School Daze

Mama was on call for this second day of pre-school transition. It doesn't sound like it went well. Petra is considerably more clingy with Mama than Dada, and wouldn't let her leave at all. The teachers were also not particularly helpful, not giving any guidance or talking to Mama about how best to help Petra make the change. It didn't help that when Petra started melting down at mid morning, Mama tried to help by giving her some apple. Of course, non-sanctioned snacks are not allowed, and a reprimand was delivered. Not particularly helpful, as they had no other advice on how to handle a hungry baby.

After lunch though, Petra got her second wind and was happy again (gee, think she was hungry?). She played a bit, and then helped get the cots out, and was yawning and saying she wanted to nap, but the teachers said, no nap, take her home instead. I assume that they have some sort of transition plan, but they did not make any attempt to share it with Mama. Petra promptly fell asleep in the car, but woke up and wouldn't go back to sleep after getting home, so she was pretty unruly all afternoon.

Tomorrow, the teachers REALLY need to talk to us about what the plan is. We are pretty easygoing parents, we just need some guidance. Today they apparently started saying that transition would run into next week (which was never mentioned before), and we're going to have to scramble to find a way to do it when we're running out of vacation time! I can't say this has been the most pleasant experience for any of us so far!

Dada did take Petra for a long walk after dinner (her suggestion), and we talked a lot about her day, and she clearly did enjoy a lot of the day, and remembered songs and stories, and some of the kids she met. We're getting there, but it isn't easy!