Monday, June 27, 2011

A Week After

It seems getting your child schooled is one of the toughest jobs in hand. The terrible twos prevail and refuses to attend that place, a look of terror in the eyes, filling with water even at the slightest mention of 'school'. A more assertive form of protest is screaming at the top of their lungs, letting the whole neighborhood know 'the torture mom makes me endure'.


Well the verdict is after a week of rigorous schooling, my girls are sick. One down with pharyngitis and the other bordering on the brink. A quick trip to the doc made us aware that these kind of infections do happen and slowly the child gets immuned, developing a more resilient physical form.


Apart from the apparent discomfort, there are emotional ones, for starters they refuse to leave the house, afraid of being whisked away to the place called 'school' and wherein resides 'teacher-auntie'. A whole lot of networking with moms-in-similar- stages revealed that this is quite a normal phenomenon.

Normal or abnormal i don't know, the practical fact is a whole lot of money, our hard-earned money looks like being flushed down the toilet.
So the question is are we pushing our kids too hard?
They are stressed out and most unwilling..........
Will they adjust and go willingly, happily if we wait till they are more than 3 years old?
Only time will tell i guess, but parents of 3 year olds too complain of the same behavior pattern. Looking back at my childhood days.....not that i have a huge memory of me being a 3 year old.....i still have some and i do remember being so happy to go and play in school! What happened with this generation?
Fancy schools, fancy premises are no substitute for attentive teachers, kind and capable. But how are we to gauge teachers?


As of now my babies are sick, unwilling and emotionally disturbed, the 'school' does not inspire enough confidence in me to start sending my children there again.
I want them to be happy and laughing as all parents would.

The west has a concept of 'home-schooling' i kind of now appreciate that, since it gives my child an emotional security and a general sense of well-being. Some might argue about the 'social' aspect, well living in one of the concrete jungles do have an advantage and i can kind of weave that in.

All these are thoughts and more thoughts!
School we need to wait and watch.

1 comment:

Minakshi said...

Its nice reading your blog Suparna. My daughter will start her school sometime next week. And I am also feeling the same chill. It is exciting to see your child grow but also unnerving that the child will be on her own, apart from proctetive mothers cove. From the first steps of school starts the whole journey of self-discovery and learning & unlearning. Certainly there is too much stress.