Hi,
My three are together for their Kindergarten (1st year of school) year and i would dearly love to keep them together for future years.
At the end of our school year, in December, we will be asked if we have any preferences..... I want to give them 100 reasons to keep them together.
Can any like minded mums out there help me out for reasons TO keep them together. I have about 5 but any others would be really appreciated.
regards,
Oz
ggb
May05

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I have since decided to separate my son next year. As we had a school friend (a boy) come to stay for 3 days. And for those 3 days he chose to sleep with the girls, eat between the two girls and play with them only. My son, had his nose right out of joint. Next year I will put him in a separate class, so he will meet boys that dont know the girls.
Oz
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It's really good for them. Our dynamics were different with four, but we separated into two classes (there were only two per grade in our school) and switched which two were together each year. It's often more for the convenience of the mother, and the mother's fears of separating them, but they will be fine. Now mine enjoy having classes without another brother in there.

Heather, BBBB (two identical, two fraternal) 28 1/2 weeks, now age 18!

Mine will be entering Kinder this August. I have decided to separate one of my boys just to give him a chance to "grow"

For the first two years of preschool they were together, played together, stuck to one another and hardly made any attempt to play with others. I had them separated for preschool last year and they did so much better. My daughter has absolutely no issues being separated she prefers it when her brothers are not around to bug her. My boys would prefer to be together but its not a great idea for us, as one is super social and verbal and my other is on the quite side and never gets a chance to answer if they are together. These are the things I worry about and chose to separate them.

GL

GBB 01/13/07

I kept my 3 together from preschool through 5th grade and it was wonderful.

Our school only has 2 classes per grade and though the teachers may teach the same materials, they have different due dates, methods of grading and "specials". We also did not have the option of picking which teacher we preferred so couldn't find the best for each child.

My reasons for keeping them together were all for my benefit. My kids didn't rely on each other (though when little, I am sure they comforted each other). I liked-
1) having one classroom to volunteer in
2) one set of rules to follow
3) one person to contact if there was an issue
4) got the whole story (between the 3 that is)
5) could do the same homework together rather than spelling with one, math with another, project with a third.

What didn't happen-
1) my kids didn't refuse to play with others
2) only make friends all together
3) pick one to be "the voice", do certain homework etc.
4) fight because they spent too much time together (if you looked into their classroom you wouldn't even know they were siblings).

We did split them up in 6th, 7th and 8th in preparation for high school (where they often don't have any siblings in the class and have done fine).

Good luck in your decision



Judie and Victor
lucky parents to
Frankie 3/95
Maggie 7/96
Rose 7/96
Elizabeth 7/96