My little baby

[Sarah-b]

Today, my little girl started proper big school.
She is only 4 and a half. She looked so little and vulnerable in her uniform.
Legally, she isn't required to start until September, but the schools like to get them in and get the associated funding.
I do hope she is having a good day. I can only sit and wonder - can't phone the teacher and ask like i used to do when she was with the childminder!!
Sarah (paranoid mother).

[Sarah-b]

[Kerry]

i clicked on 'reply' but then didn't know what to put as i don't have children!! i bet she'll tell you all about it later, but you're bound to be nervous, only natural!
hopefully she'll be the one having a whale of a time with other kids while you sit and worry! (no help, i know!)
my friends' little boy started at 4 and a half, and he is quite a reserved little boy, unlike his sister, who's very forward. school is something he really enjoys now, it has improved his talking a lot, and he's grown in confidence.

[eileen]

Aaawww Sarah I remember the feeling well!! You get all choked up, get nervous for them, worry yourself sick, can't settle, the house is soooo empty without them in it. You wonder......Are they missing you?......Are they fitting in?.......Do they like the teacher? - and guess what!! They haven't missed you one little bit!!!
Hope your daughter has had a wonderful first day.

Isn't being a mother wonderful.  ;) ;)

Eileen.

[Palustris]

Now I have seen it from the other side, not admittedly with 4.5 year olds, but with ones transferring from Infant to Junior school.
Ah the days of little girls weeping buckets cos they were going in to my class with that horrible big brute who stood on touch lines and shouted at people.
And then watching them go home giggling at the end of the day cos that bully was sooooooo funny!
Do I miss it. Not one little bit, now.

[rosebud]

That reminds me so much of when my children were small , that first day who would want to relive it, not any mothers i know.When you go to meet the little darlings they have hardly missed you , all of a sudden
miss becomes very important i can remember "but miss said"after only a couple of weeks so dont be to worried Sarah. :)
do tell us tomorrow how she got on. :D

[Mothy]

Sarah-b,

our little girl is spending her 1st night tonight in her big bed in her new bedroom. She has had to vacate the nursery room that has been hers for almost 2 years to make way for our pending arrival. She was sooo excited and then scared when she finally had to go to bed and we've been up and down the stairs to check on her and listening out for a bump in case she falls out (God forbid)

What will we be like when she goes to school??
You have my sympathy!
TimJ

[Tulipa]

I hope your little one had a wonderful day.  I work as a classroom assistant in reception and they settle so quickly, even the children who cry when their Mum leaves.  My children all cried but they all love school now.  At our school we do have parents who phone to satisfy themselves that everything is ok and the office staff are quite happy to come and peep for them!  We are all parents and understand how hard it is.  I feel for you, my oldest has just done her GCSEs last summer and that was just as hard, thinking of her sitting such stressful exams!

[Doris_Pinks]

Tulip, mine is doing hers this summer and I am already a wreck! What with coursework and mocks!! In a way I wish it was me sitting the exams for her!! (Though triple science was not my forte!!!)

Poor you Sarah, like all I remember it well! Tears, (all mine!) and the wondering all day if they have missed you at all! But the best thing was the collecting when they used to rush out from school, faces lit up with all the excitement of learning, then the talking all the way home about it all!  Now all I get is the occasional grunt, and what's for dinner Mum!!   DP

[Granny_Smith]

I know exactly what you all mean, and I'm suffering for the grandchildren now. Our 5 year old grandson recently moved house and started at a new school (he had already been going to a school where he used to live). Ohh how I worried all day until we visited him that afternoon, only to find that after initial tears in the morning he was raring to go back the next day and play with all his new friends!!

Once a Mum, always a Mum. (Sigh) It does not get any easier as your children grow up - just a whole new set of problems to worry about.

[Jesse]

Sarah I remember when my son started big school (Sept 2003), I was so nervous and thought of him constantly all day for the first few days (I still think of him now from time to time during the day and wonder how his day is going, I miss his little voice chatting to me all day long  :'(). Silly really because he settled right in at school and loves being there with all his friends, and his teacher is the best thing since sliced bread in his opinion.

I have to go through all that again this year in Sept when my little girl starts school. It's going to be even worse because I won't have a younger child with me at home to distract me.

[Doris_Pinks]

Ah but Jess, the up side is you can spend more time on your veg patch, ALONE!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Sarah-b]

Thanks for all your kind thoughts.
Yes - she had a great first couple of days - so it's all going really well. I am very pleased for her - and feel relieved that I can ease off on the worrying front for the time being. Wondering if she'll realise that she has to go back there next week.
The up side is that on my days off work, I'll be able to get a bit done on the plot cos number 2 child is really quite allotment friendly.

Sarah.

[Mrs Ava]

oooooooo, me bad mum! I wasn't the least bit worried about number one daughter going to school!  She was so ready and is such a little madam that she settled right in and made the place her own!  Ava on the other hand would sit outside the school building all day if he could, watching, keeping his eye on things, and he doesn't know how I pack number one son, who was 4 in October, on the school bus everyday to go to school.  I do think about them during the day, especially if they didn't get a good nights sleep or something happened in the morning before school, and I always leap to the phone when it rings just in case it is the school......but other than that, well, number one son starts big school full time in September, and I can't wait!   ;D

[Wicker]

Youngest g'daughter starts shcool this summer but like her brother and cousins I expect her to go happily as they have all attended preschool nursery.  Their dads had also gone happily to school and I must admit I enjoyed the freedom and only felt guilty when I realised that I didn't feel guilty!!  For myself, to this day I remember hating my first day at school as it was my 5th birthday - but the teacher gave me an (old) penny to cheer me up...