School Trama Drama.

School has really presented a challenge for us in the past three weeks. Here in Davis they "tend" to hold back the kids so they are totally ready for kinder. I totally love this because we tried two weeks of Kinder for Gabe and it was a night mare. He was just so over cooked by the end of the day. He loved being there, loved doing what they were doing, but really struggled socially.

This was not a shocker for any of us. I had had so many reservations about putting him in. I just didn't want to be too over protective and not let him attempt it.
He was fried after a four day in a row stint. The kids were all older by a good year. So socially he was being ousted. He started getting the negative feedback from the other kids and he began to meltdown. I couldn't put him through it. Well not yet anyway. He will be going to preschool where he is going to struggle for the first two or three months until he gets the schedule and the routine down. He is really sensitive to activity changes. The problem is he is so darn cute about everything. Even melting down.
If we had the reverse problem. (Accedemically behind and socially up to speed) He would still be attending. I just can't put in a social grace where a year will place it for him. He is going to be great. He just needs sometime to warm up to the set up of kindergarten.

So this week we have been on tour, searching for preschools from State funded, to Montessori, to other crazy cool programs. There are so many programs available in the area I have a hard time choosing. There is one common theme in all the schools is CASH flow to get them in. Some programs we have visited have been more expensive than our RENT.
Tomorrow is our last "visit" to another program. I just hope we can find one that works for him.