Aidan goes to school

Aidan went to nursery school for the first time yesterday.

He's not due to start for real until September, but the school suggested that we might want to send him there for a few hours a week this summer to help him adjust. We debated about whether he was too young (he's only 21 months now and will only just be turning two in September), but in the end decided to go with what most other people we know are doing. Our hope is that it will help to develop his social and language skills, as well as giving granny and pop a break from babysitting duties.

We decided it would be best to break him in gently, so mummy dropped him off at 9am and granny and pop went to pick him up at 10.30am. I thought he'd probably cry a lot to start with, but then be distracted by whatever activities they had the kids doing. Wrong. Apparently he screamed for pretty much the whole ninety minutes.

When I first heard this, my initial reaction was annoyance that the school hadn't called us to come and get him. But apparently Aidan's behaviour was relatively normal. That said, the person who runs the school said she could only remember one child who was worse than Aidan on his first day.

Fortunately, today was a little better. Aidan cried a bit, but it wasn't as bad as yesterday. We're just keeping our fingers crossed that tomorrow will be better still as one of Aidan's friends will be there then too, and hopefully he'll get some reassurance from that.