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Preschools and daycare centers can be quite similar. "People tend to use the word 'daycare' in a derogatory way, but that's a misconception," says Leslie Roffman, director of San Francisco's Little School. Daycare centers and preschools must meet the same licensing and accreditation requirements, they cost about the same, and you can evaluate them using many of the same criteria.
The biggest difference is how early they accept children. The term "preschool" refers to programs designed for children from the age of about 21/2 to 5 or 6. Daycare centers may serve a much wider age range. Some accept infants as young as 6 to 8 weeks old, young toddlers, and even elementary school children for after-school care.
Preschools may also have more limited hours than daycare centers — for instance, a few hours a day, two to five times a week. A growing number, however, offer extended hours so working parents can leave their kids for an entire day.
Curriculum may be one reason to go with a preschool. Many are organized around a specific educational theory or approach, such as Montessori or Waldorf. "If a large opinion survey were conducted on the difference between schools and childcare for preschool children, school-based programs (nursery schools and kindergartens) would be described as more educationally focused while childcare programs would be seen as more custodial," writes Ellen Galinsky, co-president of the Families and Work Institute in New York, in her book The Preschool Years.
But the very best daycare centers also feature curricula carefully designed to encourage children's cognitive, social, and physical development. If you have your child enrolled in one already, it might be better to sit pretty until regular school starts rather than switch in midstream.
Watch out for preschools or daycare centers that have stringent academic programs. "Be wary of programs that claim to teach academic skills or 'speed up' children's intellectual development," says the American Academy of Pediatrics in Caring for Your Baby and Young Child. "From a developmental standpoint, most preschoolers are not yet ready to begin formal education."
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