Talking to a friend last week, she has her first child starting school this year, we were discussing all the emotional realities and logistical challenges that starting school presents. For example, she was genuinely concerned how she would get her sock hating 5-year-old to conform to sock wearing. My advice of course, being something to do with bribery…
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The milestones keep coming, telling me to slow down.
There was never any doubt that today would result in tears. Mine were a certainty, Charlie’s less so and MM kept it cool. Proud but cool. I justified my tears by telling Charlie that they were happy tears, because it was an exciting day and a special time. We are trying to teach him that all…