transitions
Tomorrow will be a big transition for my family. I start my new job. It will be the first full time job I have had in 8 years. I have worked for a year learning a new skill, becoming certified and competent in it. And now all the hard work will pay off. I will make more in a year than my schooling cost so I am not afraid of student loans.
But it will be the first time since my kids enter school, that they will not be able to call me during the day. I can no longer drop off forgotten homework, or pick them up after school. They will need to become more responsible. I am sure that they will, but it may take time for us all. They will have more freedom and responsibility: coming home from school on their own, making their own snack, and starting their homework. I am not sure how my son, will be able to get two instruments, and a year's worth of locker junk home on the last day. I am hoping he will take my advise and start bringing stuff home in small sections each day rather than waiting for the last day. My daughter will have to make better snack choices, the bowl of sugar she ate the other day is not on my list of approved snack choices.
My husband will need to take up some of the slack. He may have to take our son to school early on Jazz days. He may have to get the kids ready for school on his own. On some days, he may be home before me and may have to be the "mean" parent and make them do homework or cook dinner. He is a grown competent man, he can do this, he just never had to.
And I will need to give up control. That may be the hardest of all the transitions we will face.
But it will be the first time since my kids enter school, that they will not be able to call me during the day. I can no longer drop off forgotten homework, or pick them up after school. They will need to become more responsible. I am sure that they will, but it may take time for us all. They will have more freedom and responsibility: coming home from school on their own, making their own snack, and starting their homework. I am not sure how my son, will be able to get two instruments, and a year's worth of locker junk home on the last day. I am hoping he will take my advise and start bringing stuff home in small sections each day rather than waiting for the last day. My daughter will have to make better snack choices, the bowl of sugar she ate the other day is not on my list of approved snack choices.
My husband will need to take up some of the slack. He may have to take our son to school early on Jazz days. He may have to get the kids ready for school on his own. On some days, he may be home before me and may have to be the "mean" parent and make them do homework or cook dinner. He is a grown competent man, he can do this, he just never had to.
And I will need to give up control. That may be the hardest of all the transitions we will face.