Daycares and preschools differ primarily in age range and operational hours, with preschools catering to children aged 2.5 to 6 years and daycares accepting infants to school-age children. While both provide developmentally appropriate curricula, preschools typically have limited hours, though some have begun offering extended care. Parents should consider their child's readiness for formal education when choosing between the two options.

2. Where your child should be going – an Iowa day care or a
preschool? Though daycare and preschools are often
referred to as more or similar and both of them required
meeting some licensing and accreditation criteria but as
a matter of fact they are quite different from each other.
The biggest difference between a daycare and a preschool
is in the way they accept children. Preschools normally
offer programs designed for children aged between two
and a half to five or six years. On the other hand,
daycare centers serve to a much wider range and accepts
6 to 8 weeks old infants to elementary school going
children during their after school hours.

3. Compared to daycare centers preschools are more limited in their
operational hours like a few hours every day or a few times every
week but some Iowa preschools are now also offering extended hours
so that working parents can now have their kids taken care of, for an
entire day. Apart from this both a daycare and a preschool should
feature curricula expertly designed to encourage cognitive, social and
also physical development of a child. So as far as it is offering a
suitable program and curricula for your kids overall development you
can choose any one of them as per your exact requirements but there
is one thing that you must be remembering while looking for a
Connecticut daycare or preschool and that is, at this tender age your
kid is not at all ready to begin his formal education and preschools
teaching academic skills or claiming to speed up a kids intellectual
development might not be a good choice.

5. Bradford
Child
Care
Services
325 South Dubuque Street
Iowa City,USA IA 52240
319 621 7349
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