School was GREAT! We got there super early because I wasn’t sure how long it would take to drive, park and walk in. As soon as we walked in the class, Cole could care less about us. Drew and Cole were pulling toys off the shelves and ecstatic to be there. Paige was clinging to me and wasn’t really branching out. The teacher gave the parents the option to stay the full time or leave whenever they felt comfortable. Since today was a shorter time than normal, we chose to leave after five minutes. There’s no point in staying and confusing the kids for the next school day which is a bit longer than today’s class. Cole was like “see ya”, Drew was not happy to leave all the toys, and Paige lost it. I sat in the office to see how long it would take her to settle down and was thrilled to hear the screaming stop after four minutes. Drew and I took off to Starbucks feeling pretty good about the whole situation. Apparently while we were frolicking Paige would cry on and off the whole hour of preschool. When we went back to get them, Paige was playing with animals on the floor and Cole was vacuuming in the corner. I’ve never seen Cole lose his mind as much as he did when it was time to leave. He was screaming and kicking and flailing so much I couldn’t even carry him out. Add to that a tired Drew that didn’t want to leave either and I was panicking. Paige was the only one ready to go. I told her I had her precious Starbucks ice water waiting for her in the car. Thank God for Starbucks because she was so willing to go the car that I asked her to walk Drew out and she said “Paige get Drew”, ran over grabbed his hand, and walked him out to the car in the parking lot. I carried a screaming mad Cole who proceeded to cry for the whole way home and about ten minutes after we got home. If he acts like this every time we leave school, I’m going to have issues. I may have to bring a stroller? strait jackets? a bouncer?? Between Cole screaming, Paige crying on and off for an hour, and Drew feeling very left out and upset, we had a nap at 11:15 today. Our normal naptime is around 12:30. Wow.
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WOW! I hope it gets better.
I’m glad they enjoyed school (After a little bit of an emotional breakdown). I hope it gets better, my son just LOVED preschool last year and he would cry just about every time I came to get him. After a month or so it was less hysteric, but occasionally I had to drag him to the car screaming “no,no,no I dont want to go home!” while carrying his little sister as well…FUN FUN FUN! I’m hoping that since he’s 4, this year will be better. 1 trick that helped us was taking him to the school’s playground for about 20 minutes after school, or until all the other kids had been picked up, and then he didn’t put on such a show.