Justification for getting late

Things are much for Johan in Nursery. Now he need to get up early morning by 7:30am, get ready and off to school with his dad at 8:35am. You got to be at school by 8:45am. If you are late for whatsoever reason it may be, as parents, you got to justify yourself.

I've got the opportunity to justify myself within the initial few days itself-not something to boast about. That was the first day, when I reached school by 8:53am precisely. When my chance came to justify myself in the late register, I saw that I am the 8th parent to budge. I need to specify a reason why we got late. I scanned through the register for the reason-learning from other, you know. The only answer for all the parents who got late was just because of traffic on the Coimbatore roads. What an easy inference for one to get late! How easy is for us to throw the blame on others-a natural human tendency!

Johan off to playschool

Finally... a time to sit back and write on the same topic. As an orientation, he did go for a summer camp in Euro Kids, Ganapathy, Coimbatore, India - the first experience for him with school. Right from the time he turned 2, he used to tell all to whom he talks - "Jonu schoolil pokuvaa". Though he didn't let us know what he has done each day, as parent we got an update on the final day, when he brought back quite a lot of art works - crayons painting, fine sand painting etc. Though, its obvious that he did this with some external help (thanks to the teachers who helped him), I noticed a few changes in him

A Johan who used to be quite annoyed sitting at home, was willing to go to school.

A Johan who used to cry each day while I leave him at school on my way to office, eventually tried to contain himself. Obviously, he was sad to leave his parents back at the school entrance.

There was also a few changes in Leena.

A mother who haven't left his son over the past 2.5 years, felt very uncomfortable to leave him for just 2 hours daily.

Later, Johan started going to school on the school bus and Leena used to go and bring him back in a cab.

Summer camp concludes.. And the preschool start on 9th June'2010.