My two year-old started nursery school last week when I started work. She is only there for a few hours and daddy picks her up at lunch time and spends the rest of the day with her and her sister.
Her first week of school was like my first week at work.
Day 1 - excited but nervous and cautious.
Days 2- 5 - ready to take on the world and happy to be there
Her second week of school went like this:
Day 1 - 3 - protested her required attendance in school on the way to school that day. Mass breakdown at school complete with the full body wrap around mommy refusing to let go and sobbing. Just sobbing. Poor baby! Poor me! I was traumatized feeling like I had indeed thrown her to the wolves for the sake of my career and wondered what damage I was doing to her little self.
I did, of course, stick around to see if she would settle down, and she did within a minute, but my heart just hurt nonetheless.
The last two days of this week were not met with tears, thank goodness, and she seems to like school again.
Clearly those first few days this week indicate that the novelty of the new school had worn off.
After five years of being a stay-at-home-mom I am enjoying the working, grown up environment. But I wonder - when will the novelty wear off? When will I have a major tantrum (in my mind at least) protesting the idea of heading into work that day and wanting nothing more than to cuddle with my kiddos?
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womanwearingblack // October 14, 2007 at 12:38 am
Your children will be good. It’s just hard…in fact, I think my children are better citizens of the universe because I public defend every day.
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