Anonymous wrote:OP, I'm with you, it's annoying and can be confusing once the kid is 2.5 and you don't know whether or no s/he is really in a preschool or daycare and it's relevant to the conversation. Moms and Dads, just stop feeling bad about sending your kid to daycare. It's fine, really.

When is it ever relevant to the conversation?

Also, I don't feel bad about daycare, and also we call it school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I call our daycare "daycare." This morning, my 2.5-year-old daughter said it was "Time to go to school!"

I instantly corrected her! I made sure to SHOUT (the real-life equivalent of ALL CAPS) that daycare is NOT SCHOOL.

I wanted her to be aware how ASHAMED MOMMY IS of having the audacity to WORK OUTSIDE THE HOME TO FULLY PAY FOR COLLEGE, and that Mommy is TOO CHEAP TO PAY FOR A NANNY.

She now knows that anonymous Internet posters who have never met us ARE RIGHT, and that she should never call the place where she does art projects, sing songs, learn letters and numbers, play games, listen to stories, play pretend, and learn from people with degrees in early childhood education SCHOOL.

If she ever has the audacity to think that I love her or care for her well being, I will remind her that MOMMY ONLY LOVES MONEY AND HER CAREER, and is TOO SELFISH TO BE A GOOD PARENT!

I cannot stop laughing at this.

I was so close to laughing out loud!

OP, I don't quite get what you find annoying. What is the criteria (in your mind) for when a program is daycare versus school? Is it the curriculum that matters? The time spent at the facility? Or, are you saying that no program for two and three year olds is ever really "school" because the day doesn't look or feel like elementary school; in other words, do you object to the idea of "preschool" altogether? So, for example, what about a program that meets only two mornings a week for two year olds and has structured activities and lessons but is primarily play-based? Are you annoyed when people call that "preschool"? It's clearly not daycare (it only meets two mornings a week). Should that be called like "mommy's/nanny's mornings out" or something like that, or are you ok with that being called "preschool"? There is a facility near us where once the kids turn two, the facility has both a part-time and full-time option. The kids in the full time option spend their mornings just like the kids in the part-time option do -- engaging in a typical play-based preschool curriculum. Their afternoons are more relaxed with a rest time, etc. Are they in preschool in the morning and daycare in the afternoon?

Anonymous wrote:I call our daycare "daycare." This morning, my 2.5-year-old daughter said it was "Time to go to school!"

I instantly corrected her! I made sure to SHOUT (the real-life equivalent of ALL CAPS) that daycare is NOT SCHOOL.

I wanted her to be aware how ASHAMED MOMMY IS of having the audacity to WORK OUTSIDE THE HOME TO FULLY PAY FOR COLLEGE, and that Mommy is TOO CHEAP TO PAY FOR A NANNY.

She now knows that anonymous Internet posters who have never met us ARE RIGHT, and that she should never call the place where she does art projects, sing songs, learn letters and numbers, play games, listen to stories, play pretend, and learn from people with degrees in early childhood education SCHOOL.

If she ever has the audacity to think that I love her or care for her well being, I will remind her that MOMMY ONLY LOVES MONEY AND HER CAREER, and is TOO SELFISH TO BE A GOOD PARENT!

I cannot stop laughing at this.

Anonymous wrote:OP, I'm with you, it's annoying and can be confusing once the kid is 2.5 and you don't know whether or no s/he is really in a preschool or daycare and it's relevant to the conversation. Moms and Dads, just stop feeling bad about sending your kid to daycare. It's fine, really.

Hahaha! How is this "relevant to the conversation?" Oh right, so you can be sure to avoid the moms whose kids are in daycare and keep judging them.

I call our daycare "daycare." This morning, my 2.5-year-old daughter said it was "Time to go to school!"

I instantly corrected her! I made sure to SHOUT (the real-life equivalent of ALL CAPS) that daycare is NOT SCHOOL.

I wanted her to be aware how ASHAMED MOMMY IS of having the audacity to WORK OUTSIDE THE HOME TO FULLY PAY FOR COLLEGE, and that Mommy is TOO CHEAP TO PAY FOR A NANNY.

She now knows that anonymous Internet posters who have never met us ARE RIGHT, and that she should never call the place where she does art projects, sing songs, learn letters and numbers, play games, listen to stories, play pretend, and learn from people with degrees in early childhood education SCHOOL.

If she ever has the audacity to think that I love her or care for her well being, I will remind her that MOMMY ONLY LOVES MONEY AND HER CAREER, and is TOO SELFISH TO BE A GOOD PARENT!

Anonymous wrote:If y'all really need something important to get fired up about: The chickpea is neither a chick, nor a pea. Discuss.

I take offense that you dare to call it a chickpea instead of a garbanzo bean!

Anonymous wrote:OP, I'm with you, it's annoying and can be confusing once the kid is 2.5 and you don't know whether or no s/he is really in a preschool or daycare and it's relevant to the conversation. Moms and Dads, just stop feeling bad about sending your kid to daycare. It's fine, really.

That's really not the issue. I have no guilt about daycare and call it a school. Why?
1) because it's easier to pronounce - this is the primary reason
2) teacher seems more polite than caregiver.
3) there is a curriculum.
4) it feels like a school. I pack lunch daily and get report cards.
5) everyone there calls it a school.
6) I pick my battles. Correcting "school" vs "daycare" so OP doesn't get annoyed isn't worth my effort. I have please and thank you and potty training to worry about.

OP, I'm with you, it's annoying and can be confusing once the kid is 2.5 and you don't know whether or no s/he is really in a preschool or daycare and it's relevant to the conversation. Moms and Dads, just stop feeling bad about sending your kid to daycare. It's fine, really.

I was just going to say that, PP! We call it school because my 2.5 yo can say that.

My child is 2. He is learning to talk, and doing a great job, but lets be honest. He doesn't call the thermometer the "beep beep" to be cute. It's because he can't say "thermometer". He also uses "tica" to replace syllables he can't pronounce, leaving me to play charades to figure out whether "ticamin" means "vitamin" or "watermelon" (answer: both, interchangebly").

This is why we call it school. It is easier for him to say school vs daycare. I have no idea what he is saying 1/2 the time but at least I know with 90% accuracy that when he says something that sounds like "school" he means school.

A 2 year old's pronunciation of "daycare", on the other hand, opens up a whole can of worms. Diaper? Do you need a diaper change? Wait...dishwasher? What did you do to the dishwasher. Wait...something with the dog? Dick? What about a dick?

Anonymous wrote:This thread has made me lose all hope for the the human race.

+1

Anonymous wrote:Um....okaaaay.....[backing away slowly]

LOL!

Haha. My 3-year-old insists that he now goes to "school" (He goes to a daycare with a preschool curriculum).

When he was little, he went to an in-home family daycare. He now says, "When I was little I went to daycare at Ms. R's. Now I'm big and go to school!" If I say, to my DH, for example, "Are you doing daycare pickup tomorrow?" the kid will pipe up, "But I go to SCHOOL now!" For him, the difference is that he's in a classroom with lots of other kids and they have things like art time, circle time, music, playground, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Well Daniel tiger calls it school. Not preschool not daycare not childcare. Just school, episode 102.

I would defer to Fred Rogers & co. on this they are far greater authority than the hordes on DCUM.

Oh, and apparently SAHM are homemakers, like his mom.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tiger%27s_Neighborhood

Ha. In fact, I'm fairly certain that Daniel Tiger is why my kid calls it school. We watched an episode where he went to school, where they do all the same things she does at her daycare (play, centers, art, lunch, circle time), and she announced that she went to school. Who am I to argue with Daniel Tiger?