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Milestones I’m Not Ready For!
Posted On:Apr 29, 2008
My son is very excited. He can’t wait to go to ‘big school’.
As his mommy, I’m torn. On one hand, I am excited for him to begin this new chapter in his young life. He is going to experience so many wonderful things, make new friends and learn so much. But this next step is a doozy for me. I’m not ready to send him off to school.
I’m really not worried that it makes me sound old (I don’t think it does). I think it’s hard to see my ‘baby’ boy as a big kid, and ready to go to school.
I am excited, however, to watch him grow intellectually as well as physically this coming year.
There are a lot of changes to come.
With a big smile, and a little tear in my eye, I’ll be ready for them!
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Posted by ( Shanda ) on April 30, 2008 at 1:40 pm
How exciting!! You sound like a really good and caring mother. I remember hearing a saying when I was younger: “When you love someone, you have to let them go.” I think that this saying applies to this situation along with MANY others. I guess that when a child moves into Kindergarten that it is a growing process for both the parents and the child. Best of luck! Everything is going to be perfect and you are going to be the proudest mother of all!
Posted by ( Erin ) on May 01, 2008 at 8:44 am
I remember the first day of kindergarten for my oldest son. It ended up not being as hard as I thought it would, it was pretty exciting. It definately wasn’t as hard as the day, a few months into school, when he realized it wasn’t cool to hold my hand and give me a kiss good-bye in the moring. I had to smile bravely, hide the tears in my eyes, and shake his little hand in farewell, then rush to the car to cry selfishly for a few minutes.
This year my youngest will start kindergarten, and it pretty much has me in fits since he is my last baby. The only thing that softens the blow is the fact that I am looking forward to kissing that daycare bill good bye and only having to pay for afterschool care!
Posted by ( Sara Diamond ) on May 01, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Thanks for the kind words, Shanda! I agree with you. It will be a growing process for both of us!
Posted by ( LCasey ) on May 07, 2008 at 10:16 am
Last Wednesday was our “BIG Kindergarten Day” How exciting and how sad at the same time! I see my son growing up into that precious Little Boy but yet, he is still my precious little Baby. In some ways I thought this day would never come and now it is here and I am the one falling to pieces!! But how exciting this will be for him and all the wonderful changes and opportunities he will experience. He is so excited, he can’t wait to go to “BIG School” and he thinks he’s going to ride the bus, But mom is just not ready for that step yet. So I know for the first couple of weeks I will be the one crying everymorning at work just like I did when he went to preschool. Best wishes to all moms!
Posted by ( Sara Diamond ) on May 08, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I’m with you on the bus riding! I am so not ready for that, either! I’m going to make sure I have plenty of tissues in my car!