After nearly two years of being at home with daddy, my little guy is going to daycare next week.
Now, I hate to really whine about this because I know a ton of you took your babies to daycare when they were teeny tiny babies, and as a matter of fact, Elizabeth was in daycare from the time she was 3 months old until she was nearly 5... but this is different.
Elizabeth was a very social baby and got even more social as she grew up. She loved school and everyone in it.
Colby is not so social. I am faced with the Nature V Dad issue... is he anti social because that is the way God made him, or is he anti social from two years of watching Sportscenter, Race Day, and his dad in his underwear on fastbass.com??? A tricky scientific problem, I will hand you that!
But now, we are throwing him to the sharks, in the hopes that he will learn to swim... (or throwing him to the toddlers to see if he will learn to socialize... whatever!) It is very upsetting for me, because I used to work in a daycare, and I had a little boy in my class (we will call him M. Manson, to protect his identity) that I really had a hard time dealing with. When I saw his mother pull in in the mornings, I seriously wanted to cry. He was disruptive to the class, mean to the other kids, sneaky, disobedient.... If he were absent, we all had a calm nice day... when he was there, it was 9 hours of fighting, crying, biting, etc... And I don't want Colby to be someone else's M. Manson!
The first week is Prescreening Week. Which means, after 5 days, they have the option of telling me my kid is horrible and they don't want him... just the thought makes me break out in a sweat. I explained to her that he has never been in a structured environment (unless you call being quiet when Jerry Springer is on "structured") and that it will be a bit of an adjustment to him. She laughed and said that they were used to that, and not to worry, she is sure he will be fine.
I forgot to mention that he goes into a horrible screaming freakout when anyone sings "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star".
This really sucks. I am really going to have a hard time with this transition. I am hoping his transition will go easier than mine.
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I'm hoping this all goes well. I doubt they'll kick him out.. he's too stinkin' cute!
Misty flips out when I sing "You are my sunshine" She sceams, puts her fingers to her lips, and says "shhhhh donnadothaata!"
PS: Tag!
Good luck! I'm sure he'll be fine. A 5-day trial period would freak me too--I'm always expecting people like day care workers and doctors to be judging me.
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