Her teacher is wonderful, the kids seem lovely...but she wants nothing to do with it, because "she'll miss Mommy" while she's there. Tear out my heart, Little Miss. It's hard enough for me to let go and have her attend PreK, she will be the youngest one in her new class. All the other kids seemed to be able to be left and the parents just walked out, without the kids caring. My daughter? FORGET IT. Wouldn't let me leave. So she joined us in the orientation with the parents, because honestly, if I had to HEAR her crying for an hour in the next room, I would have not heard a thing these women were talking about. Her first day, I will not be in the building, so the teachers will have to handle the separation anxiety on her part.....not sure about who will help me for my separation anxiety. She'll only be there for a couple of hours each day, I have The Boy to take care of.......so no prescriptions to calm my nerves, so I hope The Boy can distract me enough until we have to get Little Miss.
And after all of this, all I can really think about is her needing school supplies. It's PreK? What the heck, people? SCHOOL SUPPLIES? Really? For PreK? Are you kidding me?NO, they're not kidding. She has to have a backpack and two marble notebooks. TOO FUNNY.
Off to Target we went with Nana, Nana-Nana and The Boy to get her a backpack, two marble notebooks and some other items I hope will help her to be excited to go to school. Her favorite: THE PHOTO ALBUM.
Of course, Nana can't buy Little Miss a backpack and not get The Boy one, so he, too, has a backpack. So now we're ahead of schedule for his big PreK experience in TWO YEARS. LOL. Of course, that backpack won't make it that long!
My son started PreK last year. There were 2 kids that screamed bloody murder every day when mommy left them and one of them was mine. It was terrible. Every day that I left him in tears, I left in tears too. It took a good month and a half (he only went 2 days a week) before he settled down. By the end of the year, I could barely get him to say "bye" to me. Even that was hard, but I was glad that he was comfortable around people other than me. I know it's little consolation, but you'll get there! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteThanks Nichole. It's so rough. It looks like she's the only one that is going to have issues, but that is based on the orientation day we had at the school. All the parents were one room over, so who knows if some of the kids will be as brave on the big day. She'll adjust, we all do.....eventually!
ReplyDeleteI love that you left me such a fabulous comment. It made me happy to read it, well, not happy, but supported.....you know what I mean!