Back when you were crying every day when I left you at school, there was a particularly bad, bad, bad time when you cried for 2 hours, the night before school. It was 1 February, a public holiday on a Wednesday. Bak was away in Cairo so we stayed overnight at Tok Bak's house on Tuesday night. When it was time to go back home on Wednesday evening, you cried all the way home in the car and continued to cry for the next 2 whole hours until you fell asleep!! I was at my wits end. I felt like pulling my hair out! I seriously didn't know what to do. I tried being compassionate, reasoning, bribing, threatening and finally just plain shouting because I was so mad! But nothing worked so I told you that I would go see the Principal tomorrow and ask for permission to let me come during recess.
That didn't work out. The Principal listened to me and said to give it time because if I were to come during recess, other kids who were still on the fence about school might cry and ask for their mom, which is true. The Guru Hal-Ehwal Pelajar, Puan Sri saw me and asked what was going on. When I explained that you were crying on a daily basis, she says that she will get the School Counselor to talk to you. So on Thursday, you went to see the Counselor and miraculously you didn't cry on Friday!! But then the next Monday was a holiday due to Maulud Nabi and the next week there were days that you cried and days that you didn't. The counselor met with you a couple more times after the 1st one. So for Feb 2012, your record was 3 days ok, 2 days cry. As we go into March, it went down to 2 days ok, 3 days cry. Then there was 1 week school holidays mid March where thereafter, you started crying EVERY day. So for the record, it went from bad to worse. errkkk....I even started giving you air doa ok. I tried about everything that I could think of. I couldn't see any light at the end of this tunnel. I had no idea how to make things better for you.
However, as we move into April - no more tears. Suddenly and just out of the blue. I was still wary because I was just scared that someday you might just start crying again for no reason but I guess you decided that you are ok now. You don't miss me as much as I think you are more comfortable with the school, class and new friends. Alhamdulillah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
