Musical Classrooms

 

            I was a little concerned when my twins started preschool. Whenever I try to think out possible obstacles that await my twins I usually come nowhere near the real possibilities. I assumed that they would do well because they had always had each other and so that meant that they had learned the important things like how to share with others and such. Sure the sharing thing comes and goes but my oldest had never had to worry about that as he was the only child so this is something I thought I had nailed in lieu of the future of the twins. Sharing in the extreme is what I got. The boys were in separate classrooms, not by any design of mine as I had no preference but the school decided this and I was okay with it. A few weeks into the school year Drew’s teacher wanted to speak with me. Uh-oh…this was the first of many, many times that she and I had to speak. Anyway, they had noticed that Drew was missing from the classroom at the same time the other teacher noticed she had an extra student. Yes, Drew wanted to play with Adam so he just went to him. Also during naptime Adam’s teacher noticed the boys napping together on Adam’s rest mat. I tried to address this at home with little success. “You need to stay in your own room” “You have a different teacher and classroom than Adam” “People will worry about you if you are missing from your room” etcetera. To these brilliant reasonings my little boy would simply ask “Why?”  and after considerable trying on my part and Drew not coming over to my way of thinking Adam stepped in, literally, standing in between Drew and me and stating quite simply that “He can come visit me anytime he wants.” Okay, who am I to argue with the bonds of brotherhood? The school was on their own as far as I was concerned.