First Day in Playgroup
It was Kayden’s first time going to school on 4 Jan 10. Both of us took leave to make sure we accompany our lil’ one for his important first day at Playgroup!
We have enrolled Kayden for this playgroup 6 months ago. We want Kayden to have a feel of school life and to experience group activities as he has been very shy and does not like to interact with other kids. This might be the down side of him spending all his time with only us and the grandparents, but we have been reluctant to send him to a childcare.
The place is at Bishan PCF Education Centre. This is one of the few PCFs where they offer playgroup to children under 3 yrs of age.
All the parents were trying to buy the PT attire on the first day of school. The uniform was still not ready yet on the first day.
Kayden was still all smiles before going into the classroom.
We have to play a bit of tactics here. As Kayden is usually more “sticky” to Brenda, I have to ask Brenda and my mum to go out of the classroom first while I continue to stay with him for a while. Somehow, he was able to “see through” the plot and refused to let me go anywhere besides staying with him. At one stage, I wanted to use “Daddy is going to the toilet” as an excuse but he quickly grabbed his bag and wanted to go out of the classroom.
After 1/2 hr, I was the last parent who was still inside the classroom. All the soft talks were not effective and I had to force him to stay in the end while I just walked out of the classroom. We could see him full of tears while the teacher tried her best to console him. It was indeed very heartbreaking to see our lil’ one having to go through this stage.
When it was time to pick him up, we were being updated by the teacher that he required a one-on-one attention. The situation got better after the 3rd day and he was crying less often, although he still refused to play with other kids as yet….
