[Seeker_Of_Sins]

My daughter went to daycare from age 1 through to starting school at age 5 and I would recommend it to anyone. Your child receives extra attention giving them a leg-up in life. They enter school at an advanced learning stage enabling them to quickly excell and move forward. They are better able to grasp problems and arrive at solutions and finally their social skills are greatly improved allowing them to easily adjust to a busy school environment.

If you only have one child then these things will be severley curtailed if the child is raised at home. Many of my friends have only one child and they have raised that child to school age at home, all of them are shattered by the experience and the knowledge that their child is behind many others when they enter school.

A child has one chance at education, once its gone you are just an old fart trying to recapture youth or lost opportunity. I emplore any parent to thoroughly investigate quality childcare with dedicated and intelligent teaching staff. If all it is is supervised play then don't bother. If they have a programme designed to challenge a child mentally and physically every day then you should proceed.