{"id":15642,"date":"2017-09-08T19:26:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T02:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladyslittleloves.com\/?p=15642"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:27:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T00:27:06","slug":"the-urge-to-protect-and-the-first-day-of-school-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingwithlady.com\/2017\/09\/the-urge-to-protect-and-the-first-day-of-school-2017.html","title":{"rendered":"The Urge to Protect (And the First Day of School 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"
The day my babies were born I was given an overwhelmingly powerful urge to protect them.<\/p>\n
What this has looked like as they have grown\u00a0is me wanting to protect them from falling on their faces when learning to walk, ensuring everything was okay after getting their\u00a0feelings hurt, helping them navigate the dangers of the world around them, and wanting to take any sign of fear, sadness or anxiety away.<\/p>\n
I am a rational person and am fully aware that protecting them in every way isn’t what is best for them, but it doesn’t mean that deep down I don’t\u00a0want<\/em> to catch them at every fall!<\/p>\n
At the end of last year, my son expressed a big fear of “big kid” school. He had watched his sister reading the entire year while bringing home math homework and declared that since he didn’t know how to do those things that he didn’t want to go to that school.<\/p>\n
It didn’t matter that I reassured him in every way possible that kids weren’t expected to know those things upon entering Kindergarten, he was still anxious about it.<\/p>\n
The school also announced at the end of the year that it would be moving to all-day-kindergarten instead of the half-day we had been used to. This news took me by complete shock as I had fully expected to have my boy home with me come 11:45 every day, but the option just wasn’t there anymore as it was now mandated by the state.<\/p>\n
His anxiety over this school lasted through the entire summer, and at about the halfway mark I started to become worried myself.<\/p>\n
What if he isn’t ready? What if he hates it? Are we making a mistake? Full-day seems really long for a Kindergartner. Maybe we should hold him a year. He LIKES being home with me. Can’t we just have one more year? What is the right thing to do?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n