Family Forever
Daycare Dreams and Realities
How to find a preschool that fits yours and your child's needs
My daughter is seven now. Silly and sunny-natured yet acutely alert to the machinations of the world around her. These precious seeds of her emerging personality were evident even when she was a baby, but there I was, handing her over to be nurtured by paid strangers. Despite the easygoing, hip-parent facade I was trying to cultivate back then, secretly I believed that the only suitable caregiver would be an exact clone of myself. Given that science had at that point only managed to successfully duplicate a sheep, there was no recourse but to cautiously scope out local daycare options. While some preschools accept infants, other programs only admit children who are two or three years of age. Generally, if a school has both infants and …
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