Parenting Four Year Olds-Great Education Debate
4/07/2013 11:23:00 AM Posted by mommy2twincesses
Just to think that DH and I are now parenting four year
olds blows my mind. It seems like such a short time ago that I was happily
growing our identical baby girls inside me and here I sit now facing the fact
that they’re FOUR………..how did this happen?!
I’ve enjoyed them more than I could ever express with
simple words and up to this point each birthday has left me feeling energized
and like a conqueror, however, the 4th birthday was a bit of a
different story. At 4 years old, its official, they’re not “babies” anymore.
They’re, *gasp*, PRESCHOOLERS! Holy smokes! And again I shout, HOW DID THIS
HAPPEN?!
I’ve been so blessed to have been able to stay at home
with our little darlings this whole time and now suddenly that they’re FOUR I’m
having to face the music that school, of some sort, is right around the corner.
Yes, we’ve discussed school plans here and there and
thought we knew what we’d do, but now that the time is actually here, I’m sick
to my stomach, and we’re totally stumped! We live in an area of very limited
educational opportunities. We’re pretty much faced with entrusting the public school
system-of which ours fair “so-so” at best-or homeschooling, and just thinking
about that scares the jeepers out of me! The closest private option is an hour’s
drive away and tuition is sky high, so that’s not an ideal solution either. Can
you say “major case of heartburn” brewing?!
At four years old the girls could start pre-kindergarten
at the public school just blocks from our house. Registration is only about a
month away and I have no clue what to do!
One side of my brain is saying, “hold to your babies as
long as you can, they’ll have to start next year-in some form or another” but
the other side says, “send them to school-they’ll enjoy it, you’ll have time to
reclaim your sanity after 4 years at home with two little ones”, so what is a
body to do?!
I’m in serious need of counseling here! Opinions?! I need
to hear both sides, the “keep them at homes” and the “send them to schools”……….please,
help a sister out!
The Twin Quizzing Continues
9/25/2012 01:38:00 PM Posted by mommy2twincesses
At 3 years old we STILL get the typical “twin” questions when we’re out and about, but the girls pretty much handle this on their own now. Just a week or so ago we were shopping and a lady kept staring and one of them piped up and said, directly toward her, “YES, we’re twins!” I almost died of embarrassment, but she seemed completely relieved and then followed with the same song and dance everyone else does. It went something like this:
The lady: (laughs) “I sure thought so, but was afraid to ask. So how old are you?”
The girls: (holding up 3 fingers) “We’re 3 and our birthday is February 2nd.”
Lady: “REALLY?! Well who is the oldest?”
M: (raises her hand) “I am, by one minute.”
Lady: (looks at me like “what the what”) “They sure do look alike! Are they identical?”
K: “Yes, but I have a freckle on my nose, and my sister has one on her cheek.”
Me: (highly amused by the look of wonder on the lady’s face) “I guess you can tell that we get this all the time?”
The conversation is wrapped up with me trying to politely excuse us to finish our shopping.
This is so commonplace that we rarely even check up and I suppose the girls don’t really think anything about it because it happens so often. But every now and then something goes awry (or someone says something totally off color and asinine) and the latest went like this-I’m SO relieved not to have to handle idiots alone now, the girls get them before I have a chance! Here’s a great example:
Again, we’re shopping and a lady starts with all the usual questions. The girls spit the answers back to her just like before, but as she’s walking off she says, “I don’t know how you do it! If I’d have had twins I would’ve shot myself!”
I cringed inside and hoped with every fiber of my being my children wouldn’t hear this, but of course they did. Before I had a chance to explain that like the scarecrow on the Wizard of Oz says, “some people without brains do an awful lot of talking”, one of them quipped, “What?! What would you have shot yourself WITH?!”
My knees went weak but my subconscious was fist pumping! I struggled to keep a straight face as the woman turned to glance back at us in disbelief over her shoulder and I found great joy in watching the color drain from her face. She was flabbergasted! I don’t know if she was truly embarrassed by her own stupidity or by the fact that she was outwitted by a 3 year old, but whatever it was made me immensely happy!
Do you get “quizzed”?! How old are your twins? Does this EVER get better? How do you handle it? Tell me your stories!
