I drove Elliot to the Garden Preschool. I allowed him to watch a dinosaur/halloween episode from the T-Rex Ranch YouTube channel (he loves this father/son team who act as park rangers in a dinosaur ranch):
When we arrived, I told him he had to stop watching and go to school. He started crying — this exact thing happened when we left the house for school. He was even watching the same episode then.
Well, he was crying hysterically, something he does not normally do when I drop him off at school. Miss Erin and an older teacher tried comforting him. Off he went to the classroom. Shortly later, I received this from his teacher, Miss Sam:
She wrote, “Coloring a whale. Calmer already.”
Well, he looks calmer… but still very sad. It hurts me.
And a little later Sam sent this by email:
