Why is my 2 year old now called "preschooler"?

It always annoyed me the way the daycares I worked at *treated* the 2 year olds like preschoolers. At 2, they were supposed to be able to sit and do things with the group, like circle time or art projects.
and at 12 months old, heaven forbid your BABY still was getting a bottle because don't you know, they're now overnight a TODDLER going to the TODDLER room and they don't NEED a bottle. There too they started to expect some ability for the whole group to stay together, and no more morning naps...my son took morning naps on a regular or semi-regular basis till at LEAST 15 months, at nearly 18 months now he has really evened out to an earlier, longer single nap. And some of those poor babies were there at 5:30 AM!! if my son gets up at 5:30 STILL he wants a nap in the AM!

and i didn't say a word about what I was typing other than 'pre-preschool' for 2 year olds, and my mom pipes up she just saw on the news last night they are making Sesame Street videos advertised for SIX MONTHS AND UP!! OK I'm not against TV, and I love Sesame Street but my son is 18 months old and has seen a couple clips of the show. He's seen a couple Wiggles clips, and he has ONE DVD that is HIS, a Signing Smart video. And he saw NONE of this certainly not before 12 months and maybe it was even 15.
He STILL does not watch TV daily, I mean that I actually turn it on FOR HIM. (yeah he flips over the occasional 'PUPPY!" commercial or something, but for the most part he doesn't watch it.)

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That's exactly how I think of it, too.

Damyen's Mommy - sorry. I kind of overreacted there. Please post more!

Some of my mommy friends were talking preschool a few months ago for our 2yos who will be turning 3 this summer. I said "Oh no, I forgot about preschool".

Anyway, one of the Moms told me there was this nice school near her house where, get this, they must be potty trained and wipe themselves, and they learn to write their names, read etc...
I said oh my dd wipes herself, do you mean after pooping? She said yes, that they only take them to the potty at break time otherwise they're on their own and that if they poop they have to wipe themselves. I personally don't know ANY 2-3yo who can wipe their butts efficiently, heck even grown men can't...lol...so I said this and she said well it's only a few hours, I'll just wipe her when she gets home!! Yeah that's healthy.

And since when do toddlers need to write and read???? I called Waldorf immediately, turns out my dd is 1 month too young for school, phew!

Back on topic

I get those same newsletters, and I noticed the same thing happening when my DS turned 2.

I don't think there is any way that a 2 year old can really be considered a preschooler.

But, consider the source!

I really need to cancel those stupid newsletters... but for some reason, I feel compelled to see just how outrageous some of their articles are going to be, and then see how foolish the people who leave comments at those articles are. It's not very nice, but I can't help it.