Preschool

[Bonaventure]

What are your thoughts on it?

My son will be 2 this upcoming school year.

We have enough help, including my in laws.

Want to get the pulse on what other Catholic parents have done and think.

What's a good age? 2, 3, 4, never?

[Mushroom]

Our daughter will be 2 in a few months. We plan on homeschooling so preschool would be a no. But I personally didn't go when I was growing up.

[Bernadette]

When my niece went to preschool, she went from eating loads of vegetables to only wanting mac and cheese and hotdogs, etc. Because that's what her friends ate.

[The Curt Jester]

Your children will learn everything that preschool can teach and more just by being with you.  Play with them, read to them, talk to them.  Preschool is merely 7-hour babysitting in a less-than-ideal environment.  Children who skip preschool and kindergarten and enter school in grade 1 catch up immediately as long as they don't have entirely neglectful parents.   It's not worth three years of school time and have zero advantage.

Your child will learn bad habits, have peers who have a bad influence and flustered teachers who have to deal with 25 3-year-olds every day for the duration of the year.

[drummerboy]

My dad didn't even do kindergarten

[TradGranny]

The nanny-state loves to have access to little minds, the younger the better.

In regard to socialization, children lacking siblings or nearby cousins might benefit from carefully chosen families for get-togethers.

[diaduit]

I did preschool with all mine and they enjoyed it, it was 9.30 to 12.30pm and it was only play, no meditation nonsense just play.

2 would be a bit young for me, mine started at either 3 or 4 depending on their level of clinginess.  I think you only have 1 child Bon so for that reason I would certainly start them in preschool even if it was one or two days.  If they are clingy and do not want to go, I wouldn't make them.

[Antonius]

The nanny-state loves to have access to little minds, the younger the better.

In regard to socialization, children lacking siblings or nearby cousins might benefit from carefully chosen families for get-togethers.

I certainly agree with this TD. In the UK, the woke agenda is getting force fed to people. Especially young children at an age where they can be easily influenced.

[Cesar_Augustus]

My Parents enrolled me into Kindergarden at 5yo.

By then, I already knew how to read, write, basic mathematics and various things, since my Mom taught me from an early age.

So I was sent to Kindergarden instead of first year of Elementary School at that age for socialization reasons.

Also some Schools didn't accepted me at that young age for first year of Elementary School.

God bless you and your families!