Our daycare is also a "private academy" that includes preschool and goes up through Kindergarten. One of the reasons we loved it was the learning curriculum. She could then continue on at the private grade school, but we'll put her in public school at that point.
We have to decide between Montessori, Waldorf, or French preschools. I'm hoping it will be easy to get into the French ones since Audrey has French citizenship. Plus I found one that is not *insanely* expensive. Just very expensive. Ugh!
TrudyCampbell, I truly think whatever you do for V will be perfect. I think she would do fantastic staying at home with you, but if you need to put her in school so you aren't stressed, she would be fine, too. But, I think you just might be the best person to help her- you are the one meeting with all of the specialists and hearing what they have to say, and you would be the one who is best able to give her all the support she needs.
I know New York is insane, but try not to focus on the preschool-to-ivy-league pipeline. She'll do great wherever she is.
We started looking but are all over the board between traditional preschool through the town or local college, the school he goes to daycare at, goddard school or montessori. Our montessori is waitlist usually so its tough to figure out what to do.
This is my issue. If they don't go next fall, am I screwing them somehow. The preschool you get into impacts which elementary school you get into.
Or original plan was to do Montessori ( I'm sure you know which ones I'm looking at) until 1st grade and then buy a SFH in Brookline. But now I'm second guesses a move out of the city so I want to make sure they start out right.
But the 20k/kid for what, 9 months a year? could be banked for other things.
Damn kids making me have to make unselfish tough decisions
As some of the other MOOKs said, we've already done it with older DS so DS2 will go to the same preschool.
In our case it starts at age 3, and we've had him on the waiting list since he was born. But being a sibling he should get in no problem. They can't wait to take our money. lol. It costs about $100/day, and he'll go 2 days from 8.30-3.30.
Lillian is in a toddler program at a school now. They have pre-school up through kindergarten there so we plan on keeping her where she is at. After the toddler class they have "early preschool" which are generally 18-24 month old. Then it is pre-school.
Same here - Max is starting in a month. It's expensive (just that area where it is is expensive, I've looked into daycares in that area and they were too), but it seems like a great school and its a good option for us bc it's really close to where H works and I love the programs they have. However, not sure how sustainable it'll be financially when we have kid #2. We'll see... There is a great program at a university here but it's fairly far and out of the way to drive to, they have a wait list and we didnt think we would get in and just didn't bother applying bc I thought it would be a PITA to get on campus every day. My friend takes her kid there and loves it, they definitely save some $...
TrudyCampbell, I truly think whatever you do for V will be perfect. I think she would do fantastic staying at home with you, but if you need to put her in school so you aren't stressed, she would be fine, too. But, I think you just might be the best person to help her- you are the one meeting with all of the specialists and hearing what they have to say, and you would be the one who is best able to give her all the support she needs.
I know New York is insane, but try not to focus on the preschool-to-ivy-league pipeline. She'll do great wherever she is.
Thanks for this. It's so hard to not get caught up in everything. I keep trying to remember that she will be TWO.
Have you seen the preschool documentary about NYC? It seems soooo crazy! I think it's called Nursery University. We saw it on Netflix a few yrs ago...