Orientation is tomorrow!! =O

MAmom81 · Jun 12, 2008

You can do it!!! I know exactly how you feel I have been a stay-at-home mom for 6 years!!!! I have a 6 year old & a 4 year old and now I have to get my 4 year old ready for preschool & daycare!!!! I will be starting on August 25th Mon.-fri. & I am so nervous because I have not been to school in a long time but it's only a 12 month program & at the end I will be an LVN!!!! Just know you can do this ok hang in there!!!! I wish you the best:weathersunsmall:

NycCutie · Jun 16, 2008

You can do it!!! I know exactly how you feel I have been a stay-at-home mom for 6 years!!!! I have a 6 year old & a 4 year old and now I have to get my 4 year old ready for preschool & daycare!!!! I will be starting on August 25th Mon.-fri. & I am so nervous because I have not been to school in a long time but it's only a 12 month program & at the end I will be an LVN!!!! Just know you can do this ok hang in there!!!! I wish you the best:weathersunsmall:

Sweetie I put my daughter in day care at 8 months sounds harsh but sometimes as moms we have to do what we have to do in order to further our careers. I felt bad too but guess what only your children are gonna benefit from your career in the end and being in school and learning at a young age I do not regret it.My daughter knows everything and I mean everything she is even counting in spanish,she is working at honors level for pre k in september and a friend of mine has a son the same age who has been home all this time and she is now trying to put him in pre k and the schools are shunning here because the child knows nothing.As mothers we make decisions all the time and this is a big one but only you and your husband can decide what is right but all I can say is that it was a great benefit for me. Good luck sweetheart

1uvakindmom · Jun 16, 2008

I think you will be fine, hun. If this is something you want to do, then do it! Your kids will benefit because you will be happy knowing you are working on your career and something that will make them a better future. My 4 and 2 year old sons are in day care. I felt guilty at first, but they love it there, so I dont feel so bad. If you can find a day care you love, I am sure your kids will love it, too! It may take your baby a little time to get used to it, but the interaction with other kids I think is a great benefit to their emotional and social developement. My 2 year old was not talking much before day care, and now his speech has exploded! Good luck to you!!!

Missy

McCullough LPN2010 · Jun 19, 2008

i know just how u feel...........i will be squawling my eyes out evyerday after i drop my son off at preschool in the fall lol everyone laughs at me because they say that he will love it and ill be the one crying!! but u just cant help it i have been with him everyday from the day he was born til now and hes 3 1/2 their our lil babies its hard being away from them i know but we gotta bite the bullet sometime!!! or my son will be in college and ill be there at lunch time and after every class lol i know its going to be hard but we can do it!!! just remember we are going to school to better their lives!!! thats what at the end of the day makes it okay

missjennmb · Jun 23, 2008

I have a 2 1/2 yr old and an 8 mo old daughter. They have both been with me since birth and very VERY seldom left with anyone... even my husband. But since we are done having children and have really been struggling financially, as well as my really and truly NEEDING to do this for myself, we decided that I would finish school and go back to work.

My 2 yr old is so excited about 'school' that she cannot wait to go. I love her very much, but I will not be sad to have her there. She has flourished intellectually/academically/verbally/emotionally at home with me but I really feel like, for her, it is time to move to a more social environment of her peers (I'm surprised at those posts mentioning children who didn't speak or learn at home... maybe its just because of how we kinda learn through everything we do here I dunno... my 2 1/2 yr old has a very large vocab and knows her colors and some of her numbers and letters - as well as a few spanish words and some ettiquette type stuff).

My 8 mo old, unfortunately, is still in 'mommy mode'. Its a phase they go through somewhere between 6 mos and a year where they finally realize the concept of being apart from you (prior to then generally developmentally speaking, babies dont have enough thought process to fear a specific person leaving because they dont understand the idea of that specific person being gone). Its heartbreaking, and my daughter is having a VERY tough time with it right now. I took her to daycare the other day for the first time, and only left them for 3 hrs, and she cried the entire time, they said. I was in tears by the time I got back.

But ya know what? we'll get through it. both of us. all of us. together. We will be that much better able to love our babies because we have chosen to do something for ourselves too. I don't know about you, but after a few days of the terrible twos and teething and sleep schedule changes, its hard sometimes to appreciate my little angels. But having some time out of the house, doing my own thing, makes coming back to my babies all the sweeter.

Make sure you have a good family support system, and GOOD care providers that dont make you second guess your decision. Knowing that my babes are cared for when I'm gone is the only way that I could do this.

McCullough LPN2010 · Jun 27, 2008

i didnt get in the lpn aug 2008 class oh well

MAmom81 · Jun 27, 2008

i didnt get in the lpn aug 2008 class oh well

I feel for ya:weathersunsmall:!!!! Does your school put you on a wait list and you get to start next year?

MAmom81 · Jun 27, 2008

Sweetie I put my daughter in day care at 8 months sounds harsh but sometimes as moms we have to do what we have to do in order to further our careers. I felt bad too but guess what only your children are gonna benefit from your career in the end and being in school and learning at a young age I do not regret it.My daughter knows everything and I mean everything she is even counting in spanish,she is working at honors level for pre k in september and a friend of mine has a son the same age who has been home all this time and she is now trying to put him in pre k and the schools are shunning here because the child knows nothing.As mothers we make decisions all the time and this is a big one but only you and your husband can decide what is right but all I can say is that it was a great benefit for me. Good luck sweetheart

Thank you so very much!!!! Your post was so helpful & sweet, thanks!!!!

McCullough LPN2010 · Jun 27, 2008

that put u in the pool for the next sememster.............but me and my husband have been dealing with infertility for 2 years now so since i didnt get in i think we are going to really work on expanding our family and in the mean time imma take more classes for rn

Bobylon · Jun 28, 2008

I guess Im scared to start school again after so long (im 25) and leaving my son in day care from 7am-3pm everyday:cry: Should I go?

Only you can answer the daycare question, but I wouldn't be concerned with starting school again "after so long." I graduated from college in December of 1980, and enrolled in LPN school this spring (TOTAL career change :lol: ). You can do it. It's hard to relinquish care of your little ones to someone else, I know - my wife and I grappled with that years ago when our first was born. She took family leave from work, then I took family leave from work, then it was daycare. Same with our second. It's hard, but if you can find a daycare or babysitter you're comfortable with, it will be worth it to get into school. It's up to you...I say go for it, fwiw.