The day of schooling – for the youngsters it is only half as adventurous as for the parents. We almost all have these 7 thoughts when the time comes.
1. "Please what? 12 weeks vacation ???" To be exact, there are even 12 and a half. It was a three-week closing time in the daycare center and we were completely overwhelmed with vacation planning. It's going to be a tough number, guys. And really!
2. "A week North Sea for 2000 euros? Is that a typo?" Well, have you ever looked at what's going on in August in terms of vacation technology? We tell you: With an Otto normal vacationer's budget, pretty much nothing. Welcome to the three-star campsite in Wanne-Eickel! And Good Bye, Costa Brava, Miami and Sylt!
3. "How, they don't learn script anymore?" A little shocker, but somehow understandable. For what exactly did you need cursive? Ah yes, for nothing at all. And that the Lütten cannot decipher our diaries from before is an advantage in the end …
4. "Are we going to hate each other in the afternoon from now on?" Bad memories of really terrible afternoons when you desperately hung out with your mom or dad to do your homework? We would like to say something comforting now, but there will be exactly such afternoons. With you in the role of the villain. The course of life.
5. "What do I say if I don't understand math?" We can comfort you now. That happens in class 2 at the earliest. Some parents even manage the third without a mistake.
6. "What if the teacher is a witch?" Aren't we sometimes? Well, then the little ones can handle it! Quite apart from the fact that our offspring are sometimes not so easy to digest. Certainly not in a 25-fold version.
7. "But they were just born !!!" That's the way it is. And the day after tomorrow they get their driver's license, bring terrible would-be children-in-law home, and get their antlers stung, because in 2030 it will be hip again. All of this will happen without us being able to do anything about it. They are getting old and frail while we are still nostalgically shuffling through the baby department at H&M. Children simply grow faster than their parents. Remember and be forgiving if your mother still hangs a scarf around your neck so that you don't catch a cold. You don't know better. If you ask her, you were born yesterday. Well, at most the day before yesterday.