Tales From a Triplet House

Tales From a Triplet House
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans...
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'Be careful how you interpret the world: it is like that.' - Erich Keller

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I registered my trio for kindergarten yesterday, again.  I say again because I registered them last year and then decided to hold them back and send them to Transitional Kindergarten program instead.  To give them an extra year. 

That was a big decision.  A huge decision.  A decision three years in the making while I attended several events where I listened to speakers and educators discuss the pros and cons of all aspects of  how and when  to enroll multiple birth children in school.  And then I spent months  second-guessing and rationalizing my decision. 

Doesn't it seem like that is what us moms do best; agonize over every little decision for our kids as if the fate of their lives depended on it?  I was making this decision about kindergarten and envisioning the affect it would have on their chances on entering college...

In the end (or the middle, as it was), as TripletDad and I were sitting in the auditorium watching the Christmas pageant unfold, watching our  littlest one hide behind her sister on stage, watching our son talk to all the kids around him and chase an angel feather across the stage (the only child the teacher had to go up and haul back in line!), we knew then that we had definitely made the correct decision for our kids.

So there I was in line, again, with forms filled out in triplicate, again.  And agonizing over my latest decision to separate my kids in different classrooms.  It's for their own good.  I know it. I've considered all the angles all my kids' personalities and quirks... But how will it effect them when they are grown...

So the challenge of motherhood goes on...
Topics: Kindergarten, multiples, school, classroom, children
posted by ThatTripletMom on Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 04:50 PM
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