A year ago, I was also struggling with this problem. The son is three years old and the second. My sister is two years older than her. I have been working full-time for four years since Dabao was born. In Hangzhou, a so-called big city, the pressure on her husband to earn money alone is increasing. In addition, my husband's company has moved to a new location, and the surrounding entertainment and leisure places are not so crowded and there are fewer children. The resource that my son has access to is our family. To sum up, I sent him over two years old to the nursery. I got a job myself!
What I want to say is: "need" or "don't need" should be considered in combination with the actual situation of your family.
This family will probably have the following situations:
The first situation: Mom and Dad are both office workers, so there is no way to give the baby more companionship and care, and there is no old man to help take care of the children. I don't want to send my baby back to my hometown, so in this case, I need to send my child to a nursery.
In the second case, mom and dad are both office workers, so they can't give their children more companionship and care, and the old people live together. If the old people's parenting concept is old, and they don't plan to learn new parenting concepts, and parents attach importance to the quality of their children's education, I think it is better to send their babies to early education institutions or nurseries!
The third situation: some parents are partial to the propaganda of early education institutions or educational institutions. A neighbor's child is at school, his girlfriend's family is at school, and his husband's colleague's family is also at school, so they follow the trend and send their children to early education or nursery. I think this situation is "unnecessary".
In short, it depends on the actual situation of the child. If your children are outgoing and cheerful, and can quickly integrate into the group life, you don't have to send them to early education classes. However, if your children don't want to play with them at ordinary times, they always like to cling to their parents or grandparents, and their self-care ability is poor. It is best to enroll their children in an early education class in advance to adapt to collective life, otherwise such children will easily get sick every three days after going to kindergarten.