2 thumbs & a dummy

I’ve been putting off thinking about preschool for Arianna until she turns 4 but with MIL shoving multiple brochures of the various preschools in and around the area, I am sort of forced to think about it now. There are so many choices and options to look at and compare, that it reminds me about picking the best suited life insurance rate! It’s not that we don’t want to or plan to send Arianna to one but I never really got to thinking about it until recently. I am a little shy to admit that I wasn’t too sure what the difference was between childcare and preschool until I plucked up enough courage to ask a couple of friends. In a nutshell, childcare is where the child is literally being cared for and spend most of their time playing in the sandpit the whole day (as one mum explained to me – lol) while preschool is more education based and gets kids ready for Grade 1 and is like from 9am to 3pm . The thing is the government here has scraped the idea of building more childcare centres and the vacancies are limited and you got to register quick or they are just snapped up just like that. With preschool, the government has actually allocated a spot for each 4yr old child so we are not too worried about that bit. It’s just that preschool is more for older kids and if both of us went back to work once Nibbles turns 1, then both Nibbles and KR will have to be in childcare while Arianna goes off to preschool.

It’s a rather messy situation but I’m sure other parents face this too and I reckon it’s better that I start getting my head around how things work now than to stress out and go bonkers when the time comes, if you know what I mean. Also, Ted wants to enrol Arianna in some private school which he thinks is the best in the area and we’ve got to find out when we need to put her name in or we’ll miss out on that too. Aiyo, who ever said parenting was easy must be nuts!!! Making kids, very easy….it’s the bits after that that is so hard to cope with! =.=