We had a major breakthrough today. My sweetE never wants to go to preschool. He wants to stay home, with me. Except that I am going to work and nobody would be home. The entire way to school, he complains. Walking up to the door, he wants to go home. Up until recently he would produce tears. And latch onto me with a death grip. And then when Ducky picked him up he would be having a blast.
But today was different. It started out the same. I don't want to go to school. I want to stay home. But in the car something happened. The happy switch flipped or something. He announced as we were going past sweetP's school, "I like my school. It is real fun."
Oh happy day. He likes his school. He admits to liking his school. He wants to go today. Maybe it was the sparkly juice aka sparkling cider. I signed up for juice duty for their friendship feast and thought sparkling cider would be a fun treat.
When we got to school he happily went inside. He didn't get upset when I had to head to kitchen in search of a bottle opener. We did our routine. I put his name tag on. I hung up his coat. We found his name at the table. I gave him a hug and a kiss. Do not skip the hug and kiss step with this kid. It is the end of the world as he knows it if those are missed. Or if he thinks they were missed. I asked him if he is going to wave at mommy at the door. He says yes. I did my crazy wave (highly exaggerated and animated) at the door and he waved back with a big grin on his face.
I am on cloud nine. I don't have to leave with a crying child inside. Even though I know he is fine by the time I get to the car. Today he realized that he likes his school. Today he is happy and so am I.
3 comments:
"do not skip the hug and kiss step with this child."
that is the kind of kid i want!!
my nephew sobbed every day at preschool. every single day. for months. all day. god, that was hard.
but he's in first grade now, and loving it.
i'm so happy for you and SweetP!
This is such a big hurdle!!! My daughter cried for a while in nursery school, then stopped, but I don't think she said a word to the teacher all year! She cried again when she was four, but the teacher was great at getting her involved, so she stopped crying by the end of class (3 hours, twice a week). Kindergarten...she cried every day. I can't really blame her either, her K. teacher wasn't very nice. Sad. It has been a long time since she has cried at school, as far as I know. Funny, too, now she and my son long for the days before Kindergarten when they could spend the day playing, only went to 'school' two days a week, and didn't have any homework.
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