Younger sibling worried about older sibling at school?

[Karly]

Is anyone else dealing with this? Alexis is just freaked that Tyrus will be gone to Kindergarten soon. She keeps asking me when she can start school. :( She doesn't seem to care that she'll be the "big kid" at home and that she'll get to spend extra time with mommy. She's just sad that Ty will be gone.

On the other hand, Ty is psyched that he'll get to be "away" for a while. He's nervous, too about the unknown, but over all excited to be doing something new.

:crazy:

[MrsPeacefrog]

Riley was like that with Aiden starting preschool this year (he goes 5 days a week for half days) for the first few weeks he would get upset when we dropped him off for school and would ask to stay, no matter what I said about him being the big boy at home now helped. What I ended up doing was make the time Aiden is gone as a special thing for Riley. For example, I would stop off at the shops on the way home and tell Riley now he is the big boy he can help me get things off the shelf or we would come straight home, put Jacob down for a nap and I would spend one on one time with Riley. After a while he started seeing it as a positive thing, he got to be treated as the older child and he really enjoyed/enjoys that. we are 3/4 of the way through the school year now and Riley has not fussed about Aiden being gone for the longest time. It was great preperation for February when Aiden starts full time kindergarten.

The first few weeks will be hard, but she will adapt. :hug99:

[Jayne]

Every year for the past 5 years we have gone through a bit of this. Alyssa was so sad that Tylor got to go off to school and she was left here behind. Preschool started and she was happy but still upset that she couldn't get on the bus and go off like her big brother. This year it is her turn finally and she is so excited about it. However he gets to start 3 day's before her so I still get to deal with it :lol:

In the past I try to make day one all about Tylor. We try to get up early, have a nice breakfast and relax and take our time. We all walk to the bus stop together and send him off. We also all would meet him at the bus stop at the end of the day together and ask how the day went. However I made it special for Alyssa also. We took her to lunch that day. She got to pick where to go and then we would do either a park day or a day at the play place in the mall. That way she had a good day too and knew that now that her big brother was in school we could spend special time together as well. I told her that we couldn't do it every day but we could have special day's here and there and she loved that. SHe also really loved the time she spent helping me out as a Nanny. So I would think that Alexis will find out just how fun it is to play with her baby brother now that her big brother isn't in the way :lol:

I am sure the first day or so will be hard but she will get the idea and have a great time. I also did a lot of "School" with Alyssa when Tylor was gone and she loved that!