Misty,

Why are you getting so nervous over this? Because this is your baby. Because it is hard to trust anyone but yourself to give your child meds. How could they love them any more than you? But I am here to tell you this. With every year, you will gain a little more trust and a little more trust. My best advice to do is this. Meet with the school, go over every detail with them. If you want them to take that medical emergency kit with the Solu Cortef in it whenever they are on a trip you need to tell them that is what they are to do. NEVER ASSUME they will do that if you don’t ask them to. YOU set their standards. This is your child not theirs. But for the day they ARE theirs. So they need to have a CLEAR understanding what is to be expected of them. I have a detailed letter that goes to my daughter’s school EVERY YEAR. She has been at the same school since kindergarten but you know what, I still go over it with every teacher every year. Am I over reacting. Some may lable it as over reacting, but this isn’t their child, she is mine. I give the school the details of my daughter’s care, and leave the rest up to God. I can still remember the first day of my daughter’s preschool. She was so happy and ready, I walked out the door, shut it behind me and sobbed. I sobbed all the way to home, stopping at our local church to give my worries up to God and place her safety in His hands. It was the only way I could cope. She has been taken very good care of since then. 

Time will pass and soon school will be a breeze and become part of every day living. Look at it as preparing him for the future. How you handle his care at school is going to be the way he learns to handle it in the future. He needs to trust, and will only learn that from you. Remember, prepare the school, outline his specific needs, make sure they are met by checking up weekly or even monthly, then give the rest up to God. PEACE.