September 12, 2011
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Starting Pre-school!
I can’t believe I’m typing these words, but Mr. T will be starting preschool on Wednesday! He’ll be going 3 mornings a week this year. We went to the parents night tonight and that really made things hit home. We met his teachers and looked at his classroom. I’m a little sad that they don’t have cubbies in his room…they have hooks instead. Which means he’ll (and by he, it will probably mean ME) have to lug his bike helmet to and from school instead of just being able to leave it there. Same goes for snow gear when it snows
Tyler is not too excited. He whines and cries every time we try to talk about school. Then he asks if one of us can stay with him in school. We tell him that we have to leave to do something else but we’ll always come back to get him. He didn’t like that answer…more crying. It’s stressing me out. He hasn’t even gone yet and he’s already crying.
During the meeting tonight, the teacher told us to talk to her in private if our child had issues with any of the following three things: 1) Separation anxiety 2) Potty Training 3) Food allergies. While everyone else seemed to be lined up for allergies alone, we had to talk to her about 1 and 2. She took notes at least. T is pretty much potty trained, sort of. He is basically just lazy. He knows how to pee on the potty. He knows WHEN he has to pee on the potty. He just doesn’t always tell us because he’s in the middle of something and doesn’t want to leave. If we bring him, he’ll always pee.
I feel a little nervous about him being the youngest one in the 3 year old class. After talking to some of the parents tonight, some of the kids will be at least a year older than him because they decided to hold their kid back a year since they were near the cutoff age. (I know this is a growing trend and it’s a really popular thing to do in my area especially for boys). There is a huge difference between 3 and 4+. T will actually still be 2 when he starts since he doesn’t turn 3 til October. I know “academically” he’s fine…but I just hope they don’t pick on him because he’s smaller and younger.
I really hope he grows to enjoy it and makes new friends! He’s such a funny kid at home…I hope others get to see that side of him too.
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Hope it will be a smooth transition for him. Happy first day of school to T on Wednesday!
All the Xanga kids are starting preschool. My son loves being around older kids. Don’t worry about him being the youngest in the class.
OOO…hope you everything goes well!!
my dtg starting school next week too!! and yah she already says she doesn’t want to go, unless mommy goes in and play with her! =( and same with our class…it’s a mixture of age…bella would be the youngest =( she’s 2 and abit…and there will be 3, 4 yr olds too. One thing i ‘m kind of worried about..cuz she already plays with older children..and cuz she’s the youngest, they always want to leave her out, and tell her she can’t do things cuz she’s younger, and she can’t touch this, play with that, and can’t do this…etc. so she’s kind of pissed off sometimes..the other day she held it in for the whole 2 hr at a playdate..and finally blew up cuz they were so bossy and slapped a girl in the face..sigh…so i was hoping at school the kids were her age..but i guess not =(