There he stood my little boy -already grown up to start his play school. Dressed in blue t shirt and a checked shorts looking around confused , puzzled as to what is going to happen in this place where so many children of his age group along with their mommies and some new aunties are hanging around . And then slowly , we had to drop him off and he shed his tears for going away to strangers for the first time .
There were only sound of crying children for the next half an hour .Then we were shooed away from that place to not hang around and make it difficult for the crying children.
We all waited patiently for the one hour to pass by but every minute was looking like an hour . Constantly peeping in through the gaps of the walls to see what our children were doing . Some grand parents went on " how can they leave the child alone"
and one mommy even cried . I was busy zooming my camera to take a click of little vihaan's reaction . With great difficulty capture two snaps ...it was so far way ..though got a pic of he asking a teacher something ..like " where am i ??? "
This is a picture that will never fade from my memory , like the one that is registered already in my mind - where Dr Nirmala put him on my tummy and said " it is a boyyyyyyyyyyy" and the tired me gathered all my energy to take a look at my sweetie pie who was gonna change the rest of my life ...yes ..my labour ward scene :-)
Now back to the school play ground , Vihaan looked like he was crying but at the same time concentrating on what was happening ..other kids ..teachers..observing them . He also caught hold of one of the older kids and walked around with her ...
My patient wait ended when they called for Vihaan's mom and smilingly i went and grabbed him and gave him a tight hug as if he had returned from war!!!!
And i felt so elated to read his first school report ....
Finally ....Vihaan's mom is also growing up :-)
7 comments:
Enjoyed every line of this post Viji..Excited at the same time a bit scared too, to experience it myself but there is another 6months for us to put her in playschool so taking a deep breath :) I'm also scared to hear the long list of complaints for her he he;)
Oh my God! I don't know why tears are rolling out of my eyes dear.:)
Amazing experience and very well written......
Somethings never change. My parents would have probably said the same thing of their blog the first day of my school...But here's hoping Vihaan gets much better scores than I did ! LOL !
That was not Nandita - that was me Anurag !
Loved the way you wrote here. I too had the same experience when my child started playschool this month beginning. Was able to relate so much with this post.
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