Losing kids to pre-school ugh !! JUst venting :)

[Serendipity]

I agree that through years of experience and a general interest in children is definitely a requirement for being able to provide greart care but it still doesn't mean that home daycare is best for kids once they reach the preschool age.
Children who are preschool age DO need an educated provider/teacher in order to teach them academics. Someone without the deeper understanding and knowledge from an ECE degree is not necessarily qualified to teach children the academic part of learning in comparison to a home daycare provider.
I would think THAT is the line of thinking used by parents when they pull their child from home care and enroll them in preschool.

[sunnydays]

As a parent who has looked for daycare in the past (before I had my own daycare), I was not really interested in finding someone with ECE...if they had it that would be nice to know, but would not make me think they were a better caregiver. I looked more at experience, personality, program, etc. I actually disagree that kids need an ECE who is qualified to teach them academics...I mean we are talking about kids under 4 years of age (at least in Ontario). I actually feel that parents are led to believe these days that kids can no longer learn what the need to learn through playing...which is funny because when I was a kid, kids just played until they started school (and I didn't start school until six)...I don't think it put us at a disadvantage. In fact, kids are becoming more and more stressed because we are pushing them into so many structured activities and trying to make them into baby geniouses and super athletes etc. I think a caring, intelligent, caregiver can provide everything a young child needs to learn in those early years without having a degree in ECE or any other degree for that matter.

I agree that through years of experience and a general interest in children is definitely a requirement for being able to provide greart care but it still doesn't mean that home daycare is best for kids once they reach the preschool age.
Children who are preschool age DO need an educated provider/teacher in order to teach them academics. Someone without the deeper understanding and knowledge from an ECE degree is not necessarily qualified to teach children the academic part of learning in comparison to a home daycare provider.
I would think THAT is the line of thinking used by parents when they pull their child from home care and enroll them in preschool.