I got the wrong day for introduction session (child about to start school)

[Elfinprincess]

... and I feel awful. Rubbish, pathetic mother. I wrote the date in my diary (I have been to the parent's evening) and my child was due to go to their first introduction day at primary school. I wrote it in my work diary and I put it in on the wrong day ! I can't believe it we turned up today, all ready and were told we missed it. There is another one in a few weeks but I feel so awful how could I have made such a huge mistake.

Also wondered, will this put a huge black mark against my name... I hang my head in shame and have a crying child.

I am now ordering a wall chart calendar but feel I have let everyone down. Sigh. They tried to reassure me at the school that there will be another introduction day but I now feel my child will feel left out...

Any advice apart (please no name calling, Iknow I have been a utterly rubbish parent)

Lottie some mornings I might well have ironed the packed lunch. Every day I give thanks for Nick Clegg and the free lunches for KS1. Whatever other sins the LibDems are guilty of, I am eternally grateful I don't have to do packed lunches any more and for this alone I forgive them.

I remember PFBs first day at school. I was up at 6 and in such a huge stress about not being late for "proper school"!

DD was beautifully turned out with her very expensive organic cotton uniform on. In her new lunch bag she had a whole range of healthy snacks and delectables to tempt the juvenile palate. We WALKED to school of course, arriving at the earlier end of the suggested arrival window (for it would have been LAZY to drive to school). In fact it was all perfect! except for the fact that I was nearly having a heart attack of stress under the outwardly calm exterior

Of course when she got home with her first reading pink band reading book, I diligently switched all media onto airplane mode and sat down with her in the sequestered silence of DH's study to "hear her read". I very carefully followed all the "suggestions for parents" at the end. "So, DD, what do you think Floppy FEELS at this point in the story?" etc. etc. you get the sorry picture.

Nowadays near the end of YR she's in her ASDA uniform which I have sponged yesterday's yoghurt off, we have generously interpreted the Friday deadline for handing in homework as meaning "Friday morning might be OK", and she often does it in front of the TV anyway. I don't listen to her read most of the time cos she won't read aloud anymore, and I am burying my head in the sand about the logistical nightmare of remembering all the trips/concerts/shows she is doing in these last three weeks of the academic year as the activity levels in the school culminate in a fever pitch, with the teachers hitting their full on manic phase in order to survive the last stretch before the hols.

My second starts next year. I am sure it will be much nicer for him not to have a crazy mother when that happens.

Bumpsadaisie your post made me laugh mostly beacuse I can connect .

OP there will be people who didn't go as for various reasons. A few weeks into September She will have a new cicrle of friends.

I have numerous times took myds bookbag to school and home again. I have had a phonecall asking to bring shoes in when he has gone to school in wellies as I took his shoes home again.

Conversely I have had weeks where he has took his dinner money to school and back after 4 years doesn't realise his jumper doesn't belong at school.

Be gentle on yourself

The worst one I think is taking them to school in dress up ON THE WRONG DAY. The shame of doing THAT to your child.

Two children turned up at school on Pyjama day - a week early. Worse their parents (they were siblings) had dropped them at the school gate and driven off. And neither contact number worked. I only knew this as I was PTA chair at the time and we opened the second hand uniform cupboard so they could be kitted out. The poor kids were sobbing their hearts out!

We didn't have introduction days as such when I started school, but we did have a first day of term - and my mother got me there a week early!