Babble – Tatum Hawkins
“When our family relocated from California to Shanghai, China, my daughters were 2-and-a-half years old and 8 months old. I found it so interesting that one of the first questions people we’d meet would ask us is where our oldest would be attending preschool. Not when or if, but where…Outside the U.S., it’s not uncommon for preschool to start earlier than 3 or 4 years old, and the children often attend all day, four to five days a week. Sending kids off to preschool is a no-brainer for many international parents…So we decided to take the plunge…As a parent, I love the international way of sending kids to preschool at a younger age, and for a number of reasons that I would never have considered before. Here are five of them…”(more)