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SAHM's...when your kids started preschool
DD has been home with me for the past 3 years and is starting preschool in the fall. I'm the one having anxiety over it! It's only 2 days a week, 2 hours each day, but I've never left her with "strangers" before. Any tips to calm my nerves? Anything I should be preparing her for?
Re: SAHM's...when your kids started preschool
Lanna turned 4 the day she started school, but I can say for certain I was more anxious about it than she was. The only tears that were shed were my own! I work 3 days a week, but I had never left her with a stranger before that. And even though I trusted that she was in good hands b/c I spent time researching, I was still nervous. And it was also just a bittersweet milestone to be sending our little girl to school.
With Lanna, we talked a bit about it, but I tried not to make too big of a deal about it. She's like me in that she gets nervous when she overthinks things. I put the date on her calendar and reminded her that it was coming up occassionally, but that's all. She was excited that she got to bring a treat in (for her bday), so the focus that morning was on that. Then when I dropped her off, the teacher immediately engaged her in coloring and that was it. I didn't sneak out (I said bye and kissed her quickly), but I didn't linger. Although there were days she complained about going, she never once made a scene at dropoff. It's hectic sometimes getting her there on time, but it's worth while b/c she has learned so much and she loves the interaction with the other kids.
Basically I'm saying that I'd try your best not to make too much of a big deal out of it. It'll just be harder on both of you
Hopefully she makes the transition easily, but if she doesn't you'll just have to cross that bridge when you come to it.
I was going to start DS1 2 days a week this fall but since he wont be 3 until Sept. 6, he isn't eligible for any of the preschools I've found. We have to wait a whole year because his birthday is 5 days late. Oh well, in a year we should be able to afford the preschool I want to send him to and not have to settle for a lower choice, albeit it still a good preschool.
I did look at some of the 2 year old preschools too....but I decided their classrooms weren't really preschool.
DD's bday is 9/7 -- I feel your pain! We found a school that let her start with the 4yos and luckily they have a step up program that is in between preschool and kindergarten, so she's not repeating the same cirriculum twice.