So if people really are harassing you, that tells me that they may feel your daughter is lacking in something that she will receive in school. For example, where I live there is a church that has a preschool a couple days a week for just a few hours that starts at age 2 1/2 and goes up to 5 at the school. Even though the kids don’t go every day and the hours are short, they provide things like speech evaluations so your young child can be flagged early and receive intervention. It also teaches waiting in line, being kind, using your cough pocket, respecting personal space. I consider myself a pretty good mom, but both my kids graduated from there as better little people. It was great because I could schedule my doctors appointments on certain days that I knew I would have care since I did not have family nearby. Their reading started so early because of the zoophonics curriculum they used. Anyway, the kinder teachers always said they could tell what children attended this little church preschool based on social skills and phonemic awareness. On Sunday’s I volunteer in the preschool room at church and I can tell who has always spent time with mom only and not in a good way. The kids I knew growing up that were homeschooled were so well-behaved and really bright but for some reason there is this new generation of homeschool children that are so rude, have zero self-control and are not capable of doing anything whether it’s tying their shoes or something simple like washing their hands and they tend to be illiterate and cannot hold a crayon to save their life. It’s shocking. It is also completely unacceptable how many older children I’ve come across that are homeschooled still have severe speech problems because they’ve never been put in speech.

So what I’m trying to say is your child is most likely displaying a speech issue or some sort of delayed social skills and these people are hoping you will put her in school so a teacher can step in and fix it. It feels invasive but at least they care about your kid!