Kindergarten.. uh oh..
My youngest son, is going to be starting Kindergarten soon.
Worried? Me? seriously? nah..
Ok maybe just a little. So very few things really matter to me. I mean very few at all. I don’t have a lot of preferences that I push about anything in life. I do worry about the duke though. i think back to all the trouble I had when I was in school. All the pressure I felt trying to overcome ADD so I could get my work done at the same time as the other kids. I worry so much that he may have this same issue. I don’t remember much of anything from my elementary school days, but I can tell you that pre 4th grade (when I got medicine for ADD).. life was rough. I got in trouble with my mom about not getting my work done at school.. I missed playtime outside due to not getting my homework done in time at home. I don’t remember kids teasing me, but I was significantly larger than everyone in my grade, so I doubt that happened. I do remember the spirit of competition as a child in school.. Who can solve this problem first? Who can spell this word? What does this word meane? I liked that, and was good at it.
In general I like knowing things. I don’t like surprises or mysteries. I want facts, period.. thank you. Here is my history with Kindergarten..
Megan: Started K, and didn’t know the alphabet. Knew how to write her own name though. Had been writing that since she was 4.
Glenn: Borderline retarded when he started K. I say this jokingly because Glenn was a goof. You couldn’t get him to do anything. “draw a circle glenn..” (crude line on page.. pencil held in mouth). Seriously, I couldn’t get him to do anything.
After Kindergarten:
Megan: Could read and write to a lesser degree (on track, I’d say). Math was fun and easy for her.
Glenn: Could read and write better than me. That’s right.. Dingleberry was a closet genius. I have and still rate off the cahrts for analytical abilities, and Glenn eclipses me some times.
So what can I learn from this? I can learn NOTHING.
- Megan and Glenn are not my biological Children. So them learning anything can’t be attributed to me at all.
- Megan has been surpassed by Glenn’s potential long ago. (it has been a painful issue for her, until recently) and Megan came in knowing LOTS more than Glenn.
Duke knows somewhere in between. He knows SOME letters of the alphabet. Those he tends to know intermittently.. He writes his name almost as good as I do (bad penmanship on my part). Maybe I’m making too much of this.. but I so much want his school experience to be normalized in comparison to mine. Nobody CALLED me dumb in school.. but when everyone else gets done before you, you still FEEL dumb. I don’t really know what to say more than this. I am worried. I am afraid. Both of those emotions are ones I am normally unfamiliar with..