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How was your first day at school?

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    #92
    Paddy Cow
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    paleoperson wrote: »
    Nothing to do with different times. Young children cry all the time. If they're crying every day you might have a problem. I've no specific memory of the first day but I am fairly sure I didn't cry and others did, even though I had never gone to playschool while they did.

    It's normal and I can't help but feel the comment "something, somewhere has gone terribly wrong." regarding this thread is just a hysterical bit of rhetoric.
    It is though. Children crying going to school on their first day 30+ years ago was perfectly normal and no one suffered long term anxiety for it. The point I was making is that nowadays kids are more likely to have been in creche or done the ECCE years, so it's not their first time away from Mammy and are more likely to be prepared for it. I'm not saying kids today don't get overwhelmed with it all and have a little cry but they are less likely to feel anxious or afraid.


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    #93
    gormdubhgorm
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    I don't remember my first primary school day at all.

    But I do remember I moved from one primary to another in high infants.

    Felt like a mini celeb and half terrified/excited at the same time.
    I remember freeing proud that I didn't cry.

    For some reason. I still remember another new kid had her first day in the class the same as me.
    The teacher called her 'Laur' the poor girl burst into tears and she said that is what her mother called her.
    Name was Laura.
    Fortunately for me my parents did not give me odd nicknames - so it was grand,

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    #94
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users Posts: 18,316 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    It is though. Children crying going to school on their first day 30+ years ago was perfectly normal and no one suffered long term anxiety for it. The point I was making is that nowadays kids are more likely to have been in creche or done the ECCE years, so it's not their first time away from Mammy and are more likely to be prepared for it. I'm not saying kids today don't get overwhelmed with it all and have a little cry but they are less likely to feel anxious or afraid.

    Yeah apparently the kids rared at nursery have a two year advantage on the kids that do not go to nursery - until they equalise out at six/seven

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    #95
    Eleysian
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    I remember my first day very well. We were told to come to school at 10am. We all had a luggage label with our name printed on it and threaded to wear around our necks. As requested by the school we all had a white hanky pinned to our tops. We have to line up in the hall. I can still”remember” the smell of the wax on the floors and the various religious statues. We were like wartime evacuees!


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    #96
    Aglomerado
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    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    It is though. Children crying going to school on their first day 30+ years ago was perfectly normal and no one suffered long term anxiety for it. The point I was making is that nowadays kids are more likely to have been in creche or done the ECCE years, so it's not their first time away from Mammy and are more likely to be prepared for it. I'm not saying kids today don't get overwhelmed with it all and have a little cry but they are less likely to feel anxious or afraid.
    This is very true. I went straight from home to 'big school' in a rural area. No Montessori School there that time (there is now).
    I wasn't socialised with other children very well other than with my cousins so I had difficulty for a while getting used to that. Once the teacher put me in my place (firmly but fairly!) I was fine and made friends and loved it.


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    Junkyard Tom
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    Not my first day that was fine - I remember playing with a guy sat next to me whose name just popped into my head! The first year wasn't great though because the teacher we had was neurotic and indeed ended up off work with 'her nerves', as they said back then.

    She had us all terrified by the impending visit of the priest and made us practice blessing ourselves to impress him. I remember not being able to understand the difference between my right and left hands so that kinda freaked me out. The difference between my left and right still doesn't come naturally to me whatever way my brain is wired up.


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