I need a good private school in G.P/Irving area. Anything but Catholic! Child is 2 yr old girl.?

Question

The child is a 2 year old girl, potty trained and enrolled in Kindarcare. They do not focus enough on education for me

Answer 1

Not sure what you mean by education, but if you mean reading, etc, it's too soon at 2 yrs old. Preschool is for fun, learning social skills and learning behavior for Kindergarten. Many of the fun activities preschoolers do are actually developmental training for school skills. Example - Playing with a little car, making it go along a road is conditioning and hands, fingers and wrists for writing later on. In my son's pre-k (4 yr olds) they learned one letter and one number a week. The school feeds into the most advanced academic prestigious private schools in our city.

You really don't want to rush the developmental steps of learning. It can lead to learning disabilities if skills are not learned in order. Early readers will make it clear they want to read. My son drove us crazy asking what every word everywhere was when he was 2. He taught himself to read, and by 3 he could read and comprehend chapter books. (Just reading words isn't enough, the child needs to comprehend, that's one of the issues of teaching reading too early.)

The trick is finding the right match in preschool for your child. My son loved preschool since his 2 day a week program at 18 months. But it was an extremely developmental school (free range kids my dh called it) and they had too many activities out and my son wanted to do each one every day, which wasn't possible. They also had too few rules for my son's liking. Turns out he liked structure, so we sent him to a more structured preschool program at 3 and it was a great fit.

Good luck in finding the right school for your daughter.

Answer 2

Wait 2 more years

Answer 3

"Anything but Catholic" -- why put such an arbitrary restriction on it? What if the Catholic preschool is the best one?