Poignant Words

With Little Prince's ongoing struggle to settle into full time school, we chat at breakfast time about what is good at school - so far he likes his friends (and he has two special bestest friends) and PE (because I'm the BEST at that). I then asked him a question that I'd often asked when he attended nursery - that I used to show him that even though Mummy wasn't there, he was still safe. "Who keeps you safe at school?" I expected him to name his teachers (two of which are the same ones as he had in nursery). Instead he looked at me with big, sad eyes and in a small, scared voice mumbled "Nobody." No wonder he doesn't like Big School if that's how he feels :-( I told him I was sorry he felt that way and named his teachers and said they keep you safe, just like in nursery. I think we will have to keep plugging away at this until he does start to feel safe and looked after.