's short
story examines the difficulties both children and parents can have in adapting to a new
situation, such as, in this story, the first few weeks of kindergarten.
The
narrator hints at her young son's change in attitude from the first paragraph.
The day my son Laurie started kindergarten he renounced corduroy
overalls with bibs and began wearing blue jeans with a belt; I watched him go off the first
morning with the older girl next door, seeing clearly that an era of my life was ended, my
sweet-voiced nursery-school tot replaced by a long- trousered, swaggering...
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