Do Not Grow Up too Fast
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Our youngest daughter Kelli is going to start Kindergarten in the fall. She is taking this far more easily and with confidence than she had just a year before when she started preschool. My feelings are more complicated. I am excited for her thinking of all the wonderful new experiences she will enjoy when she starts school.. yet, at the same time, I feel sadness. How could five eyars go by so quickly? The start of "real" school was a signal that out youngest was moving farther away from us and becoming more independent.
My husband and I often feel this emotional struggle between excitement as out children meet the mext milestone in their lives and sadness as another piece of their childhood is left behind. It is like a constant pull, wanting them to hurry up and grow so we can more things together as a family and yet regretting that they seem to grow up and change so quickly.
Hearing our daughter's verbal skills develop and grow has certainly filled us with those mixed feelings..