‘We are going to meet the new teachers at primary school and my husband looks like an alcoholic’
The time has come, after almost 4 years. Bodi and Daaf go to primary school. My heart, oh my mother’s heart. Where did those babies go?
A milestone for every mother. It is a big moment: your children are little ones and are starting a new phase.
I’ve noticed lately that they are really in shape: they are potty trained (thank god), they talk a lot and are just growing up. It is the first time that my twins are separated: after 4 years they go to the big school together at the nursery in their own class, where they can develop themselves, where they can make their own friends and have their own teacher.
At least, if we can still come from the teachers.
It was awful. We were invited to meet on a Friday afternoon at 3 pm. Bodi and Daaf meet their teachers and discover their classroom. We are now sitting with three teachers at a table to discuss some business matters. When they have an adjustment day, for example. And on which days there are gym lessons. Bodi and Daaf feel right at home in the classroom and are not shy at all. They decide to play with the kitchen. Who wants pizza? Who wants a drink? They are having a great time and see mom and dad chatting with the teachers. Cozy, they think.
And then Bodi suddenly asks Dad, loud and clear: “Daddy, do you want beer?”.
Why is my child asking that? We’re all smiling happily. But why does he ask that at the first meeting with his new teachers, whom we will have to deal with for years to come? And that while we want to impress such neat, Gooian-parents-we-are-well-bred-normal-people… Oh, help. My heart. I can sink through the floor in shame. Let’s be clear: my husband sometimes drinks a beer at the weekend but is absolutely not a drinker and certainly not around his children. How did Bodi come up with that word at such a moment? Seriously, I’ve never heard him say the word beer. And then at THIS moment. Kids… Sometimes they say the most awkward things. So, if the teacher of class 1B happens to read this: Bodi is a neat child with decent parents. Real. I promise. And we usually drink tea and coffee.
Already looking forward to all the statements that will follow up to and including group 8. Was that baby time suddenly a lot less embarrassing, wasn’t it?
Tessa Heinhuis (33) is the mother of Bodi and Daaf (3, almost 4) and she lives in ‘t Gooi with her husband Billy. She is editor-in-chief of Mama Magazine and her first book on motherhood will be published this fall.
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