Female Forum

It’s the day nearly every parent dreads isn’t it? Your little angel’s first day at school. You’ve spent weeks buying the uniform and the new shoes and now the big day is here. More often than not, it’s the parent who is more worried than the child.!

I know I was. When my eldest started at his school he used to get picked up on a coach. So the first day I went with him and my dad followed behind in the car to bring me home. Well I needn’t have worried. He didn’t care. He went straight in and found the toys and got on with it. It was daft old mum who was in tears.

It was the same when my daughter had to change schools. I went in the playground with her for the first week and the classroom. Then at hometime I’d be standing outside straining my neck to see her through the window. She was fine though, again it was me who was a mess not her.

When my youngest started school I was the same again. He just looked so small and lost and I felt terrible.

Were any of you as bad as this? Did your child skip happily into school whilst you were a jibbering wreck? Did they come home full of happy tales to tell while you’d been pacing up and down all day just watching the clock until hometime?

I can’t imagine what I will be like, last September I was in bits when my kid brother went to school for his first time so never mind when I have one of my own. I took a days holiday from work so I could be there when he was dropped of and picked up and I do remember lots of teary mums too including my own.

Like most kids though he just got on with it, he had the time of his life by the sounds of it too.

Awwwwwwwwwww Kez ya big softie. I know how you felt and it’s awful isn’t it? Thing is we do worry far more than them I think. To them it’s just a great big adventure. To us it’s the end of the world as we send them off into this big scary place with these fierce looking teachers who shout all day.

I am going to be a nervous wreck next year when my youngest starts secondary school. He’s already feeling nervous about it. It doesn’t help that his big sister has told him about some of the scary teachers. She only does it to wind him up.