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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
“Do you want to go to school?”
So, I took Rosco on a tour of a preschool this morning. He pretty much has a spot there, but I just need to call tomorrow and confirm that we want it.
He would be in a two-day/week program and the curriculum for three-year-olds is pretty loose. That is to say there is a daily schedule and themes, but at that age there’s not a lot of didactic blathering going on. He’d basically be there to socialize and get glue and paint on someone else’s furniture. It’s a church-affiliated preschool so he’d have to go to chapel every other week. The more intensive kindergarten prep starts in the 4-year-old room (which “academically” he probably should be placed in, but missed the age cut-off by a couple of months for).
Rosco behaved “okay” during the tour. He demanded sort of loudly a couple of times that I let go of his hand so that he could go play, to which I responded “Yeah right, bub” (paraphrase). He didn’t like it when people walking past would rub his head. That seems like a reflex for people for some reason. (I know he’s cute and fuzzy, but what if he was a biter?)
He didn’t really start acting up until we were leaving at which point he decided to try to lay down in the parking lot whining “I don’t want to go home!” I had to threaten him with promises of time-out, a nap, and the ever-vague “Do you want me to give you something to really cry about?” (he’s too young to be afraid of that, though, so I might as well stop using it). When none of those worked I just strapped him into his car seat and he clammed up about 30 seconds later. I understand he has cabin fever and is sick of being in the house, but he understands that public whining and tantrums don’t work on me. I don’t know why he tries, because he never gets the result he wants.
So. Hope nobody saw that. Don’t want him to get expelled before he’s officially enrolled.
“Do you want to go to school?”
He would be in a two-day/week program and the curriculum for three-year-olds is pretty loose. That is to say there is a daily schedule and themes, but at that age there’s not a lot of didactic blathering going on. He’d basically be there to socialize and get glue and paint on someone else’s furniture. It’s a church-affiliated preschool so he’d have to go to chapel every other week. The more intensive kindergarten prep starts in the 4-year-old room (which “academically” he probably should be placed in, but missed the age cut-off by a couple of months for).
Rosco behaved “okay” during the tour. He demanded sort of loudly a couple of times that I let go of his hand so that he could go play, to which I responded “Yeah right, bub” (paraphrase). He didn’t like it when people walking past would rub his head. That seems like a reflex for people for some reason. (I know he’s cute and fuzzy, but what if he was a biter?)
He didn’t really start acting up until we were leaving at which point he decided to try to lay down in the parking lot whining “I don’t want to go home!” I had to threaten him with promises of time-out, a nap, and the ever-vague “Do you want me to give you something to really cry about?” (he’s too young to be afraid of that, though, so I might as well stop using it). When none of those worked I just strapped him into his car seat and he clammed up about 30 seconds later. I understand he has cabin fever and is sick of being in the house, but he understands that public whining and tantrums don’t work on me. I don’t know why he tries, because he never gets the result he wants.
So. Hope nobody saw that. Don’t want him to get expelled before he’s officially enrolled.
Posted by Tiffany on 01/20 at 12:09 PM
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