We watched our kids race after each other. They didn’t need us to entertain them, they were happy to play with each other. I said to my husband that this time in our life felt good. He agreed but stopped and looked at me with genuine concern and said, “I feel like the kids are growing up too fast.”
I know I can’t slow you down, my child so instead I will slow myself down so that I don’t regret my speed in your inevitable growth.
Challenge yourself to stop asking, “How was school today?” Instead, find the opportunity to share moments without distraction.
My baby is going to Kindergarten. Her first steps of being a big kid, but she’ll always be my baby. “Tell me again about when I was a baby.”
As you start your first day of school, this is what I want you to know, my Kindergarten girl.
It’s time to let her be who she is now, dream of the woman she will eventually become and move beyond her baby life. She is ready for Kindergarten.