"I still remember how nervous I felt on my son’s first day of preschool as I waved good-bye to him at the door of Noah’s Ark Preschool," says Ellen Acuna, In-School Services Mentor. "I wondered if my spirited three-year-old would sit still long enough, follow directions, or exercise impulse control when a classmate knocked down his blocks. I know my anxiety was mirrored in him, too. He wondered if he would have to eat the snack the school made, listen to this new teacher, and - most frightening of all - if Mommy would come back for him.
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