Kindergarten Report: Adik

This is Adik's third week at kindergarten. The first few days he was quite keen to go because he'd been saying "Adik want go school" obviously wondering how come Abang gets all the fun and he has to stay home.

After a weekend of staying home, however, he probably figured Hey! It's more fun to stay home. So Monday morning proved somewhat difficult to get him to go but then hey, we're committed at this point so I just had to go ahead and send him even though he cried as I left.

The next day he had a slight fever and a runny nose so we gave him a couple of days off school. By Wednesday evening I had to psyche him up to prep him that he was going to school on Thursday and he was quite agreeable to the idea.

Basically, I asked him, "Adik, tomorrow do you want to bring chocolate milk to drink at school?"

That's when his eyes lit up. "Nak!"

"And some Koko Krunch also?"

"Nak!"

Daddy thinks we shouldn't be 'bribing' him with food but I say, hey, whatever works!

I find that prepping him about what to do, or eat, or play in school the afternoon/ evening before going to school helps a lot. Rather than springing a surprise on him in the morning. This way he's prepared for it.

Occasionally he might make a feeble attempt at skipping school, "Adik don't want go school, Mummy, Adik want go home." This usually happens in the car on the way to school so I still managed to talk him into going.

If we're early enough, then usually his teacher (and Abang's teacher too, sometimes) will be the one waiting at the gate. If this happens then he's always happy to go in with her. But if we're a bit late and it's the maid who waits at the gate then he'll insist on my sending him in.

Now I think he's quite used to the idea of going to kindergarten that it's become a routine already for him. This morning he was a little cranky and whiny but still managed to send him without much fuss.

Oh yes, aside from the first two days at school when he peed in his pants, so far he's only had one other peeing accident in school. Similarly, at home so far in the past month he's only had one peeing accident.

Of course, I've jinxed it now, haven't I?