Dear Teacher,
I wonder about you, Teacher. You seem sweet and kind. Your room is very bright, welcoming and clean… but I wonder how you will treat daughter after I’m gone.
Will you stick up for her if someone picks on her?
Will you help her if she struggles?
Will you realize how bright and special she is?
Will you set a good example for her and be someone she can look up to and respect?
Will you see that she’s a little shy but only with grown-ups?
Will you give her a hug if she misses me?
Will you understand her desire to make everyone laugh?
Will you help her if she’s lost in this big, new school?
I hope you’ll understand these questions swimming in my eyes as I hand my baby over to you today. I’m trusting you to take extra good care of her.
Sincerely,
Her Mom
Happy First Day of School 2006
Happy first day of school! How exciting! :yahoo: Don’t eat too many bon bons with all that spare time you’ll have! :wink:
Oh my gosh. This is destined to become an e-mail forward.
Love the cute Cammo backpacks! Our school forbids them for some stupid reason.
I can really relate to this. It is so hard letting your children go for the whole day and knowing that some person you’ve barely met will have such a big role in influencing them all day long. I hope your girls have a great first day back!
As a future teacher, I hope that I will be able to do all those things for every one of my students. How very sweet, what a loving mom you are. Don’t worry, your baby should be in good hands. Happy First Day of School! (p.s. I still have one more week)
mine aren’t back yet, but boy, do i remember the tears, my tears.
hope she gets a great teacher, it will make all the difference in the world.
Aw. Now I feel extra-bad for being critical of the PTA mom in my post today.
That made me cry! My daughter starts Mothers Day out next week and I am so nervous about it. Thanks for that.
Happy First Day of School, Momma K! Hope everything goes smoothly!
First days are so hard… your post made me cry remembering all 3 of my kids’ first days… It’s gets easier. I can’t wait for them to go back on Wednesday!
Happy C&C Monday!
Found you on Cat’s blog!
Awww. Happy first day. We’ve been in school 2 full ding-dang weeks already!
My sister sent her oldest boy off to kindergarten yesterday. I hope your daughter does well, and makes everyone laugh!
Thanks. Now I’m all teary-eyed & sniffly. And Sophia is only two!!!
How’d they do?
Happy first day of school! How exciting a terrifying all at once. LOVE THE LETTER!
Dude… thanks a lot.
Take out the references to daughter, and that is how I feel about my son. Oh gosh .. I think I will just go cry now. And he doesn’t start until next Friday.
Love the backpacks. I hope yesterday went well. The girls are such terrific kids I know they did well. The mom on the other hand…
I’m laughing because I have the Napoleon Dynamite keyring on my housekeys. Gah! At least they’ll be protected by the secret ninja moves of the government.
That is so sweet! I remember those days, when mine were little and I worried about them.
Now, I don’t care what kind of teacher they have, as long as they’re the hell out of my hair!
It won’t take long before that teacher realizes the gift she has! I wish I could be a fly on the wall(next to you) to watch how she makes her new friends and adjusts in her new school. Of course, any rejection will probably kill us but hardly affect her. Starting a new school with a class of strangers must be as heartwrenching as kindergarden was. She’s older and will do just fine. Now her mother…..
You were probably one of those snifflying moms trying to hold back tears that I passed in the hallway this morning. I was the mom running down the hall punching the air screaming “YES!” :yahoo:
Fortunately we don’t have to deal with a new school and I know the teachers in our school very well.
Which baby is this bout? Both of them?
It’s lovely.
I recently put my girls in headstart. I cried like a big fat noodle-head when I left them that first day. Now, I cant wait to get them there in the mornings bwahahahaha :rofl: I had all those same questions swimming around in my head, believe me! But the girls are doing great
And I’m sure your’s will too!
Aww. How’d it go, Momma?
:yes:
Have no fear, Mom. In this room, everything is cool.
The usual reaction after a first day at school is “It was ok, but I’d rather go to the zoo tomorrow.”
A sweet post. Hope the first day went well.
oh. this made me nauseous. or teary once the nausea subsides. how can I ever do this?
First day? What’s that? Ha! Hope all went well
Miss you guys.
I just took my oldest child for his Senior Portrait today. Many memories welling up in me just now. I recall with perfect clarity his first day of school and I think I must have asked all of those questions in my head at the time. I ask them…even now. I can’t tell you how this particular post struck me just now. Truth is beauty…and this… is beautiful.
Thanks a lot! It’s 10:12 and I had just stopped crying from dropping my daughter off at Kindergarten, and then I read this. It really is gut wrenching, isn’t it? No one tells you that sending your child off to Kindergarten feels like someone just ripped out your heart.
Oh, if only you could know how it feels to be the teacher and worrying about the exact same thing. Will I be there when the children need me? Will I make a difference in their lives? Will they respect me? How can I be a positive role model?
Starting fifth grade was a callenge but I just kept thinking that they are around the same age of my niece. I shouldn’t be scared of them.