I
must admit to being somewhat mystified by the preschool anxiety parents
in more affluent cities face -- and this is really, really an
upper-middle class problem.
Especially since most kids whose
parents who are affluent and involved enough to have their pick of
preschools already have a pretty significant leg up in this culture.
This story from Palo Alto
describes some of the hand-wringing parents from there face when
choosing a preschool. One local parenting group even developed a
“preschool binder” with information and parent reviews of local schools
that had a months-long waiting list for parents to even get a good look
at it (I work for a website that does the same sort of thing in several cities in the US and Canada, by the by).
Admittedly I may be a slacker mom, but here was how we chose our daughter’s preschoo
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