about the handful at the playground who are younger.

And no one should obsess over it, anyways. By the time you have kids--whatever age you are when you have them--you should at least be mature enough to stop giving a crap what other people think. I wasn't ready at 25, I was at 35. If Liz B was ready at 25, why should she care that my life played out differently? Or vice versa? My mom had me at 23, my sister had her first kid at 22, and the average age for first pregnancy where I came from is probably around that. But I really don't care whether or not anyone from home thinks that I had mine "too late" or whatever.

[b] Now, does anyone know what Liz Bruenig is talking about with her preschool situation? She says that the other parents seemed like they couldn't understand how she afforded it, but she says it was a free DC PK3 and the other families were paying families from the suburbs. Am I out of the loop for never having heard of a facility like that? I thought all of the DC PK3's were their own, city-funded facilities. Are there some where out-of-staters can pay? (It's a little weird for Bruenig's fellow parents that they were sending their kids to a DC PK3 and somehow didn't understand that it was free for the DC residents like Bruenig.)[/b] [/quote]

This was actually my main take away LOL. I live in DC. What the hell is she talking about?[/quote]

Some non-public DC preschools are CBOs who get subsidized by DC's pre-school expansion program, so DC children can attend for free.  Those classrooms follow DCPS curriculum and other rules.  My son was in a subsidized PK3 classroom.  I have never heard of kids from the suburbs attending, though.[/quote]

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