{"id":48057,"date":"2015-01-25T01:02:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T01:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_welcome_to_preschool_time_to_enroll_for_next_year\/"},"modified":"2015-01-25T01:02:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T01:02:17","slug":"csm_welcome_to_preschool_time_to_enroll_for_next_year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48057","title":{"rendered":"(CSM) Welcome to preschool: Time to enroll for next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, three weeks into my son\u2019s preschool career and we are already jockeying for a position next year. I\u2019ve spent three paychecks from my part-time job, plus multiple hours of work-at-home time to get the necessary forms filled out and notarized so he can stay in the school.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a friend dropped off her son\u2019s registration packet with me to hold on to for registration day, since she will be out of town. I asked her how this whole registration thing will go down.<\/p>\n<p>She told me that moms start lining up at 9 a.m. My eyes glazed over. Now I\u2019m starting the registration process again. I am not a stay-at-home-mom, I\u2019m an agent.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it could be worse. I could be paying for both school AND an admissions coach, who helps parents navigate getting into the best preschools in Manhattan, which cost upwards of $40K in tuition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/The-Culture\/Family\/Modern-Parenthood\/2015\/0123\/Welcome-to-preschool-Time-to-enroll-for-next-year\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, three weeks into my son\u2019s preschool career and we are already jockeying for a position next year. I\u2019ve spent three paychecks from my part-time job, plus multiple hours of work-at-home time to get the necessary forms filled out and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48057\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,101,149,111,168,98,177,593,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-children","category-economy","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-personal-finance","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}