She’ll Kick Me When I’m Down, Too
Posted By jayna on September 19, 2009
I don’t know how she’ll find it in her heart to forgive me. I’m terrible and neglectful. Trivializing her greatest adventure yet. I’ll never live it down!
I forgot to blog about my daughter’s very first day of preschool!!
Oh, the horrors!!! She’ll hate me forever!!
Or not.
In fact, I’m sure that if she had even the slightest grasp of the situation, she’d be all “Meh. Whatever.” In other words, she’d react about the same as she did with the whole school thing.
We went for orientation, and she was all “Peace, dudes. I see toys.” Then came the first day, and she was like “Yo, ma, whatcha still doin’ here. Beat it and let me dominate these other kids.” Day two, and she didn’t even look back. She may have even flipped me off or something as I got in her way to say goodbye. In fact, later, I damn near had to pry her off the teacher to take her home.
Yeah. That’s a great feeling. “No really, teacher lady, we do treat her well at home. She does get interaction. The fact that she’s wrapped herself around your leg is just so out of character. Honest.”
Thank goodness I’ve only signed her up for two days a week. I’m not sure my fragile ego could take much more rejection than that.
It's those times I'm not sure if it's easier for them to get upset or just be glad you're gone. It breaks my heart when they don't want us to go and get upset about it yet at least you know they care. Then when they're so happy for you to go it's like "wow they don't need me anymore"
I'm glad she adjusted well though…adorable pics..I love the last one!
Cooper approaches preschool the same way, and while I am thrilled that it isn't a battle (in any way, shape or form) to get him to go into his classroom each day, it still makes me sad . . . is his preschool teacher so much better than me that he is literally shaking with excitement to get inside?! Someone once told me that it was a sign that he was well-adjusted . . . yeah . . . that didn't make me feel any better about it.
Maggie is the same way when I drop her at daycare- even the new one she just started last week! She's all, Later Lady! and runs off to play, barely even looking back. Part of me is a little sad, but mostly I take it as a sign that she is comfortable. And she always squeals and runs toward me when I arrive to pick her up, so that makes me feel a little better ;)