Her class is about half over now, since it’s only a 3 hour class two days a week. It felt so odd dropping her off there, but she took it very calmly. She wasn’t too happy when some of the other kids got to the paints before she did, but that’s a good lesson.

It was so hard for me to leave her! I didn’t let her see that I was nervous, since I didn’t want her to be nervous. Seems to have worked, but we’ll see what she says when I pick her up.

I was reading about preschool prep on a forum, and one mother was declaring that preschool was nothing more than glorified daycare, and any mother too lazy to raise her own children shouldn’t have them. She had almost no sympathy for circumstance.

I just can’t agree with her. Ariel is in preschool because that is where she wants to be. She is not there to keep her out from underfoot or because I can’t teach her the basics, she is there because I think it is something she will enjoy and it gives her time to be with other kids and have fun. It will also give her some practice in how to behave at school, which, given how headstrong my darling daughter is, is probably a very good thing, lol.

Ariel already knows her ABCs, can count to at least 20, knows her colors and shapes and some of the states, all things she has chosen to learn without any pushing on my part. My biggest fear about sending her to school isn’t how she’ll cope, but will she be bored because she knows so much already?