kindergarten Archive

A colleague once told me, while I was in the midst of sharing some complaint about my kids’ former day care center, “Just wait until you get to elementary school.” A single mom juggling a full-time career and taking care of her daughter, she ...Read More

It’s really happening. My baby is going to kindergarten. In 15 days.  He is excited. I am holding it together pretty well; I’m keeping the crying down to a minimum. We’ve been talking a fair amount about this transition, and my son, R, seems ...Read More

Sometimes, when I think about R starting kindergarten, I feel like a bad country song: oh me, oh my, life is changing, woe is me, blah, blah blah. Other times, I’m looking forward to it—especially when I ask R how he feels about starting ...Read More

R starts kindergarten in September, and we’ve already started getting ready: paperwork, assessments, and lectures about transition and logistics. Last week, I received a letter inviting us to a tour of the school–at 1 PM on a Monday, which is challenging for this working ...Read More