I know I haven't blogged in over a month... I am too busy reading other blogs and commenting and then there's the whole vacation thing (Wyoming, camping, backpacking, camping again, etc.). I should not have any excuses:) There you go...
Anyway, I dropped Big P off at his first day of theater camp. It is from 9am to 3pm, everyday this week. Just like school. As we waited for all the children to sign in I noticed something that I have never seen in my eldest son- he was a bit nervous. And I realized that he has been sheltered and has never really had to make friends. He goes to school where we go to church so the children in his classes are mostly children he has known his entire life. And the new children or children from the other Orthodox communities just fit in so nicely with this established group. He has been going to Vacation Church School every year for the last three years but there are always his buds from school and/or Sunday school there, too. Swimming lessons are 1/2 hour and the teacher rotates through the children and we are never with the same kids twice (or we so far have never been with the same children twice). We were in soccer a few years ago but he was younger.
This is different. He wanted me to stay for a while until everything was settled (all the children in their groups). So I did- standing off to the side, holding onto little p who was ready to join in and wanted to stay. By the time I left (and seriously, it was only 10 minutes later so I wasn't there half the day or anything) Big P had made friends with some children in the "red" group (his group) and they were sitting together in a circle learning each other's names and playing games.
Is it a bad thing that he is so sheltered? I don't know.
15 years ago
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