A good kindergarten should first be a formal registered and standardized kindergarten. The so-called norms include not only its facilities, space environment, management, staffing and teacher conditions, but also its daily life content, curriculum, teacher-child relationship and so on. For example, as early as 1989, the Regulations on Kindergarten Management promulgated by the State Education Commission stipulated: "Kindergarten directors and teachers should have graduated from preschool normal schools (including preschool education majors in vocational schools) or passed the examination by the education administrative department." The Regulations on Kindergarten Work promulgated by 1996 also clearly stipulates the admission and arrangement of classes for young children, kindergarten health care, kindergarten education, kindergarten premises, equipment, kindergarten staff, kindergarten funds, the relationship between kindergartens and families and communities, and kindergarten management. The Guiding Outline of Kindergarten Education (Trial) issued by the Ministry of Education in 20001also gives clear instructions on the principles, contents and requirements, organization and implementation, and educational evaluation of kindergarten education and teaching. Therefore, standardized kindergartens refer to kindergartens that can follow these basic regulations, procedures and outlines and make them conform to the basic laws of early childhood education.

Secondly, the key to a good kindergarten is that the management concept, educational concept and implementation method of kindergarten are very scientific. How much knowledge is taught to children is not the standard for us to judge the quality of kindergartens. Sometimes the more you teach, the more you deviate from your child's nature, which is harmful and useless.

Of course, the level of fees is not the standard to judge the quality of kindergartens. Relatively speaking, the fees of public kindergartens are lower than those of private kindergartens. This is not to say that the quality of public kindergartens is inferior to that of private kindergartens, but because their charging standards are not the same. The facilities and equipment of public kindergartens are invested by the government, and the salaries of teaching staff are all borne by the government. So the start-up cost is low and the charge is low. Moreover, the education administrative department and the price department are quite strict in the management of fees for public kindergartens, and it is absolutely not allowed to raise prices privately. The charging standard of private kindergartens is mainly calculated by kindergartens according to the input cost and reported to the price department for approval and filing. Because private kindergartens invest themselves and bear all the material, financial and human resources, the cost is high, so the fees are relatively high. However, as far as private kindergartens are concerned, it is really difficult for private kindergartens with low fees to provide high-quality early childhood education, because low fees will inevitably reduce the input cost and the salaries of teachers and staff. Therefore, it is difficult for such private kindergartens to retain good teachers and ensure better teaching quality. Of course, this does not mean that the higher the fees, the higher the quality of education. At present, many kindergartens blindly compare luxurious facilities and equipment, ignoring the training of teachers, and the result is putting the cart before the horse. Therefore, when parents choose a kindergarten for their children, they should not be misled by the hardware facilities of the kindergarten, but should pay more attention to the specific management of teachers' quality and education security.

As for the assessment and rating of kindergartens implemented by the education administrative department, it should be a reliable basis. The administrative department of education has a standard system for evaluating kindergartens, which promotes the standardization of kindergartens. However, whether the evaluation results are scientific and credible is related to the professionalism of the evaluator and the seriousness of the work.

Word of mouth between parents is usually the most trustworthy. Our view is that other parents' comments on kindergartens are for reference only. Because different parents have different cultural qualities, different educational concepts and different perspectives, they generally see the situation of their children's classes and some individual moments of their teachers, so it is easy to generalize. Therefore, in order to truly understand a kindergarten, parents must learn to position themselves, and then make a decision after on-the-spot investigation and feeling.