School's Boring!

This was the shocking revelation from Beth recently, after she (again) skipped kinder because she couldn't wake up on time.

The cold weather and 15-minute trek don't help either.

The quickest short-term solution would be if Mummy drove her to kinder.

What we're trying to unearth, though, is whether "School's boring" is an excuse for some other issue such as inability to get along with peers.

So hubby took Tue off and we sat in on her kinder session to observe.

I was really nervous when Beth's teacher roped me in to help out. Kids, especially other people's kids, make me nervous. I never know what to say to them and wonder if they'll think I'm this dumb, boring adult trying to talk down to their level.

Thankfully, preschoolers are a sweet bunch, eager to learn, anxious to be heard, and bursting with pent-up zeal when they realize they've got your attention 1-on-1.

I don't know if it was any fun for them that day as we played tag, raced round the playground (I know I'm overdue for a fitness check when playing tag with a 5 y.o. gets me out of breath!), played hide-and-seek, cheered a line of 4 and 5 y.o.s tumbling off the high beam etc.

Now that we're fairly certain school's not THAT boring, I'll be making an appointment with Beth's teacher to talk about her progress and behaviour at school, and to see if she has any ideas for dealing constructively with this.

I'm also trying to get a healthy perspective on things and reminding myself that all this is just a blip on the horizon. No one's gonna say in 10 years,"You let your child skip 10 sessions of kinder? How could you??"