Odd response. I agree with what the co-worker was implying but daycare is the blanket term. Maybe English is not the co-worker's native language?

Anonymous wrote:I don't think of it as daycare v. center, but maybe your co-worker thinks of in-home daycare v. center. Daycare can be provided in a home or in a center. Typically centers are larger and usually the kids are grouped by age, so there will be a room for the infants, for the one-year-olds, and so on.

I think you're right PP--when OP said daycare, the coworker clarified center vs in-home.

I don't think of it as daycare v. center, but maybe your co-worker thinks of in-home daycare v. center. Daycare can be provided in a home or in a center. Typically centers are larger and usually the kids are grouped by age, so there will be a room for the infants, for the one-year-olds, and so on.

Weird conversation.

I was being friendly.

Why did you ask what she does with her kid?

At work I asked?" Does you child go to daycare?" I was corrected "no he goes to a center."

I know he/she is nor disabled, which is what center makes me think of.


Perhaps she was pointing out that they have academic rigor but don't all non-home daycares have some sort of program to teach the abc?

Is a center really different or was my coworker being snarky?