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Yep! 3 days a week, 2.5 hours each day. WELL worth it, but my LO needed the socialization and had been with no one except me or my mom here or there. LO2 will be going as well. She had rough drop offs all year but made this year (4's preschool) way way better, in my opinion.

My 3 yo (well, he's 4 now but was 3 at the beginning of the school year) is at a parent co-op preschool 3 days a week from 9-12, with the option on any given day to stay until 2 for an additional $10. I love it, he loves it, we're all happier this way. Little brother is still at home, so myself or my mother are always on childcare duty, so it was more for the experience of school than for a break (though at the beginning of the year when LO2 was still taking two naps, there was a bit of a break.) It gives me time to do errands with just one child and doesn't break the bank since it's a co-op.

When she was 3 it was 2 days a week from 9-1. It's been a wonderful experience for her and I'll do the same with my son in another year.

My kid started at 2 and goes 5 days a week. My son is very routine driven and had a speech delay, so going every day was beneficial for him. If we did part-time I think he would have had a harder time getting some consistency. He has really thrived and it has been a complete lifesaver after having my second child. He eats lunch at school and he honestly eats wayyy better there with his peers than he does at home so its also helped his palate too. They run him really hard outside and he gets big messy art projects that I would never do at home and he gets lots of music and dancing and gets to play with kids his age as well as play with older kids and its just been a wonderful experience for him.

When we pulled my 3 yo out of daycare to stay home with a nanny I enrolled him in preschool 3 days a week for 2.5 hours per day. He loves it and if it were free I would send him 5 days but we can only afford so much until he finally turns 5 and goes to public school.

We are in a nanny share and started preschool at 2 years old. He goes 3 days a week 8:30-12:30. The 3s class had an option for 4 or 5 days a week (same time as his current class), so we are doing 5 days in the fall.

We did! 3 days a week, for 3 hours. He LOVES it. Well worth it.

Mine go M-F 8:30-1:30. It's great, very happy with this decision, but certainly not cheap!

we did 3 days for 3 hours a day when he was 3 - he turned four a couple months later - but it's SO worth it - and he loved it, and still does!

The twins are in 3 yr PK right now. They were already going to be in daycare all day anyway, and their daycare is connected to a private school that has PK3-5th grade, so we put them in that as well. They go 5 days a week from 8:15-11:30.

I think having them in some kind of PK would have been good no matter what, though we have not had a super great experience but that had more to do with getting a teacher that was . . . ahem . . . let's say a little different. Even with less than ideal circumstances, they have definitely increased in their letter awareness, ability to write letters, and other general things. I think the best thing, though, has been them just getting more adjusted to a "school" setting because they will be in an all day pre-k next year at a public school, and I'd rather they start learning some of those social/school skills before they go to their "real" school next year. I was at home with them before they started here, so I think it was a hard adjustment in general and I'm glad we did it at 3 when I really don't care how much they actually learned, I just wanted them to have a little experience in more of a school setting rather than just playing at daycare.

My DD was always in full-time daycare but at age 2.9, she switched over to the preschool program at our daycare and it's been a great experience. It is still full-time but the preschool level has a bit more structure and curriculum. I honestly don't know if I would like her in a full-day "academic" preschool, but ours is Montessori with a music focus and I really love the program. They all still nap every day, they get outside at least once and sometimes twice, they get music class every day plus private lessons once per week, and they have a different cultural theme each month. My DD does really well with the Montessori approach and I like that there are kids of various ages in her class (it's for age 2.9 to 6). I think I am going to be pretty sad when she leaves for public school for K.