My daughters had never been separated until they started the first grade. It wasn't their first year of school, as they had attended pre-K the previous year, but were in the same class. I had requested they be placed together again when entering first grade, but they would not allow it.

Pre-K only had one class, so separating was not an option then. The second day of first grade, I was talking to the teacher of my youngest, Janet. She pointed out that Janet had just started crying out of the blue for her sister.

The teacher thought if she took Janet and let her peek in on Brittney and see that she was OK, it would calm her down. To her surprise, Brittney was in her classroom crying for her sister as well. Brittney's teacher told Janet's teacher that she also had just started crying out of the blue right before they came to see her.

The option of letting them check on each other was left open for the rest of school year. They did well just knowing if they needed to check on each other they could, but did fine without having to do that. They were little chatterboxes reuniting after school, though.

Kathy Curry

Nacogdoches, Texas

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