August 31, 2005: As listeners to my show know, I’ve been dreading/looking forward to today, the first day of Kindergarten. How would Sasha do?

Things didn’t look good when he work up. “I don’t WANT to go to school,” he cried. I had a long talk with him about someone could have two feelings about the same thing. After breakfast and getting dressed, Sasha told me “Guess what? I still feel excited and scared, but now I feel more excited than scared!”

Sure enough, he went to school with a smile, and parted without a tear. On his part, at least (I was half a mess).

Talking with the other parents, they all told me that all the kids were worried and upset this morning. Half arrived with red-rimmed eyes. But not my boy!

Here he is walking to class.

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