This year is the year my third son, Guim, has entered the school. Unlike the medium, Aran, who had an adaptation of the most horrible, he is very happy every day and is delighted with the school, with his classmates and with his teacher, who for the little I know her, I can say that I love it .
In Babies and more We talk a lot about schools and it is not usually for good, because that is normal, that everything goes well and that they work respecting children, their times, their needs and helping them to be more autonomous and better people. When this does not happen, when something fails, then we explain it (everything is usually spoken when something goes wrong ... when things are going well it is considered normal). One of the things that I have noticed that happens in some schools (in the two that I have been happening) is that there is a very critical moment with the little ones that could well be avoided: that damn moment in which the children who stay in the dining room see how others go home with their parents.
My children have never stayed in the dining room
And I have seen it many times because my children have never stayed in the dining room. We have never needed it, because Mom does not work and when we have not been able to be with them they have gone to eat at the grandparents' house. I've seen it many times and I've always thought the same "Couldn't they do it differently to avoid that moment?".
Because some take off their gowns to go home and others don't. Because then the parents arrive, those of the children who eat at home, and we bend over, we receive them in our arms, we give them a huge kiss and ask them smiling: "How are you? How have you been? Have you had a great time? good?". Several parents arrive and several children leave, and all happy at the reunion.
Do you really have to see that, hoping that maybe one day dad or mom will appear, they never appear? They are children of 2 and 3 years old, they have just started school, many come still crying in the morning, or if not crying with many reservations, and then they have to see that at noon, while many children are picked up by their parents, His do not come.
A few minutes before, enough
The strongest thing is that the solution is very easy. Of the simplest. It is enough that the monitor of the dining room that comes to find them arrives a few minutes before, only a few minutes, and will have managed to avoid that situation. Arrive at class, call those who stay in the dining room and take them, between songs and jokes, to eat, "to see who is hungry!".
Put yourself for a moment in the mind of such a young child, who has just spent a magnificent summer with his parents in the first year that he learns a little of what has happened, and suddenly they not only leave him in an unknown school, with unknown children, to spend many hours without their parents but also, at noon, when they could come to look for him like the other children, nobody comes to hug.
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