Green and Simple
Green and Simple: From Mini-Farm Preschool to Traditional Kindergarten
With our son just having graduated from a nature-based preschool, I wonder if the transition to a traditional public school will be more of a challenge for me or him.
Last week the youngest in our clan graduated from preschool, and I find myself feeling conflicted about the transition ahead. Our son has been at this school for his entire preschool life and has been pretty content for the majority of it. There were the early days, when he was still quite clingy -- I would feel the torturous tug during drop-off, his screams echoing through the classroom as I headed for the door. Overtime, this was balanced and eventually replaced with his resistance to leaving school at pick-up time. He has come to enjoy his independent life and the rich relationships he has developed with adults who are not his parents. Now this phase of his childhood and this stage of our parenting is coming to an end, and I am not …
