I had to write this down before the freshness of it fades
away.
Sid has entered the schooling phase. June 4th,
2015 was his first day at school. Kids Castle Pre-school. Nursery.
Sid was very excited to go to school. After all, this is
what he has been hearing from a year now. The school had conducted a parents’
orientation programme a week earlier to make the parents aware of the do’s and
don’ts for the child to get settled in the school. I was so confident about my
child that I had only half-listened to them. So I drop Sid to the school and he
got so excited to see the slides inside that he rushed inside and before we
could realize the gate was closed. He couldn’t even say bye to me and off I go
to my home. After one hour, I come back to pick him up and I see an all-weeping
Sid shedding tears from every hole on his face. I was so very surprised to see
him crying for me. He saw me, he hugged me, and he repeatedly kept saying, “I
was looking for you mumma, I didn’t see you mumma, I got so sad.” A thunderbolt
struck me with a message: My child is still a kid. Somehow, with all his
conversational skills, I had assumed that he has grown up now and can
understand things at a more matured level. This was followed by a couple more
days of I-don’t-want-school monologues. God must have given this for my
over-confidence.
I am happy to say that Sid is well settled in to his
school now. However, he doesn’t like the idea of going to another school,
college, or office when he becomes a “big boy”.
May God bless him with an enjoyable and worth-remembering
school time!
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