Trying to decide about preschool????

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Registered: 08-02-2007
Trying to decide about preschool????
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Thu, 08-02-2007 - 7:43pm

Hi,
I have a 4 year old who will start kindergarten in Fall of 2008. I have been a stay at home mom since he was born although I do work from home too. I have a dilemma about whether to send him to preschool or not. Right now, he is ahead of the game on numbers, shapes, alphabet and the such. However, even though he has been to 1 hour classes before, never one like the 3 hour preschool classes that are available. Three hours seems like a long time for him since he gets tired after the one hour class. Also, he is used to eating when he is hungry (every two hours) and the hours of preschool around my area are 930-1230, therefore, he wouldn't be able to eat for three and he gets pretty grumpy and tired if he doesn't eat on time. Does anyone else have this dilemma????

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Registered: 01-18-2007
Thu, 08-02-2007 - 8:31pm
I'm not quite in this dilemma yet, but am deciding the same thing with my DD.

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Registered: 05-11-2007
Thu, 08-02-2007 - 9:40pm

hi I just started lurking here so hope you dont mind me posting. My daughter is also starting kindergarden in 08, and we recently decided to sign her up for preschool. It was a hard decision for us she also loves to snack throughout the day and gets cranky when not able to. We ended up deciding to send her because we feel she would end up having to deal with the issues(not eating when she wanted or playing something she wants to right then) in another year anyway and also we feel she could benefit from the interaction with other children, and liked starting her in half day prek instead first then just having her go to all day kindergarden right off.If she does not deal well this year we figure we could always pull her out and just wait until kindergarden to give her that extra year.

Dawn

 

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Registered: 02-25-2004
Fri, 08-03-2007 - 12:07pm
My child turned two last month and will start a Mom's Day Out preschool program in 2 weeks. They go two mornings a week for 3 hours. I do not think this is too much. For one, he gets to interact with kids, learn, and I get a break. In my opinion, it will be better for him to go this year and make a transition than have to go all day 5 days next year and not have been transitioned into. The separation may be rougher then.
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Registered: 02-25-2004
Fri, 08-03-2007 - 12:11pm

I also think that children adjust more than we give them credit. Personally, I think it great for our kids to have their own little activities away from us plus you might even get to meet some moms that are at the same place in live as you are where your kids can play. Right now my child stays home with me but he has been kept home with family since he was born. He begs me to let him go play with kids. So I think once they get to preschool they will enjoy the interaction with people little like them.

Plus, they will be more successful in school b/c they will have gotten out of those social anxieties and can focus on learning.

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Registered: 01-14-2006
Fri, 08-03-2007 - 3:57pm

HI, my DD Emily will be 3 in Oct. I wasn't planning on sending her to preschool this year, but I found a co-op preschool that had a summer program. Emily has been going there 3 days a week for the past 4 weeks. It's 9-1. They have snack at 10:15 (provided by one of the parents) and lunch at noon (I

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