1. I dropped Sophie off at Kindergarten this morning and she broke down at the classroom entrance. Following our plan with the teacher, I said my good byes and left. Madame Styles extricated Sophie from me. As of late, she is finding Mondays very hard.
2. One of the parents who was watching this little drama told me her son did the same and found that it was easier if someone else took him to school. Bingo.
3. Drove to my office and called the daycare and said that going forward I will be dropping Sophie off at daycare at 7:50am (ugh) each day and she can ride the daycare van into school. Our experience has been that this is a much easier transition.
4. Deal with work, a staffing issue at the daycare (a long story), and go to yoga (ahhhhh....).
5. Come home and once dinner and playtime is wrapped up, ask Sophie if she wants to review her little french readers. So far so good. However, since I took French many years ago my pronounciation is gawd-awful and seems to annoy and upset Sophie. I can't tell her how to pronounce "coeur" which is heart in French. I end up saying a bastardized version that sounds like "sewer".
6. Needing a little help, I call her teacher at home. Emily helps me with the pronouciation and I put Sophie on the phone with her, so we can move on. Emily also clarifies for me that the children aren't expected to know how to read this particular reader as it is definitely one of the more challenging ones. She reassures me that I'm doing fine by just encouraging the reading.
7. Spend 15 minutes finding a 'etoile' (star) for Sophie to bring to school for "e" words. Much debating back and forth from Sophie about what would make for an appropriate picture to bring to school.
8. Spend another 15 minutes penning our letter to Santa. And another few minutes decorating the letter. Sophie takes issue with the Christmas note paper I'm using for the letter.
9. A quick chapter in our book that we've been reading where sadly I was so exhausted I deleted sections (bad mommy). Sophie complains that there are not enough pictures but promptly perks up when we hit some drama in the story.
I'm not sure if I'll surive until she's 18.
I was just going to say, my friend had the same issue where Mondays were tough for her daughter. When daddy started taking her to school things got infinitely better.
ReplyDeleteSo I'm glad you found a solution even if it means getting her there so early.
The things we do for our children :0)
I loved "All of a Kind family" books when I was younger.
ReplyDeleteAs Mary Jo said, the things we do for our children. I will offer this, the challenges that you have will ebb a bit and you'll develop strategies that work for you both. Hang in there.