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Fri 09 Sep 2008Tears at the school gate - and that's the parents
UNFAMILIAR surroundings, a sea of strangers, a sense of imminent abandonment, coupled with clammy, sticky hands: bringing your child to school for the first time is a scary business.
On Monday morning, my tummy was churning (probably due to the unusually early breakfast) but my grip on Number One Son, soon to be a junior infant, was firm. He didn't know I was worrying whether he'd be able to open his lunchbox under pressure of peckishness. Nor that I feared my lip would tremble in front of his teacher. And he was oblivious to my dread of an alpha mummy pouncing on the pyjamas peeking from under my coat.
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