Very First Day Of School

even though my baby is not starting school for the first time, this year is significant because she is entering highschool. i think i am prolly just about as nervous as she is!

I can totally relate, my daughter now 7 in 2nd grade, was pretty ready for school as well. I was just happy it was for half a day. She was use to being at home with me as well. Now, she is full day since last year and loves school. I miss her so much, during the day. It will get better, I promise.

My son had went to preschool 3 days a week, so it wasn't too hard for him or me when he started Kindergarten. He was all excited and ready to go, but I was a little apprehensive. He seemed so small, and the school was so big. I was worried he would get lost or the such. We went in the first morning, got him all settled in, and he told me to go home. LOL

Although you framed this discussion around school I did experience a similar circumstance with my son the very first time that he went to summer camp with the boy scouts. I assumed that being away from the familiarity and comforts of home in a strange new environment would bother him. Boy, was I surprised when I showed up mid-week for a parents night and saw the distinct expression of disappointment. Apparently,the elation of that new found independence was so pleasing seeing mom and dad wasn't exactly a thrill.

I about collapsed both times with my sons. They were just babies! The first one, who is 21 now, looked like such a big boy with his backpack. I will never forget it. I was 9 months pregnant (Had my second son 6 days after Kindergarten started) and I waddled out to the stop sign in front of our house and stood there with my son in tears. I was. He wasn't. He had been to preschool but this was big boy school and he had to take a bus! He got on and never looked back and I cried my eyes out. And that day, the bus got lost and didn't bring him home until almost 5 p.m. Talk about a freak out. My second son, who is now almost 17, was sick with seizures before he started school and was on a special diet to control them by the time school started. He wasn't having seizures anymore but he could not TOUCH anything but what I gave him as a lunch and I worried my brains out that they would give him a cookie or he would share his lunch which was weighed and measured exactly. He was FINE. The diet worked out fine, he didn't cheat, he adjusted fine, and I cried for weeks after he left for school. With him, it took me a while because he had been so sick. Thankfully, he is fine now and has been since he was 5 but whew, I won't soon forget either kid starting school. lol.

I take my daughter a week from tomorrow to kindergarten. She did go to daycare/pre-school...however, she never wanted me to leave. I just hope she's better with this. I think it will help that her friend is in her class and I heard this teacher won't let the parents take your kids into the class. She'll make the parents step to the side and have the kids walk in without the parents. I think its a good idea...but I still think its going to be hard on me. Probably more me than on her. lol

I had to take the day off from work the day my daughter started public school. I sat home and cried all day. It was not that she wasn't with me all day because I had no choice but to be a working mom, so nothing really changed in my routine except that I was putting her on the bus instead of taking her to my mother's. But it was just that she was growing up. I had almost as hard a time when she started high school because I knew our time together was growing shorter. Now I'm a grammie and my granddaughter is only six months old I am already planning to be there to spend the day with her mother when she starts school.

I had to take the day off from work the day my daughter started public school. I sat home and cried all day. It was not that she wasn't with me all day because I had no choice but to be a working mom, so nothing really changed in my routine except that I was putting her on the bus instead of taking her to my mother's. But it was just that she was growing up. I had almost as hard a time when she started high school because I knew our time together was growing shorter. Now I'm a grammie and my granddaughter is only six months old I am already planning to be there to spend the day with her mother when she starts school.

my daughter started preschool and i was the same way. i was so nervous for her but she was excited as can be. she was ready early the first day and bugged me every five minutes if it was time to leave yet. when we got there she managed to let me take one picture and then that was it she was in the door and went to play. I didn't do too bad, i got a little teary eyed as i drove away. when i went to pick her up i was expecting her to come running to us all excited to see us...ha!..instead she gave me the grumpiest look. she had had so much fun she didn't want to go home and she was ticked off at us that we had come to take her home. we finally got her to come with us, but she wouldnt talk to us the whole way home and wouldn't tell us how her day went. i think it was almost harder to have her that mad at me lol. finally she got over it and told us about her day. she really likes school and i'm happy for her.

i do not have a kid of my own but I have experience with my nephew and nice and they are like my kid. Now they both are very smart and in exactly the same way, they surprised me on their first day of school, just before get into the school they just stsrted to say good bye and see you and did not even saw me ran away inside the school building. I think these days kids are much more maure and smart than we used to be.

That's exactly what I feel when my son go to his nursery room last 2004, he had'nt been in any day care center before so im thinking that he might afraid of going to school and he will cry, but he did not. Instead happy of seeing more children around him. Maybe he is a bit used of it leaving him and playing around alone with only his nanny around. Because before he start his schooling I am the one who look for the job. From the moment I get pregnant to him i didnt worked until he reaches the age of 3 the two of us only in the house always. And you know what during my first weeks on my job he go with me at the office. And on the first time that I left him at home both of us crying while im leaving even im in the office I keep on thinking him and cant control my tears. That's why when he first go to school its normal for both of us being separated.

Hi my youngest stats on Tues. I think we will both do just fine. I have had in in pre school so I am sure she will be fine with kindergarten. I do remember my oldest childs first day. He was a mommys boy and did not want to go to school. I ended up spending the first few days watching him from the hall. Then he was fine. I try to make it as fun as possible.

Mine weren't too sad to go in. They've been watching their older siblings go to school for so long they were excited... Chelsea was a little sad but not too sad. Amber could have cared less that I was leaving her!