Getting Ready for First Day of School
I gotta say, I may be just as excited as the kids! This is a huge milestone for them! I came across a few types of back-to-school mom funny videos, I am not quite as bad as first time back-to-school mom, but pretty darn close! Both my kids are able to get enrolled, one kindergarten, one pre-k. I guess I’d better get use to this.
According to school’s instruction, I got their back packs ready – full of NOTHING!
I came from China, I am not used to this.. when I was in elementary (I’m pretty sure it is still the case in China), we went to school and got enrolled. We were handed a list of text books and schedule of classes. We had to go to the school bookstore and buy all the books and make hand written copies of schedules to keep at home and in our own pencil box. Then we wrap up all the textbooks nicely and put our names on the book covers. Everyday, we check our schedule for the following day, and pack our backpacks accordingly, with pencil box, textbooks required, scratch papers, note books… our backpacks were 15 lb easy, every day.
Instead of packing these, I sent their school supplies to school while meeting the teachers, all the heavy lifting was done by my mom and me. If you read my previous blogs, you know both of us are recovering from surgery. Luckily, her left side of the body is good, my right hand is normal. 2 ladies carried the heavy box of 2 classroom school supplies to school, kinda funny but we made it.
Kids nowadays have it easy. I know my parents told me the same thing when I was growing up. Even though we all say it, I am not quite sure which path majority of us are sending our kids down to with our actions. Most kids nowadays are too soft, too whinny, too fragile, too entitled, mine are probably one of these right now. Working progress. I know most of my friends who have kids are same as me in terms of what to teach our kids, and they need to grow up honest people, work for things they want in life, polite and kind. At the end of the day, when the kids go to pre-k and kindergarten, being the youngest kids in the school, who is there to protect them and comfort them, if all they know is to whine and cry when other kids don’t give them what they want all the time, and when things are not fair? Are they going to have a security blanket when they are 15, or are they expecting someone to carry their pencil for them when they are 12?
Honesty, kindness go a long way, never claim nothing that’s not theirs, and grow up to be a person that never feel the need of hiding what they have done, because they will never do anything that they will need to be ashamed of. That’s a mom’s wish, and that’s what I will do my best for.
