Preschool

 

Rachel started Preschool two days after we got here. She was so excited to go and has loved every day of it. At first I will admit that I was a little concerned. One day during the first week of school she told me about some of the kids in her class. I remember she started by telling me that there was a girl named Autumn and that there was a boy named Jeffery. At that point I thought it was just coincidence, but she went on to tell me that there was also a boy in her class named Caden, (I started to wonder...) and a boy named Aiden. Yep, Denial! That can't be coincidence. I knew she was making it up. For the next week she would not tell me the real names of any of the kids in her class. She would only talk about her friends from Texas. Then one day we were leaving her school and a little girl called out, "Bye Rachel!" Her dad turned around to look at us and said, "Oh, that's Rachel?" Then he said to me, "We've heard a lot about Rachel." I found out that his daughter's name was Senali, and as you might have guessed Rachel had not once told me about her little friend. After that I finally got Rachel to start talking about the kids in her class and she would only occasionally throw in a friend from Texas. For instance, she told me that during circle time she sat by Senali. When I asked if there was someone sitting on her other side she said "Yes, his name is Hyrum. He's new in our class." As you can imagine, this make-believe world of hers has brought many opportunities for talks about honesty! Things are going better now and she will actually tell me the names of her friends at school.