Does my daughter need to go to 3-year-old kinder?
Posted by WonderWoman in : Kids stuff , trackbackI am a bit annoyed about the kinder system in Victoria. In most suburbs, little more than sessional kinder is available i.e. two or three sessions a week of three or so hours duration. And that’s great if your employed is OK with you working in less-than-three-hour grabs…
So it works for stay-at-home parents. What about the rest of us?
I understand the value of preschool. I intend to send my daughter to four-year-old kinder, even if it means rearranging my life so that she can attend at least some sessions each week, but what’s three-year-old kinder about? Should I rearrange my life for that, too?
All help gratefully received!
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Join the private system until someone manages to drag the state system into the modern world. My son is doing 3yo kinder 4.5 days a week -and we’re talking full school days - and loving it. We’re watching a toddler transform into a little person at a rate of knots and no doubt the social and educational value of a decent early learning program is contributing.
I can imagine it’d be great for your toddler to attend 4.5 days a week. But it’s especially good for you, too, if you’re a working parent - and I assume you are.
Even in backwards old Qld, where I grew up, even three year-olds went to kinder two FULL DAYS a week IN THE 1970s! (Four-year-olds went three FULL DAYS a week.)
I think more and more people will be joining the private system. The public one is a farce - from my point of view - at present.
Your daughter does not ‘Need’ to go to Kinder, but it will benefit her tremendously. However Child Care centres cater for Children from 6 weeks to 6 years and some even have registered Kinder Programs running. You could still work full time.
3 year old kinder is not necessary, but my quiet 3 year old benefited quite a bit, and he is now loving four year old kinder. I am a stay at home mum, so it suits us. We were lucky to get into our kinder of which we only live 5 houses away from as it is such a wonderful kinder, a few of our friends who also live close by missed out. The way in which you get into kinder is a farce in some councils, but that is a whole different story.
If I worked, I would not hesitate in putting my kids into child care, most of them have a very good kinder program, well they should anyway if they have been accredited.
Do what is best for you, kinder or child care, your kids should still get the education, stimulation and socialisation that they need.
I couldn’t imagine having my toddler or 3 year old in “kinder” for 4.5 days unless I was working. They can learn so much from you at home, if you wanted to put in the effort.!