Comments on: August Reports Put on Hold

By: Tricia

Tricia — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:21:18 +0000

Joane – thanks for the words of support and sharing your story. It was discussed to have my son in speech therapy, but the school officials have just said he is a late bloomer. He is just behind. To make things a little worse, he will not be 5 for a few months, so he is younger than most of the other kids. Taking the advice of his preschool teacher, we signed him up for kindergarten. She didn’t have any reservations with him going this year. I hope we made the right decision.

CC – I just wrote about it…it was harder on me LOL.

By: CC

CC — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:32:40 +0000

You are not freaking out for nothing, my oldest are twins and they started school a few weeks ago and it was much harder on me than them I think!

By: Joane

Joane — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:59:58 +0000

My third child (out of four) could not make himself understood in Kindergarten. One day, he was standing in front of the class with tears rolling down his eyes because no one could understand what he said. We could; no one else could. It turned out he needed speech therapy, which he went through until high school. He was shy in school but thrived at scholastics. I am very happy to tell you that he had excellent speech therapists at his public schools, and he graduated from high school at the top. He then went on to graduate from a very, very prestigious college and has a great job making far more money than his talkative mother. Happily married, he just bought his first house at 24. And he is a happy employee of a software company – and gives software demos all the time. With no shyness. Hang in there. He will do as well as YOU do.

By: Tricia

Tricia — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:22:26 +0000

t – thanks, I changed it

tiredbuthappy – thanks, glad I’m not alone with the freaking-out-mommy-thing. I’m sure I’ll make it through it…it’s just sooo hard.

By: tiredbuthappy

tiredbuthappy — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:56:03 +0000

Tricia,
Good luck tomorrow! I think that’s a great solution, to put him on the bus but meet him at the school to help him get to his classroom the first time.

My son is moving up from the toddler classroom to preschool at his daycare this week. I’m freaking out too. There will be 3 teachers for 20 kids, instead of 3 teachers for 12 kids. And over there the kids are just so…big. He is very talkative and assertive, but I am worried about not having the same rapport with the teachers that I have now. This is our 3rd daycare in 2.5 years, so I’ve been really happy to have finally found teachers for him that I love. And now we have to leave them!

Anyway, I guess we all lived through the first day of preschool, and kindergarten, and junior high, and high school, and our first job, and so on. Our sons will survive too. The question is, will WE survive?!

By: t

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:48:34 +0000

It’s spelled kindergarten