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Permalink Reply by Idita Sikka on April 6, 2009 at 6:16pm

Dear SPOC

This is a wonderful Discussion that has been started.

regards

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Permalink Reply by Rupi Chawla on April 7, 2009 at 10:55am

I totally agree with Idita....my daugther's first day in school was good.....though she cried initially when she saw other kids crying but later settled down pretty well.....she has gone to school for just 2 days and i feel she will start enjoying her time in the school in a week's time.....

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Permalink Reply by Nishtha Khurana on April 9, 2009 at 7:03am

I have lived in Germany for a few years and I enrolled my daughter in a playschool cum day nursery when she was just 9 months old for the sole reason that she could have company other than her parents and not become too clingy. The process of making your child adjust in a playschool/nursery in Germany is a very comprehensive process spanning 4 weeks. The first three days the child stays at the school only for about 1 hour each with the mother by her side. Fourth day onwards they start sending the mother out of the class after about half an hour gradually increasing the time till mumma is not required at all and the baby stays at the school for the whole duration.

My daughter's first day in the playschool was memorable. The moment she enetered the class, she simply crawled over to the other kids and started playing with the toys. In fact, she was so happy that she didn't once come to me while I quitely sat in a corner and watched. Third day itself, the teachers asked me to wait outside the class. That's when trouble started brewing. She started crying when she saw me missing. After 15 mins they had to call me back in. Slowly but steadily she adjusted there. I would leave her crying and the teachers would tell me, "don't worry, she cries only for about 5-10 mins and then she's fine the whole day." I remember standing outside the window for a couple of days and listening to her cry and slowly settle down to confirm what the teachers said. Eventually she started loving the playschool and teachers etc. We changed her playschool to a bilingual one after a couple of months (when she was 14 months old) but she adjusted well and I just dropped her to the new school and came to pick her up. She didnt cry at all and I think didnt even notice that all the kids were new. She was just too excited about new toys and a bigger play ground.

After we shifted to India, I put her in Aadharshila Vatika. I was already working then so my mother accompanied her to the school. She tells me that my daughter just hopped off her arms and took the teachers hand and simply went to her classroom. My mother waited at the reception and the teachers passing by were telling her that she was very happy until she saw the other kids crying. She saw them very quitely but didn't cry herself. My mother didn't even get to see her classroom because she didn't cry at all. Next day my mother didn't even stay there. Even now, she loves going to the playschool and keeps remembering her friends all day after she's back from there.

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Permalink Reply by Amit Saini on April 9, 2009 at 4:50pm

WOW,my experience has been totally different than that of Angella & Nishtha, today was my son's second day at school, on the first day he was all cranky & clingy, i was hoping things would change, infact for a brief period it did, he was in a good mood while in the car, got down of the car in a good mood, took his bag in a good mood, entered the school in a good mood, entered his class in a good mood, kept his bag in the class in a good mood, told me he wants to play on the slide in a good mood, was playing on the slide in a good mood, came down the slide again in good mood and then things changed fell down and then suddenly all good mood went for a toss, started crying again eneterd his class crying, was not wanting to sit down crying gets louder, does not want to stay in the class crying pitch is still the same, somehow manages to say bye while crying, as i leave he gets up to sit down on another chair gets entangled in some bags and falls dowm again crying again gets louder, by that time i had to leave and his teacher holds him, i leave the class & the school, outside the class can hear faintly his crying ... thats it for DAY 2, hoping things will change from DAY 3 onwards ...

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Permalink Reply by Sumit Vohra (Webmaster) on April 9, 2009 at 5:19pm

Hi SMP..this type of behaviour is very common and is expected whenever there is transition from play school to main school...u shud not worry I think he wud settle within 3-4 days.I wud suggest u to prepare him mentally for main school..... both of u should talk daily about it with your son !!

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Permalink Reply by Namita on April 9, 2009 at 5:32pm

well i loved reading all this mattter that u all have written but somehow mine a completely different affair ...my first daughters first day to school was at Ardee montt...NIDO prog(a mother child prog) wherein i went in with her to her classroom, sat with her made her do all activities........it was like reliving my own childhood that i never remembered...my little one was pretty co-operative except in the later part of her two hour thing...she wanted to go out and see CROW....wooohhh...but it really was these hours i'll remebr for lifetime ..... blessing it is to get to sit with her in her CLASS......never will i be able to do it ever again after this NIDO thing finishes........

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