{"id":50690,"date":"2025-05-16T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50690"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:54:49","slug":"dad-brog-150-next-stop-kindergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50690","title":{"rendered":"Dad Brog (#150): Next stop, kindergarten"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I blinked a few times, and now my eldest daughter has graduated pre-K, and is en route to starting kindergarten the next school year.\u00a0 I still have a hard time digesting that, considering that the last five years have soared by, where my kids were born the generation of COVID babies, and the world has gone through a whole lot of hoopla to get to where we are today.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like, it didn\u2019t feel that surreal when #1 began 2K and went onto 3K while #2 started a year later, but more recently, it dawned on me when I went to the last Friday sing-along of the year, that this was also the final Friday sing-along for #1 outright.\u00a0 Very soon, the school year was going to come to a close, and all the classmates she\u2019s mostly had over the last three years, almost all of them are going their separate ways, since being a private pre-K, kids are from all over the place, and despite the fact that this school is zoned for a specific elementary school, almost none of them will actually be going there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, #1 doesn\u2019t seem to grasp the fact that she\u2019s not going to be seeing a lot of her classmates again with any regularity very soon, and instead it\u2019s me the parent that feels sentimental for her that she\u2019s not going to be seeing her friends, some of whom she\u2019s grown quite close with over the years, and we as the parents can all tell each other that this doesn\u2019t have to be the end, but much like our own adult relationships, it basically is.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such is the relentless passage of time and the journey of life, and my first kid has completed one of the first stages of life, being preschool.\u00a0 She\u2019s a whip-sharp, intelligent and observant kid, that has a beautiful imagination, loves to draw and paint, and I\u2019m often floored at the academic development she\u2019s shown over the last three years of preschool, and it\u2019s going to be all sorts of emo-dad emotions in the future to see what she does next, starting elementary school.<\/span><\/p>\n

As most parents aside from myself probably opine at similar circumstances, I just can\u2019t believe that time has flown so fast, and I\u2019ve already got a kindergartener on deck.\u00a0 Aside from the financial alleviation of having one less kid in a private pre-K, it\u2019s going to be exciting to see what lies ahead in the future as #1 takes the step into the next stage of life, entering contemporary education.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I blinked a few times, and now my eldest daughter has graduated pre-K, and is en route to starting kindergarten the next school year.\u00a0 I still have a hard time digesting that, considering that the last five years have soared by, where my kids were born the generation of COVID babies, and the world has … Continue reading Dad Brog (#150): Next stop, kindergarten<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[194,193,71,192,129,83,99],"class_list":["post-50690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-coronavirus","tag-dad","tag-famiry","tag-kids","tag-nostalgia","tag-observations","tag-reminiscing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50691,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50690\/revisions\/50691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}