If you're a SAHM in a place where free, full-day UPK is offered....is your four year old attending in the fall? DH and I keep going back and forth on whether to send DD1 (who will be 4) to UPK, or to keep her in fewer days/hours at her private school. DH keeps coming back to the fact that he thinks UPK isn't really for families with SAHMs, it's for families who need the full time child care.

The details:
We just got offered a second round UPK spot at one of our top choice programs (people pay $$$$$ for it, but for us, it'd be free because it's UPK)...of course, this is after I've already made the first two tuition payments for DD1's private nursery school for next year. I'm torn torn torn for so many reasons, but the primary one is wondering if 5 days a week, 6+ hours a day is just too much for a four year old when it's not necessary as a form of daycare. The program we got into has AMAZING facilities (dance/yoga studio, gymnastics equipment, kitchen/cooking facilities for the kids to make their own snack each day), but she loves her current preschool (mainly the teachers) too. If we stay with the private school, she'll go 3 days a week, 9 am to 1 pm.

I'm just curious what other families where one parent IS available to be at home (who therefore technically have less "incentive" to do UPK, I guess) have chosen to do. Thanks so much in advance for weighing in!