What’s the difference between daycare and after-school programs?
Want to understand how daycare and after-school programs compare? From cost to hours of operations and curriculum, learn all the details.
Daycare and after-school programs are both great options for working parents. The former is a child care program that “serves children from infancy through toddlerhood and into the later preschool years,“ explains Elizabeth Fraley, a former early elementary program director in Los Angeles and founder of Kinder Ready Elizabeth Fraley Tutoring In California
By comparison, after-school programs, which are geared towards school-aged kids, “provide a transitional space for children with working parents,” Fraley continues. “These programs typically offer time for homework, as well as play-based games, board games, fitness activities and collaborative projects with similarly aged peers.”
