What this young boy learned on his first day of kindergarten, and he was, eager to start school too, imagine that!!! Translated…
On School, the Kids are Not the Only Ones with the Doubts, Parents Have Doubts too; What are We, Learning in School Anyways? Are All Children Fitted to Start School Early in Life? Let’s Follow the Mom, Who’d Accompanied Her Own Son on These Quests, Once a Month, to Visit an Assortments of Issues We as Parents Might Face with Our Kids as They Start School.
In a blink of an eye, my four-year-old son had been going to school for a hundred days, I’d flipped to the very first journal entry on his first day of school, there’s, not just the mixtures of emotions, but, I’d felt, overwhelmed with emotions………
Several friends had told me, the first day of school, either the parents were unwilling to see their young get older, or that the children are, crying, unwilling to let us go, there were also, children who wanted to prove that they’re, independent enough, telling the parents to leave, and told the parents NOT to be the first to show by the gates as school lets out! And now, I’m, about, to be the star of this very show, I naturally became, curious of how my son was going to react. We all got up at 7:30 and had breakfasts together as a family, and by eight, we all left home together, my son was the youngest child in the entire class, born in August, and he’s, naturally, smaller in size than the rest, but, it’d not, put a damper on his excitement of starting his first day, he’d only reminded me to not forget to pick him up at noon.
Through the window, I, along with other parents, waited eagerly to see the first class our young attended, I saw him kept interrupting the teacher, and after the teacher reminded him to raise his hands, he’d started, raising his hand repeatedly, and before I’d glared at him, to behave, the parents were asked, to leave the hallways, and so, I can only, carry my unsettled heart home.
Three hours flew by, I’d returned back to the class, and found that my son’s expressions had, changed compared to when I’d left him in the morn, but, the teacher who’d needed to look after the other children didn’t have time to talk to me, on our way home, my son told me, “The teacher yelled at me.” On the first day! I’d gently prodded, “Why?”, my son bobbed his head, then told me, “I forgot”. “You don’t even remember why you were, yelled at?”, “I forgot, mommy, am I the worst kid in the class?”, I’d felt a bit awful upon hearing him state that, and I’d, used my verifications to tell him, that NO child is especially bad.
What do I do? If I’d immediately gone to the teacher, would I be misinterpreted as being too protective? Pretending that I’d not heard my son, it’ll only cause, internal injuries to myself, besides, my son already, forgot why he was, yelled at, and what if, he will be, yelled at for the same thing tomorrow? I’d asked for help in my friends group, and, someone who’d had contact with the school teacher told me, that communicating with the teacher isn’t a bad thing, so long as I’d empathized with her situation, and holds the attitude of “we’re here, to help the child/student solve the problems”, then, nothing will go wrong.
I’d bore with it until four in the afternoon, I’d, estimated that all the students had, left school, I’d called up the teacher, and, worked hard, to keep my calm, and asked her what had happened in the class, just as I’d expected, my too talkative son had, interjected into the teacher’s lessons to the class, I’d explained to her my son’s temperament, and told her I’d, reminded him on it. I know the teachers must be fed up with the parents’, “I know what you’re going through!”, after all, the teachers’ hardships are, caused by our children………but before I hung up the phones with my son’s school teacher, I’d still said, genuinely, “Teacher, you are, hardworking!”
At bedtime, I’d asked my son what he’d learned in school today? “Keep my mouth shut”, he’d, told me.
And so, this, is WHAT education is doing to your young, because some kids are, expressive, and they have this tendency, to talk, talk, talk, and maybe at home, it’s all right, but not so much so at school, because in school, we are, in a class together, and, sometimes, when you talk too much, you are, disruptive to the other children, and, hopefully, things will turn out okay for his boy in school, because, at this young an age, the kids are, easily, deterred, they can become, withdrawn, if you don’t use the right methods, to ask them to stop doing something, besides, isn’t being curious what a child should be??? And, in this sense, the schools are, killing that for your young!