7 days until school starts! Let's chat about the worries, fears, elations and all!!!

[momof2inohio]

My one and only baby starts all-day kindergarten just before Labor Day.
If you ask him about it, he seems uninterested, but he's been unusually clingy and emotional. He loved pre-school, but that was a half-day program and he had lots of friends there. He won't know anyone at his kindergarten.

I'm trying not to be emotional --- at least not when anyone can see me. I watch him frolic and play and think about how naive and innocent he is. I know it's gradual, but once he starts in a school system, he'll have to face peer pressure and grades and reaching performance standards and all kinds of stuff he doesn't have to worry about now. I get sad thinking that this most carefree phase of his life will be over. I know lots of wonderful experiences await, but I really enjoyed watching this part of his life.
Okay, I'm going to stop now before I start crying.

((HUGS)) I remember when both of my kids started Kindergarten. They were ready but I was not! I still miss having them around during the school year and they are 9 and 12!!! They start school in a week and I am wishing we had a few more weeks of summertime!!

[cody82414]

today is the day!!

tears as I prepare the boys' backpacks