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i'm getting out of the city....the pressure of the preschool ap process got to me...this is not how i want to spend my time...too many kids here anyway, so i'll just save the city the trouble of having to school mine
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05.20.08, 12:26 PM [ Flag ]
- we'll move too before this insanity starts. don't really want my kids in that kind of an environment
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  05.20.08, 12:27 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - that's why we moved. i used to teach kids after school there and every single one of them told me how uch they preferred living in the country than in the city. not a good life. i love and miss ny but i did not want my dd to have that pressure. also, i think kids grow up too fast there.
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    05.20.08, 12:29 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - you're moving to the country? like green acres?
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      05.20.08, 12:30 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - you taught kids where?
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      05.20.08, 12:31 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - if they lived in the city, how did every single one of them know they preferred the country? did they all have country homes?
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      05.20.08, 12:35 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- let me let you in on a little secret (you don't have to buy into all that crap if you don't want to...shhh)
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  05.20.08, 12:29 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - ugh - people do not realize that all the crazy competitive parents are also in living in the 'burbs.
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    05.20.08, 12:32 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - they find out, won't they?
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      05.20.08, 12:33 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      - and then where will they move?
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        05.20.08, 12:38 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - actually it's SOOO much less competitive in our nj burb. We got dd into a great synagogue preschool, sans dd interview, and no stress
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      05.20.08, 12:42 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - op-this actually is a concern of mine, we are looking at affluent neighborhoods b/c our income allows it, but it's not how i lived before i moved to the city, and here (downtown) you can't tell who has money just by looking at them...so we'll see
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      05.20.08, 12:43 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      - if i were you i woudln't just look at affluent neighborhoods. you have to go where the values are that you want your kids to grow up with, not just other people with money
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        05.20.08, 12:45 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - I agree, preschool only has to be stressful if you want it to be. My dd goes to daycare on the UES but if she didn't I would just sign her up for a preschool alternative program - maybe at Rhinelander for $7K per year, and then move to a good school district. Not stressful.
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    05.20.08, 12:33 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - lol - rhinelander rejected us. we did pre-k alternative at magic and then public pre-k. been a little stressful but not so much since we are in a good zone. feel like we can stay put for awhile,
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      05.20.08, 12:37 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - op-not my finding at all, daycare is not an option that i felt comfortable with and there are literally not enough preschools, so it's either you follow the sheep, or your kid stays home with you...and i totally cherish time with her, but she is happy in the school environment, and i feel it'd be good for her part time (3yo)
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    05.20.08, 12:41 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- I felt the same way -- but we had already decided we would move in time for dc#1 to go to kindergarten in burbs. hate the preschool app process tho.
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  05.20.08, 12:31 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- I grew up in the burbs - couldn't wait to get out.
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  05.20.08, 12:31 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - i grew up in the burbs too and couldn't wait to escape...thought i would hate living in one but it's so different when you actually get to choose your neighborhood and location. Now I love it...
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    05.20.08, 12:44 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- we are planning to move before preschool. i can't wait to be back in the suburbs. i love having a baby in the city there is so much to do but i want a yard and big grocery stores etc etc.
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i'm getting out of the city....the pressure of the preschool ap process got to me...this is not how i want to spend my time...too many kids here anyway, so i'll just save the city the trouble of having to school mine

we'll move too before this insanity starts. don't really want my kids in that kind of an environment

that's why we moved. i used to teach kids after school there and every single one of them told me how uch they preferred living in the country than in the city. not a good life. i love and miss ny but i did not want my dd to have that pressure. also, i think kids grow up too fast there.

you're moving to the country? like green acres?

you taught kids where?

if they lived in the city, how did every single one of them know they preferred the country? did they all have country homes?

let me let you in on a little secret (you don't have to buy into all that crap if you don't want to...shhh)

ugh - people do not realize that all the crazy competitive parents are also in living in the 'burbs.

they find out, won't they?

and then where will they move?

actually it's SOOO much less competitive in our nj burb. We got dd into a great synagogue preschool, sans dd interview, and no stress

op-this actually is a concern of mine, we are looking at affluent neighborhoods b/c our income allows it, but it's not how i lived before i moved to the city, and here (downtown) you can't tell who has money just by looking at them...so we'll see

if i were you i woudln't just look at affluent neighborhoods. you have to go where the values are that you want your kids to grow up with, not just other people with money

I agree, preschool only has to be stressful if you want it to be. My dd goes to daycare on the UES but if she didn't I would just sign her up for a preschool alternative program - maybe at Rhinelander for $7K per year, and then move to a good school district. Not stressful.

lol - rhinelander rejected us. we did pre-k alternative at magic and then public pre-k. been a little stressful but not so much since we are in a good zone. feel like we can stay put for awhile,

I felt the same way -- but we had already decided we would move in time for dc#1 to go to kindergarten in burbs. hate the preschool app process tho.

I grew up in the burbs - couldn't wait to get out.

i grew up in the burbs too and couldn't wait to escape...thought i would hate living in one but it's so different when you actually get to choose your neighborhood and location. Now I love it...

we are planning to move before preschool. i can't wait to be back in the suburbs. i love having a baby in the city there is so much to do but i want a yard and big grocery stores etc etc.

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