Boo-Hoo Breakfast Helps Parents Cope With Sending Kids To Kindergarten

There will be lots of nervous parents, shedding a few tears, next week as they send their little ones off to kindergarten.

Several area PTAs are hosting Boo Hoo, or similarly themed breakfasts for parents, once their children to start school. Chesak and Mackeben elementary schools both are having the breakfasts.

At Chesak Elementary, the tradition started last year.

It was so well-attended that organizers have moved it to a larger location — the school cafeteria, this year. It will be Thursday, just after school starts until about 10:30 a.m.

It is open again this year to parents and care-givers of kindergartners who are sending the little ones off to elementary school for the first time.

“We thought it was a great way for us to connect with new families to the school community, and allow the folks to bond with other parents that are going through the same feeling of having a little one off to school perhaps for the first, or last time,” PTA President Dana Wiley said. “Some parents are sad, some ecstatic, but all feel some emotion for a variety of reasons.”

The PTA provides a free continental breakfast for everyone who attends, including younger siblings, and passes out a cute gift many of the parents may need — a tiny box of Kleenex.

“We are there to tell them we have been there and it is OK, they will be fine and the kids will be fine,” said Lynn Miller, one of the organizers.