{"id":1277,"date":"2011-09-07T16:35:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T23:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2011-09-07T16:35:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T23:35:38","slug":"first-day-of-school-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/1277","title":{"rendered":"First Day of School"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s that time of year and our Stella couldn\u2019t have been more excited for her very first<\/em> first day of school! She just couldn\u2019t wait to get out the door. I, on the other hand, was a bit of wreck. Our baby\u2019s first day of school \u2026 she is getting all grown up \u2026 what if she skins her knee? Will Mrs. Nichols understand her when she asks to use the bathroom? Will she make friends? And those are just the little worries. What I\u2019m learning from other seasoned parents is that I will have a list of new worries every year on the first day of school.<\/p>\n

I also worried that Stella wouldn’t remember\u00a0\u201cplease\u201d and \u201cthank you.\u201d Would she stand in line? Would she wait until it was her turn? Share? Raise her hand when she wanted to say something?<\/p>\n

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As my husband and I walked her up to her playground, I realized it wasn\u2019t the right moment for Stella to give her new teacher, Mrs. Nichols, the apple we had brought for her.<\/p>\n

Hoping to start Stella out on the right foot with some good manners, I picked the prettiest organic apple I could find at our local Saturday Farmers\u2019 Market. Did you know THE apple began as a religious tradition? All fruit was referred to as \u201capples\u201d back in the day. Then it became a luxury to buy a store-bought apple and was thought to be a very good gift to give your teacher to help with her good health. Now it is still a tradition in many countries, and the apple has become a symbol of education.<\/p>\n

I put this symbol of education into Stella\u2019s backpack and told her to please give it to Mrs. Nichols when she had a chance. Well, when I arrived to pick Stella up from her very first<\/em> first day of school, I was curious when I couldn\u2019t find the apple in her backpack. I asked what happened to the apple and her response (said with a smile and a wave of her hand)\u00a0was, \u201cOh, Mrs. Nichols loves apples!\u201d\u00a0I am one proud Mom. She didn\u2019t forget to think of others on her first<\/em> first day of school.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s that time of year and our Stella couldn\u2019t have been more excited for her very first first day of school! She just couldn\u2019t wait to get out the door. I, on the other hand, was a bit of wreck. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[62,335,801,846],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gallant_manners","tag-apple","tag-gallant-manners","tag-school","tag-stellajane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}