QUESTION OF THE DAY
How long did it take you to settle into the groove of leaving your ‘baby’ at kindergarten? Have you heard of any funny stories your child has told the teacher?
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When school started 25 days ago — and for the next few weeks — we walked A to the door and stood and watched him walk in. Then stood for a fraction of a second longer, imagining that it helped, somehow. (It helped me, I suppose). My husband even went inside the school and saw A settled with his friends.
Today I pulled up at the side of the road, left the car running, opened A’s door, saw him across the road — and off he ran without a backwards glance as I blew him a kiss. As he ran the length of the sidewalk along the front of the school, I hopped back into my car and drove it slowly down the road alongside him.
I rolled my window down to shout a comment to him, but he didn’t turn around. He was focused on the staff member who ushers them into the hall. She greets him every morning with a cheery “Hi, A!” and a comment on something or other. This morning, as I rolled past I saw him screech to a halt beside her and start talking,
“My mom…” he began, but by then I was pulling out of earshot, past the crossing guard and on into the traffic.
I was struck by the sudden realization that my boy goes off into the world with all kinds of stories about us and our doings and opinions and he’ll regurgitate the most unexpected things with no prompting whatsoever. He doesn’t miss a trick (listening to news radio with him around is always a lesson in that very thing: “So Barak Obama’s the president, right?”).
I know my parents had some laughs, and some more awkward moments, at Parents’ Nights during my own, verbose childhood.
I wonder what A’s teachers hear about us.
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QUESTION OF THE DAY
How long did it take you to settle into the groove of leaving your ‘baby’ at kindergarten? Have you heard of any funny stories your child has told the teacher?
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It’s amazing how they go off and adjust so quickly isn’t it? We settled in about a week or so later. My son takes the bus, and we quickly got into a routine-he hold my hand we walk to the edge of the driveway, the bus drive says “safe to cross” we do, and he gets on the bus. I still wave and watch as the bus goes down the street. It’s hard to believe his school year is almost over! I haven’t heard of any stories yet, although I am SURE there are some!!