Transitions

Today was the first day for my son’s summer camp at his new school. We moved to California from New Hampshire four days ago. My son has always been pretty good with transitions. The first day of Preschool he gave me a kiss and a hug, said good-bye – did not shed a tear. The first day of Kindergarten he got the bus with smile on his face and did not look back!

So, I was really caught off guard when Luke refused to get out of the car and cried and told me he was not going to like this school! Talk about unexpected! I took a deep breath and tried to reason with him, that did not work. So I tried humor- what we call in our house “the-upside-down-tickle-treatment” and thankfully that did work! I ended up staying at school for two hours before leaving him. I went back to the car and cried myself. At that moment I wanted to go back to New Hampshire, back to what was comfortable. I had underestimated the impact this move would have on my son and on me. I am happy to report that when I picked him up in the afternoon, he told me he liked summer camp. 

Six years ago, I had also underestimated my transition to motherhood. I was someone who had always worked with kids of all ages. I thought – I’ve got this motherhood thing, no problem! Well, I was so wrong when a few weeks after my son was born, he was crying all the time, not sleeping well and not eating well. He was finally diagnosed with infant acid reflux. Talk about unexpected! You can read more about my experience as a mother bonding with a newborn with reflux in a previous blog. 

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