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First Day of School
The first day of school always brings with it a mixture of emotion for us parents. Whether you’re walking your 5-year old in for her first day of kindergarten or dropping your son off for his first day of high school, we feel sadness, excitement, apprehension, and maybe even a bit of relief.
Can I say, especially for us mothers, this is a difficult transition? I don’t mean to exclude dads, because I know that they have feelings, too, but it seems that losing your child to a world of polynomials, igneous rock, and Shakespeare after a summer full of long, lazy days, swimming, examining bugs, and cartwheels in the long grass is more of an emotional hurdle for moms than dads.
We love spending time with our children – but now it’s a new season where they go off into the world and must apply what we’ve taught them. Have we taught them well? Will they love learning about bugs, rocks, the solar system, and the difference between words like “accept” and “except?” Will they be able to handle bullying without bullying back? How will they handle gossip, a failed test, or no one to sit with at lunch? Do they know how to have and be a good friend? Will they remember everything they have to do and apply themselves to all they attempt?
Oh, believe me, these are just a few of the questions running around in my head. And the answers to the questions are yes, no, maybe, sometimes, and “who knows?”
There will be ups and downs, successes and failures, victories and disappointments. We’ll take each one as they come, realizing that every problem or challenge is an opportunity to resist the devil and to let the love of Jesus bring us closer to each other.
Even though my heart aches a bit with the start of a new year, I’m going to try to embrace this moment with all the newness it brings – particularly the miraculous push-and-pull of the growing up process. And I can’t wait till 3:00 o’clock.
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Do not ever think of relief when you send your children off to the public school. It is not the same we grew up in. Pray for God’s hedge of protection daily if you can not homeschool them. Pray for them everyday regardless. There is no respect for authority, no consequences for their actions, children are not allowed to be children, but are exposed to abuse from other kids and some teachers, too.
Please don’t paint all public schools with the same dismal grey brush! There are hundreds of thousands of Christian principals, superintendents, teachers, coaches, school nurses, secretaries, and volunteering parents who are helping educate and raise up children in public schools. Children are not only learning the 3 R’s they are learning how to live with integrity, character, purpose and how to be a shining light in this dark world.