Does this kindergartener make me look old?

Well, Becca woke up excited this morning. She is starting her first day of Kindergarten. So Trina had to get up way too early, we got the kids dressed and ready, Cassidy came over waaaaaay to early (the knock on the door was 5:40 am) and they were out of the door at 7:30 am. I got to hang out at home until around 8:20 before leaving to go to work.
I haven't heard from Becca how she liked her first day at school though. I talked to Trina twice today on the phone, once from her not being very happy that I left the dog inside and that she had to clean up after her and the other to make sure where Carrie needed to pick up Cassidy. Neither occasion gave room for me to talk to my eldest daughter to hear what she thought of her first day of a journey that takes too long for someone so young but something I would do over again if I could edit out some of the rough spots. I'm sure she was very friendly and very assertive, even with Trina there with an opening day parent meeting. (That's why the kids were all up at 7:30 to go be dropped off at a friend's house.) She told me she was shy and I kinda snickered. I've never seen her shy. Maybe scared of new situations but never shy around new people. She is the extrovert that Trina and I aren't.
I hope Becca doesn't have to learn some of the lessons I had to -- that being mean isn't cool (I have always wanted to apologize to some of the kids I made fun of when I was young -- Jean Audette and Mark Grabazsweski) that other kids are mean sometimes, that being cruel isn't a good way to fit in, that behaving strange or odd is a good way to get attention. I hope she doesn't have to learn these the hard way. I do hope she learns to be compassionate, to learn how to learn, to be friendly even when no one else is, to be willing to stand up as an individual even against popular belief for what she believes, and how to distinguish between the truth and the lies. She is a smart kid but has never been in an organized learning environment (like I was in Kindergarten... I hope I turned out ok.) She seems, to me, a biased parent, to be the poster child of a kid who is well learned already because her parents invested in her (mainly Trina) and that preschool is not the universal solution to a problem they could not possibly try to solve.
I hope she had a good day. They say in Baseball you can tell how the season's going to go by the first at-bat (watch Major League.) I wonder if the same is true in Kindergarten.

Verse:

Philippians 1:9-11

9 I pray that your love will grow more and more. And let it be based on knowledge and understanding. 10 Then you will be able to know what is best. You will be pure and without blame until the day Christ returns. 11 You will be filled with the fruit of right living produced by Jesus Christ. All of those things bring glory and praise to God.