2007-01-02 13:27:25 · 33 answers · asked by wdworkpallets 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
Mothers invest a lot of emotion, effort, and time to get their children to this point. It is a major benchmark in both the mother's and the child's life. She now has to let go and trust a "stranger" to take care of the child she physically carried for nine months and raised until old enough to attend preschool.
If you are talking about your wife, have some empathy. There is nothing with a mother or a father crying!
2007-01-02 13:31:26 · answer #1 · answered by banananose_89117 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine just started preschool, and the same thing happened to me. Totally took me by surprise, because I was all excited about having a few hours to run some errands, and get some things done without interruption. However, I was a blubbering mess. With me, it wasn't as much that he was "growing up", it was more relinquishing control of him to someone else. He'd always been with me, and the only babysitters he's known have been his grandparents and a few people I'm very close to. HE was fine about going to school, he was just like, "Bye Mom!" But I just kept envisioning him needing me, or the people at the school forgetting him outside during play time, or some other horrible thing. Of course, it was silly, and after a week or so, when I saw how much fun he was having at school, I chilled out.
2007-01-02 13:34:32 · answer #2 · answered by Jess H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I need someone to explain to me how some moms are able to NOT cry when their little ones enter preschool for the first time.
I was a WRECK and I am a teacher at his school! I was just upstairs! Crazy huh? :)
It is just so many emotions all at once...so proud that you have gotten them this far, scary that they don't need you as much and that you aren't going to be there to defend them and wipe their tears, happy that they are going to be learning so much, upset that they are nervous or sad to see you go...I am going to cry now!
SD
2007-01-02 16:56:42 · answer #3 · answered by SD 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was the first step in "letting go". The first time I had entrusted the care of my child to a non family member. Also we are so proud of the preschooler. Such a display of independance! And if the child cries we feel like horrible parents and if the child doesnt cry we wonder why. I will say it was harder with my first child then with my second.
2007-01-02 13:37:23 · answer #4 · answered by shannon d 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moms cry because this 'baby' is going to start dealing with strangers, so moms cry because of uncertainty. Again the bond between mom and child is one of the greatest bonds on earth. Whenever there is a joining in a connection there is bound to be some hurt. Even when the older kids leave home moms, and sometimes dads cry because their children are going into the unknown so they are fearful. I bet your mum cried when you left home. The act of crying is called prayer and the whole thing is called Love
2007-01-02 14:09:55 · answer #5 · answered by Pathfinder!!! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it means they are growing up and you start to realize that they aren't needing you as much anymore. I didn't cry for pre-school, but I cried almost the whole first week she was in Kindergarten (not all the time, just when I got back home after walking her to school), and when she started 1st Grade this past fall, I was teary the first day. Of course I know not all parents are like that, I know one couple that is counting the days until their sons get out of the house, I doubt that they cried when the boys started school.
2007-01-02 13:32:48 · answer #6 · answered by nimo22 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I spent a lot of time homeschooling and preparing my son...by the time he entered preschool he was beginning to read.
It is hard to turn that control over to a new person...what if she is mean, what if she's not a good teacher...what if other kids are mean to him...what if he's mean....plus when you spend 24/7 with a shadow and he's gone it is lonely.
I really missed my son...his first day I went to Target and I started crying in the store.
Now we are fine, he loves school and to be honest, Iook forward to the errands without him.
2007-01-02 13:33:59 · answer #7 · answered by jm1970 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's a part of you that really doesn't need you as much anymore.
When a mother sends her child out into the world for a first time, she sees him/her as an adult going off to college. And in a blink of an eye, that's actually what happens. As an adult, you realize how fast life goes by, when for your children it moves at a crawling pace. And you know it won't be long before they learn to drive, have their first date, go off to college or enter the military, and get married and have kids of their own.
2007-01-02 13:31:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the reason why I would cry. 1.) It's a sign of them growing up and moving to another level that just keeps growing and 2.) they are so innocent and defenseless and wouldn't know how to express if something happen that shouldn't have happened, or if they were teased or if they made new friends. They are too precious!
2007-01-02 13:30:54 · answer #9 · answered by joy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it is the "end of an era" in the child's life. It is the first step to real Independence in the child's life. It is when the realization that our babies are growing up really hits.
Or maybe they are tears of joy that the child is finally out of mom's hair!(if the child has "behavior" issues.)
2007-01-02 13:35:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋