It's part-time preschool for Edamommy's daughter, if she goes by the results of our Guilty-Mom poll. Of the 41 folks who voted, slightly more than half thought the 4-year-old should go to school just 2 days a week next year, as her mother would prefer, instead of 4-5 days.

I was mulling this over as I said goodbye to my son's preschool teachers on their last day together yesterday. He's off to kindergarten after a year of full-day (in our case, extended-day) preschool. Now this was a kid who actively loved school and his pals there, so it was easy to feel good about sending him. But I'm also confident that he's prepared for kindergarten.

As some posters noted, kindergarten now is what first grade used to be. The kids are expected to already know counting and letters. They're learning to read and expected to know how to behave.

The key to feeling good about it all in our case was that our preschool struck a great balance between learning and just plain fun. When my daughter left and started kindergarten, she missed all the time they had to play outside and make up their own games at her old school.

So do we need less preschool? Or less rigorous kindergarten? Or both?