Mommy’s Separation Anxiety

Yes, I guess I am the one who’ll have the separation anxiety now. They say separation anxiety happens with babies around 7 months to 2 years. Huny is planning on sending Yz to a Day Care (ELC) here in the subdivision just a few blocks away from the house. Yz’s schedule would be 10am – 12pm.

I don’t know how Yz can handle it. I mean, kids can be very picky and violent around other kids. I’ve seen Yz played with our neighbors age ranging from 3 months to 11 years old. Yz likes boys (yikes!). I mean she prefers to play with boys because they are always active and running around. Yz can’t stay in one place and just watch other kids play. She wants to be out there, screaming and shouting with the kids.

I guess that urged Daddy to send Yz to a Day Care this early. Yz just turned two and usually Day Cares accept kids who are 2 years and 6 months old. But after the “Teacher” saw Yz, she reconsidered and let Yz enroll for a month. We were planning on enrolling her for a whole year. But you know, Yz might get bored and wouldn’t want to go there anymore, so a month will be a trial schooling for her.

Yz always wants to get inside that mini-school because of the plastic playhouses and slides in the porch which can be seen from the streets. Yz is bored with her toys. We buy her new ones like twice a month, and I rotate her toys; I keep some away and bring them out every other week to keep novelty. But still, she wanted more. Is she overstimulated?

I guess kids now are so exposed to technology. Yz already knows how to type her name on the computer: YZ. She knows how to pause and play the Media Player by pressing the spacebar. She knows how to operate almost everything.

I guess what’s only missing is the interaction with other kids her age. I have dreamed of homeschooling Yz and have read the benefits of home schooling your kid. But I guess home school does not mean to keep the kid inside the four corners of the house.

Although it would pain me to see her with her new second mommies (her teachers), I don’t want to deprive her of social life. I should know. When I was 4 years old, I practically lived outside or in our neighbors. I don’t want to stay at home because I am so bored with my toys and the people I mingle with which are all older than me. I wanted to play and play and play.

I know she will learn a lot from this new endeavor – may be good or bad behavior. The teacher said, there’s one rowdy little girl who enrolled for June. I hope Yz knows which ones to adapt and which ones to dump.

Tagged as: early schooling, separation anxiety