First grade for the littlest Donovan started today.\u00a0 He was nervous.\u00a0 I was nervous.\u00a0 Well, actually, we were both a perfect blend of nervous and excited as we drove in.\u00a0 His teacher is young and energetic and I think they will get along very, very well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When I picked him up, though, the first reality of what school actually is sunk in.\u00a0 He made it to the car without really saying much.\u00a0 Then, as we got in and I asked how his day was and who his new classmates were, he broke into tears.\u00a0 At recess all of his friends from kindergarten (i.e. his old classmates) were all playing with their new classmates.\u00a0 It broke his heart.\u00a0 When I asked him who he played with he said “no one, I sat by myself because everyone said they had new friends”.\u00a0 Which is the point when my heart was broken.\u00a0 I did all the standard parenting things one should do – I told him that first days are hard and that he will make his own new friends in his class but that his kindergarten friends are still his friends too, blah blah blah blah.\u00a0 My intial reaction was to go to the playground and find the little twerps who left him out at recess and sit on them – but I settled for the confidence speech and the hopeful promise of tomorrow.\u00a0 There is nothing like watching your kid deal with social b.s. – partly because as\u00a0a parent, you finally realize how torturous and unnecessary it is and partly because you know how painful it is.<\/p>\n
He’ll get through it just like we all did.\u00a0 In the meantime, I might have to break out my brass knuckles just to flash around at the playground tomorrow…….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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