your child's first day of school

OMG that is just too young !! Children in our area don't start school til they are five and even then I found this really hard . My five year old started last week and I couldn't help it , after the bus picked her up I started to cry but at least I got to go back to the house and still have my three year old with me and know that she won't start school for another couple of years . We can put her in playschool which is a couple of hours a day two days a week but that is our choice . I wasn't excited in the least that my little one was starting school although she was beyond thrilled and she loves it . I wasn't happy because I don't like the school because I don't trust them at all . My son was hurt a few years back and will forever have problems due to the fall that resulted from another child who was not even reprimanded , for the rest of his life . It makes me nervous that I now have to trust them with my daughter when I still don't trust my son going off every day and he is now 13 .

YES! My daughter just started full day prek on Tuesday. She is 4 1/2. Her birthday falls a month before the cut off date, so she is a little bit older than most of the other kids. I don't really think that three is too young. We didn't qualify for Head Start, as we were above the income level. We could of sent her to a preschool when she was three, but I already stayed home with her, so I just started teaching her stuff from home. I am doing okay now, but it was very weird for a couple of days. As a parent, I think you don't really know how to feel. I had a combination of excitement, happiness, loneliness, fear, and so forth. I don't really know how to explain it, but when you look at your child standing there with a backback, you just think "wow, how did this happen so quick."