//I can't imagine never involving my child in a school-like setting and then dropping them off for the first day of kindergarten having not experienced a simila

//I can't imagine never involving my child in a school-like setting and then dropping them off for the first day of kindergarten having not experienced a similar setting.// For those of us over 40ish, that is exactly what happened. 2 income families didn't become the norm until the 80s. Prior to that most of us stayed home with mom until she dropped us off for the first day of kindergarten. We don't seem to have suffered due to it.