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Inhome DCPs and Preschool

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If you are at an inhome what are doing about preschool? Does your inhome do preschool-type activities? Are you not concerned, just going for the socialization etc? 

I am assuming that most at a center usually pick a center with a preschool-type curriculum, and this is not an issue, but if I am wrong, please feel free to add.

I ask because we have recently moved to the sticks (not quite, but seems like it) and the daycare options are limited. We originally started at a center and hated it and found an inhome that we like, and is fine for my 2yo and infant, but if we are here for a year or so, I may be interested in a preschool option. But it seems silly to pay for daycare and preschool, I work from home so I could take her and drop her off and there is a program that interests me, but again it seems a bit odd.

 

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  • itsmevkbitsmevkb member

    Most of the schools in our area offer K3 (so kindergarten for 3-year-olds aka preschool) so we've chosen that route.  We also looked into a private preschool, which is not a daycare so those are out there as well.  We've always used in home and honestly, before I had kids, I didn't even realize that daycares offerred what would be considered preschool so I just always expected to have to do both.

    And, since my mom was a kindergarten teacher, the idea of a teacher in a school teaching them somehow seems more normal to me than that happening at a daycare.  It's a huge pain for us though trying to figure out transportation as the K3 is only until 10:50am.

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  • mylittlesunshinemylittlesunshine member

    Our girls go to an in home. Our provider at one time had said she was going to do some preschool type activities with the "older" kids. But, truth be told, I don't think she is doing it. Just too many kids of all different ages. Mainly, we like it because of the socialization.

    We are going to an open house at the end of the month for a preschool that is close to where I work. It is 3 days a week and offers after school care for the days she goes (since it would be impossible to transport back to her dcp when she is done). On the two days she isn't at preschool, she will be at our in home providers house.

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  • azuremamaazuremama
    I have some friends whose kids go to preschool in the am and then an in-home center for the afternoon.
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  • cnthrdlywt2bwZcnthrdlywt2bwZ member
    Our Park District does evening and Saturday preschool for the younger kids. Maybe that's an option, if inhome isn't providing those activities?

    We love our inhome care and will probably do that until our oldest is ready for school and a daycare center after school.
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  • hoping4stickyhoping4sticky member
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    We will be transitioning to preschool rather than our inhome daycare (Who we love) when DD is two. I think she needs the social aspect at that age.

    ETA: I'm kind of confused by the paying for daycare and preschool...most preschools here are full-day programs and are daycare as well...

    We are in a military town where most people do not work, so there are a few DC centers that also do preschool, but since we started at the 'best' and didn't last more than a week, those options are out. The majority of preschools are 9-12 either 2, 3, or 5 days a week. Some allow you to extend an hour or so on either side. Most are church based but there are also two montessori preschools.
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  • QueSrahQueSrah member

    We moved DD from an in-home to a Montessori preschool just before she turned 3.  We wanted more "education" than her in-home could provide, and also more time with older kids.  I saw Montessori as the last opportunity for DD to be the youngest in her class (her birthday is 3 weeks after the school year cutoff).  We have issues with how the director runs the school, so we are moving her to a more traditional (and daycare-ish) preschool this summer.

    If your choice is full time in-home care, or part-time in home/part-time preschool, missing out on preschool isn't the end of the world.  Especially if you have to pay full time prices for the in-home to keep your spot, and have to deal with the logistics of getting your kid from preschool to the in-home in the middle of your work day.  If I didn't have multiple full-time preschool options to consider, I would have found a way to get comfortable with our in-home for another year or two.

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