It was an exciting morning at our place today. James was going to head off to pre-school in his pyjamas without eating breakfast. A bit unusual I know but it was his class’s turn to have breakfast at school. He told me he would have breakfast and clean his teeth in his classroom before changing into his uniform for the rest of the day.
Emily’s year 3/4 class did a similar thing some time ago and so James was thrilled that it was his turn. He told me that he thought that year ones, twos, threes, even fours, fives, sixes, sevens, eights, nines, tens, elevens and twelves could have breakfast at school but he never thought that the pre-school class would be able to. I was glad he stopped at year twelve. For a while I thought we’d get into university and just keep going all day.
I’m looking forward to getting home at the end of the day to hear James tell me just how exciting it all was. There’s something absolutely life giving about sharing the excitement of a child.
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You’re right, it’s a great thing to hear the excitement of a child. 🙂
I’m a therapist “trainee” and work with a few kids, and yesterday one of my young clients came in and wanted to read a book to me that she’s been reading. We took turns and at the end of our time we hugged each other. It’s amazing how much happier she appeared after that interaction.
I think adults could learn a lot from kids too – if we took the time!
Please blog about how his breakfast was, I’m really interested in hearing about it.
Oh, it’s still Tuesday here!
I agree, Im working from home tommorrow – so I can attend my sons assembly – he is getting a merit award.
I’m fortunate enough to work for an employer who supplies breakfast every morning.
I hadn’t contemplated the idea of turning up to work in my Jammies. Please thank James (and co) for the excellent idea which I will trial at my first opportunity.