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I’m not sure I’m cut out for this parenting gig.

School is the reason I almost didn’t have kids. I was scared to send them off into the big, bad, brick building.

Turns out, not that much has changed.

I’m really trying hard not to be a helicopter mom. I don’t want my kids to grow up with me doing everything for them, not letting them breathe and grow into independent people. I don’t want to do that to their future wives/husbands (and also, I might be too lazy).

Which is why, on Monday morning, the first day of the first full week of school, I told Henry that I would walk him to the gym door, but I wouldn’t take him all the way to his class’ section. He has to be able to walk in without me.

He didn’t want to, of course. But I made him (being the good mom that I am?).

I watched him nearly run across that gym floor, never looking anywhere but straight ahead, and sit down on the bottom bleacher in his class’ section.

It killed me. KILLED ME.

Why did they have to put the littlest kids all the way on the far side of the gym anyway??

Ivy was sick on Monday, but she’s only let me cut off about 2 minutes of the time I have to stay with her. I guess I could leave her, too, but I’m not going to leave her crying. Henry took at least a week of kindergarten before he let me leave him last year.

But, I’m doing the right thing, right? I have to cut the cord at some point.

RIGHT??

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