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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m nervous about my kid starting preschool. She’s a COVID baby who has been at home with a parent or a relative since she was born, and I’m so nervous about sending her off away from us! It’ll be good for her but wow it’s hard just thinking about it right now. We’re trying to put her in more activities and then summer camps to get her ready but I’m thinking of next school year with a mix of joy and dread. [/quote]

[b]The biggest challenge for clingy kids who know only home and family or private nannies is, in my experience, not the kids' ability to adapt to PS3. The issue is parents - as it almost always is with kids. [/b]My kid cried their eyes out at drop off every day for a week or two. I reminded myself that my kid was going to be fine and they were taking their cues from me. I hugged them, but then told them I'd see them at pick up and walked away. Most kids who react this way are only doing it to manipulate parents. Once they figure out they are going to go back every day they relax and usually love pre-school. I watched in horror parents who were in tears as they left their kids in class each day and then had the audacity to say their kids weren't ready; as if their behavior wasn't the driver of the way the kids reacted.

I'm sure lots of DCUM readers will take offence to this, but parents who say "my kid isn't ready" are projecting. Your kid will be fine. If this is emotional for you and you need to melt down for the first few days/weeks, do yourself and your kid a favor and DON"T do it in front of them.

P.S. PS3 teachers are inhuman gods. I cannot imagine having to deal with a classroom full of 3 and 4 year olds every day. I used to volunteer for an hour or two and I went straight home for bourbon![/quote]

Truer words were never spoken.  A kid was pulled out of my kid's PK3 and sent back to in-home care at the beginning of this year and the mom said something along the lines of "every day he comes home and describes a way in which he has been invalidated or unsupported in his growth."  Her kid, who we met through several pre-preK meetups, was really shy around other kids and borderline non-verbal even with his mom.  It was the wildest case of projection I've ever seen, but if she feels better keeping him home then so be it.[/quote]

Oh FFS! A little unsupporting is critical to their development! I wonder what the invalidation was. Maybe they wanted him to sit criss cross applesauce?[/quote]

I hear this, but also had a terrible experience with DCPS PK. In our case, the whole class was struggling and the teacher is notorious. (Like you would tell parents of older kids that your kid had her and they would say “I’m sorry.”) it really soured me on the DCPS PK experience. [/quote]

PP whose kid is still in this class - it's the class other teachers at the school finagle to get their kids into.  The teacher and para are both wonderful.  Also this kid was only there for something like 7 class days - the mom simply wasn't ready to let him out of her sight.  [/quote]

I believe you. Just still bitter about putting my kid through a horrible year. Doesn’t sound like our scenarios are similar at all.[/quote]

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