It took 5 days. (Five LOOONG and barf filled days!) Finally today
Toby was ready to go back to school.
Apart from falling asleep on the school bus on the way home, the
transition back seemed smooth and seamless. He had a great day and happily sat down to dinner with
us afterwards, eager to fill us in on life at school
We had heard about the usual – who was there, who wasn’t
etc. when all of a sudden his eyes got big and he dropped his fork to tell us
the EARTH shattering new he had just remembered.
“Mommy,” he said very seriously, “You won’t believe it. October is GONE. Everything October has FINISHED! Now there’s this NEW thing and we’re on
the 5th.”
When I asked what this “new thing” was he shook his head in
disgust. “ I don’t know…all I know is that it’s the FIFTH. I guess I’ll have to listen more carefully
tomorrow.”
And with that he picked his fork up and attended to his
stir-fry.
You forget how important it is to make smooth transitions
with these vulnerable little sponges.
I’m sure Mrs. Shields had made a big production of November 1st,
preparing the kids for the NEW month and the NEW themes with the ritual
changing of the calendar. Toby’s
favourite thing about kindergarten is the dependably predictable calendar and
so far, his short career as a JK student has only included the ONE transition
from September to October.
Here I was spending all of my mommy energy making sure he was fever
free, hydrated and nourished enough to have the strength to go back to school
when really what he needed was a heads up that it was a NEW month called NOVEMBER.
They should really include stuff like this in our mommy
manuals, don’t you think?
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