JR has been in nursery since January 2012. He had attended term times most days since then, it was my choice to send him, I was under no obligation to take him and if we wanted a sneaky trip to Alton Towers, Legoland or somewhere equally exciting we just told them in advance he wouldn’t be in.
All that is about to change, from Thursday I will be legally required to have JR in his uniform, ready to learn and in the school playground at 8.45 every Monday – Friday during term time, with the only exception being for illness. This scares me, I feel as if I’m losing my child, and my control over what he sees, does and experiences during his formative years.
JR is a November child so will be one of if not the eldest in his class. However I still don’t feel he’s ready to be away from home without me or his daddy for 6 hours a day, 3 hours of nursery whacked him out.
However I know there is nothing I can do to stop it happening, it’s a legal requirement that he gets an education, and I for one are nowhere near clever enough, and have no where near enough patience to homeschool and with 2 other little ones at home it wouldn’t be fair on any of them. So formal school education it is!
Just beware on Thursday I may will be a blubbering emotional mess.

My gorgeous little man ‘Just chillaxing!’