Letting go

For the start of this year, my husband and I realized that our kids grow too fast. This year our youngest will be going to school on September and our son will now leave the "maternel" and enter into the "primary school." Our eldest already started high-school last year and soon everybody will be leaving our home (to go to school, that's what I meant. We still have many years ahead of us together, so I will not yet worry for the future ahead.)
 
I still can't imagine how my youngest will handle school life together with other kids.

As you know she has this strong character. As she spend most of the days at home, she didn't have the chance to be with other kids. So she develop this idea that anything she wants, she'll get and that world revolves around her. Well, actually, the latter is all so true for her, even my son's world revolves around her. My son, maybe because of the proximity of their age, is so responsible for his little sister. He has this idea of self-sacrificing for the other one. Even the food that he wants to eat, when his sister wants it, he'll give it. I think it's a good thing for my son but on the other hand, he's depriving himself of things he likes the most just to give it to our youngest. And also on the other hand, my daughter still develops the idea that if she wants it, it will be given to her. My poor son and yes, my poor daughter also, for she's not learning well enough from me. I wish I could do more for them. And I wish that she'll learn  from my son..., well, I wish, I wish.

I'm sure that there will be life changing experiences for her when she enters school. And I know she'll realize that the world doesn't turn around her and it's the other way around. I just hope that she'll learn to socialize at school and will not "snob" the kids out there.

Actually, I'm not afraid that she'll not do well at school, I know she will but there are some hesitations on my part, she'll be 2 and 1/2 when she enters the "maternel," still a baby for a mom like me. But at the end of the day, as I always say, there's only one thing a parent could do for their child --- and that is to let them go and grow on their own.