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Nostalgia already


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It’s a year since the Princess started school. They start them early in Belgium; two and a half. She was the oldest child in the creche when we kept her there until January. Two and three quarters the other parents muttered darkly, look at the size of her, she should be in school.
In a spirit of nostalgia, I was looking through her drawings and other stuff from the creche which they presented to us in a neat folder when she finished (you stay at home mothers may have been there when they painted the picture but I bet you don’t have their work neatly filed for you by other people like us working mothers). They gave her an assessment:

“Nous avons découvert en P une petite fille charmante, épanouie, souriante, curieuse et appréciant la vie à l’atelier entourée de ses amis. P a un excellent vocabulaire et une très très bonne structure de phrases et fait bien la part des choses par rapport aux deux langues (francais-anglais).

Lors du regroupement au coin tapis, P est la première à s’installer. Elle connaît tout le répertoire par coeur et est capable de reproduire un coin tapis a elle toute seule sous l’oeil admiratif de ses copains. P porte beaucoup d’intérêt aux histoires; elle fait ses petits commentaires et en demande encore et encore.

Elle reconnaît son prénom écrit selon la méthode Cohen. P connaît les couleurs primaires et secondaires. Lors de nos activités artistiques, P tient ses outils correctement. Elle respecte les consignes données par l’adulte, a acquis la psychomotricité fine. Pendant nos séances de psychomotricité, P saute, grimpe, rampe et passe dans le tunnel sans crainte.

Elle connaît les notions spatiales au-dessus/en dessous, devant/derrière et connaît son schéma corporel. Lors des jeux, P aime beaucoup jouer avec les poupées et les poussettes comme une petite maman. Elle apprécie aussi les jeux de constructions.

Nos grandes conversations et moment câlins nous manqueront beaucoup.

Bonne route a toi, P.

L’équipe de l’Atelier”

Can’t say why but it makes me feel a little sad; I chose to go back to work but it doesn’t mean I don’t wish I could have it both ways.

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  1. Blimey that report tested my dusty old French a bit.
    I too sometimes think it would be nice to have my cake and eat it. I have chosen to be at home for the forseeable future, but I do miss having things to blog about.

  3. Sounds like a brilliant creche.
    Have no doubt that I get my ‘poor me no career’ moments too. I can get really annoyed when people talk as if you can have everything. And of course staying at home involves only a limited amount of cutely making shape biscuits and lots of, to take an example from an earlier post of yours, folding clean laundry while the kids are watching tele.

  4. I wonder what makes you sad reading her report. Is it really about work or just the sadness we all have – in the midst of all the pride and pleasure – as they grow up.

  5. My daughter loves her pre-school, but it bothers me to drop her off day after day. I always feel like the bad guy. As I said, it’s me and not her. Other times (perhaps after a week off of work), I’m thrilled that she has somewhere to go and play! We all know that no choice is ever perfect, but it’s still hard at times.

  6. Hang on, two and a half? That means two and a half years less paying through the nose for creche fees? Genius.

    What’s the minimum age? The Demon can walk – surely she’s old enough?

  7. What a beautiful report and what a clever little girl you have!

    I find it bitter-sweet whan my children reach new milestones – it is even harder with #3 as there won’t be a #4 to follow…