5 Thoughts Every Mom Has at Kindergarten Orientation

Looking around the school you wonder, "Is this place safe?"

Even if you're a cool cucumber as a parent, the idea of stranger danger seems to rear its ugly head when you realize: My kid is going on a bus. My kid is going to be away from me and the sweet comfort of preschool.

It's not that strangers don't approach preschoolers, but more often than not, I hear a story of kids being approached at school dismissal before the buses leave and/or kids getting approached at the park again, and again . . . and sadly, again.

And it's not just "those creepy strangers" we moms worry about. We wonder how the strangers — peers and teachers — will treat our child. Will they like our kid? Will they see all the lovely things that we appreciate about our child? Will they forgive our child for all the not-so-lovely things he or she may bring to the table as a person?