As parents, we now, fully understand, why it is such an emotional deal to send kids to school. It was a decision that was well talked out with the wife and I over innumerable coffees and car drives. And after a long-gruelling ‘should we’ – ‘shouldn’t we’, it was decided that Advait would go a pre nursery and get accustomed to classroom environment and a new set of discipline.
Yesterday (9 September 2014), Advait Dev, walked to school for the first time. Dressed in a funky school tee with his name plastered on the back, brandishing his ‘Bartman’ bag, a big smile on his face, he took toddler steps to his class.
Advait goes to school
Photographs were whittling across WhatsApp to grandparents and aunt in Chicago.
Coo-ings and blessings were pouring in on our phones as my bonsai-man kissed me and waved ‘bye’ to his mother.
Let us not talk about emotions here, there was a sea of it. In fact, Cubby-Cat’s mum was quite emotional watching him go into the classroom and play with toy animals and plastic locomotives. It was not as bad as the ancient ‘Agoge’ but perhaps, no less!
He is growing up fast!
I think that we parents are a confused lot. While the child is a bub and ball of joy, we want them to grow up so we can have adult-conversations and do things that we love doing. And as they do grow up and take steps from baby-hood to a bigger hood, we wish they stayed a child.
Fatherhood 