Have you been wondering which preschool to choose for your two or three-year-old? Do you worry about your child being well-socialized, exposed to enough, and learning all he should? Kudos to you for caring enough to ask such questions! These are good concerns since you should definitely offer your children a rich learning environment and lots of stimulation.
The question is: how is early education best done? There are solid reasons why home might be better than “preschool.”
Whether you want them to or not, children learn all day long, every waking moment. That’s one of many reasons that the “kinder garden of home” works so well! Both passive learning (what they absorb from the environment) and active learning (moments when you intentionally teach) are easy peasy when they happen naturally all day long. I talk about passive and active learning in Your Guide from Birth to Five. It’s really not hard when someone walks you through it and makes you aware of how you can use ordinary, every-day moments to teach your children little by little over five years.
You’ve got this!