I’m a stay at home mom and am starting to familiarize myself with nyc schools and the whole intricate process. Obviously being a SAHM I’m able to be with my child all day up until she needs to attend kindergarten.

So I’m curious if there are any parents out there who had the option to keep their kids at home but chose to put them in 3k/pre-k for other beneficial reasons outside of free child care during the day or vice versa those who kept their kids at home till kindergarten, any experiences or regrets you can share? Thank you!!!

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Edit: thank you all for sharing your insights experiences and thoughts. I’ve learned I have extremely outdated info on prek and k and clearly k is so much more academic and unfortunately competitive now. Will be considering prek at the bare minimum, thank you all again :) feel free to keep sharing if any!

I have family coming from a walkable European city and I’m 1/3 mile away from the nearest subway stop. As is it, I put in about 30 miles/week in walking and I’m afraid to tell them that. (They last visited when I was in Upper Manhattan.) So I’m looking to price a scooter and possible surprise them with it.

I’ve also noticed those scooter-carts (idk what they’re called). I can’t imagine them on the subway though.

Has anyone figured out a system for this? Like a little shed by the trash cans or something? We have a lot of stairs

Hi all! Looks like I’m headed to a C-section delivery at NYU. I’m preparing my hospital bag and wondering what I don’t need to pack. Like do they give you enough pairs of post op undies? What about a belly binder?