Joy started second grade today.
When she started preschool, she cried and cried and cried. "No more teacher Wendy!" she pleaded, EVERY. GOD-LOVING. DAY.
When she started kindergarten, I was the ONLY mother who had to physically pry her child from her body and sneak away.
In first grade, we started going over the details a week in advance. "And then you're going to walk INto the classroom, right?" "Right." "You'll stay until I put my stuff away, right?" "Right."
This year I was all prepared to park the car and walk her to her classroom. As we neared the school she said, "Oh. Mom, you can just drop me off." "Huh?" "My friends will be outside. You can just drop me off." "Oh. Right. Well. OK, honey."
Now who's the one with separation anxiety?
(P.S. She styled her own hair. And she and Clara got matching hoodies for the first day, as evidenced below.)
3 comments:
Ok that is just too darn cute!!
Don't you love/hate it when they grow up like right in front of you?!
Hang in there Syd!
Go Joy!
yikes. I am not ready to read this. We haven't even started preschool yet and I am already feeling the separation anxiety!
(from me, of course. My son would run off with a band of gypsies if they had cool toys with them!)
I hope the first days have gone well. :)
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