School started last week... Tyler started school last week. Yes. School. He is in VPK which is only half days right now, thank god! I don't know what I would do if he had to leave me for that much time each day. Heck I don't know what Lil would do, three hours without him 5 days a week is rough for her. She keeps telling me how much she misses him when he's gone.
The first week of school went good. Tyler didn't cry when we dropped him off or anything. He simply found a puzzle and started playing. We had to almost beg him for hugs and kisses goodbye. And no I didn't have a huge breakdown, surprisingly. I didn't even cry, I did however have to stop myself multiple times from turning around to go pick him back up and I have not stopped counting down the minutes each day that he is there.
Week number 2 has been a little more difficult. The first week was simple, I dropped him off in the classroom, he found toys to play with and he was good. Now of course life can never stay so simple. So now the school says we cant walk him to his class anymore. I have to drop him off with all the other car riders. My kid is 4 and I'm supposed to just pull up to the school while someone pulls my kid out of the car? Ha! They must be CRAZY! It's like retraining your kid to think that talking to strangers is ok. You tell him for however long not to get in cars with strangers and now a stranger opens his door and expects him to hop out willingly? I think not!
Man oh man. Not only will he refuse to get out of the car but I have to pull forward and park my care so that I can pull this poor little boy from the car kicking and screaming. Talk about a way to make him hate going to school! Not to mention the fact that it upsets me and Lily and one poor man had his testicles trusted up into his stomach from a pretty hard kick from my kid. Well that will serve them, right? I bet that guy will think twice next time before he tries to carry a kid away from his mommy kicking and screaming.
I knew I shouldn't have walked him to class at all. I should have just dropped him off with the car riders from the start. Now he is forever going to expect to be walked to class and each day he will be extremely pissed when it doesn't happen. Yeah go ahead and tell me he will get used to it...I know he will, the question is how long until he gets used to it? I have a feeling it will be a long while. My kid does not like change.
So for now until however long I get to watch as someone drags my kicking and screaming with tears running down his eyes kid away from me. And each day it will pull at my heart a little more. I know that I cant really do anything besides throw a tempter tantrum in the front office about needing to walk my kid to class which probably wouldn't work anyways. But what am I supposed to do? They should have some way to make it easier on the newbie students. Am I right? Instead they just thrust them full on into this strange new way of things expecting to not be kicked in the balls when someone protests.
I guess the moral of this story is that I know my kid is a rebel and he will not be pushed down by conformity. I should be proud of that right?
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