First Day of Preschool!

Sam was super upset after his first day of preschool because he had to leave before lunch. "Everyone else gets to stay the whole day!! Why do I have to come home early??" We had signed him up for half-days mainly because I miss him and I thought a full day might be a bit long for him (and also I'm super cheap and considered it to be a little bit of a waste of money to pay for him to eat, run around outside, rest on the floor, and read stories since we can do all of that at home quite easily). 

I figured I would rather have him go a full day, however, than come home and sulk for 4 hours while he waited and whined for everyone else to get done with school. So we switched him to full days.

On his first full day of school, I came to pick him up and he was standing by his teacher crying.  I thought maybe he had been worried I wasn't coming (I was about 2 minutes late), although that would have been unusual for Sam. But, no. He was crying because "everyone else gets to go on the bus!!! Why do you have to pick me up????"

It makes me laugh to think of people who expressed concern to me in the past that kids who don't go to daycare will be clingy, shy, dependent and unsociable.  There's not much escaping the personality you're born with (actually, conceived with, to be more accurate) at that age.