Jaslyn Attends Nursery

Jaslyn started attending her new school on Tuesday (Monday being Children's Day holiday). Liyun and I took the school bus with her on Tuesday. Have mixed feelings about this; she's only 3 and rather small to already be taking a school bus. Going up the bus by herself is a problem as the first step of the bus is beyond her reach (fortunately, there is a lady on the bus who would help the children up). And I find myself worrying a lot – whether she will be able to adapt quickly, whether she will be able to get along with her new friends, if her teachers will like her, etc. It's just that I feel she is still too young to have to start dealing with all these things.

For instance, my wife told me yesterday that Jaslyn wet her shorts while going to the school toilet. I began worrying if the school expects her to go to the toilet by herself, which would be a problem as most sitting toilets (even those for kids) are too high for her, and since we always pull up her shorts for her afterwards, she has not been in the habit of doing so by herself. So I brought her to school today to observe how she goes to the toilet, and noticed that the toilet seat was indeed too high for her and she had problems pulling up her shorts as her skirt keeps getting in the way.

The teacher assured me that they always supervise the child when they go to the toilet, but I find myself worrying anyway.

On the other hand, maybe it's just me; Jaslyn seems to be adapting fine – she does not seem too bothered by all these trivialities and is always in high spirits. She has also been telling us about the friends she made in class and singing songs that the teachers taught.