Once your kids are at school you don’t see them for a large part of every day.
Kids do awesome things at school.
They do sports days, plays on stage, get awards on assembly, do experiments with stuff, sing, dance, read weird books, write weird stories and at lunchtime they play crazily with each other…
…and we don’t get to see much of it at all.
Do you? No?
That’s the way it should be of course because kids go to school not just to learn how to read and write, but to meet and learn about new people.
People who are different.
People from other families that do things differently to our family.
People from different countries, who speak other languages.
They get to meet new adults that aren’t their parents who do things differently to us – their mum and dad.
This is real learning. They are starting to think and learn by themselves.
Whoa! Independence!
Firsts Rugby Union at St Patricks College
If we as parents were hanging around at school with them they might not learn anywhere near as much of this important stuff.
So it’s right that we should let them go and learn all those ‘people’ things without us.
But because of this, most people don’t have many photos of their kids doing school stuff.
Do you? No?
Hang on!
Actually, there is a lot of weekend and evening and even holiday school stuff we can get to see.
When I think about it, I see you parents at school all the time, when I am there myself, watching school sport, turning up for special assemblies, evening performances, the school musical, the school formal, inauguration or graduation.
Finn and Ashleigh go to the Formal together
Of course, I spend a lot of time at school taking pictures of my boys doing all that stuff.
Check out this set of pics from St Patrick’s College, Shorncliffe. My boys go there.
