Charly

    Charly Anne, my big 5 year old, is great! This year she started school, it is half day and we debated sending her to full day. The first few weeks she cried every time I dropped her off and I would literally have to push her through the door, and feeling like an awful mom. I emailed her teacher about volunteering at school and mentioned that Charly loves school but cries everyday, Mrs. Galluzzo says that as soon as they walk through the door she is fine! So on Friday of the first full week of school she gets in the car and is so sensitive, crying about everything, and then she says I don't want to go back to school anymore! I am an open minded person, I try and not let my past scare me in life now. I was abused as a young girl while at school and one of the parents said that her daughter started saying she didn't want to go to school. SO that is the first thing that came to mind, and it freaked me out! And then I talked to her and I remembered to not over react! And over the few months she has gotten better.
   So to sort of back track, Charly started the school year with Mrs. Galluzzo, but due to the amount of kids in full day they needed to move kids around, they divided all the classes into 3, and 1/3 of half day kids were traded with full day students. Charly was moved into Mrs. Musselman's class! To help with the transition (and Charly was still crying at this time) Charly could get a chocolate kiss and so would her other transferring classmates IF Charly did not cry! She did great fortunately. We went from crying, to not crying but no desire to go to the playground, we would just talk about all the backpacks that were lined up and which were cute, or pretty! Then we went into the gate and sat at the tables, and then she went and played one day but only if I held her backpack,she did not want to put it in the pile! She told me we could do a pattern one day she plays and one day she doesn't. We did that for a while and now we usually get there right as the bell is ringing.  And then at 1125 we pick her up in front of the school. She is always excited to see us! Yesterday she was talking about having to hurry on project because she had to go home, so I asked her if she wanted to started going all day. To my surprise she said, "No, I like coming home to spend time with my family." So half day still yeeah! Well sometimes!