Helping your Child Adjust to Nursery School

Has your child come of the age when it has to be sent to nursery school? Parting with your child can cause a lot of strife to the parents; remember unless you are totally comfortable with the concept of sending your child to pre-school, your child will also not be very happy to go to school.

Your child is going to an environment which is full of unfamiliar people, the teachers and other kids. While the school will play its fair role in making the child comfortable, even you have to ensure your child is mentally ready to go to school. The child is already apprehensive of the new environment; you on your part can reduce that. You should be totally comfortable with the concept and start talking to your child about pre-school. Familiarize your child with the activities that will happen in the playschool. For instance, let it work with paper and crayons, so that your child feels comfortable when he sees the same things at his school.

Visit your child’s classroom, before school starts, talk to the teachers so that you can talk to the teachers about the activities that will happen in the school. Start the same activities at home; this will make the child totally comfortable with those activities.

Go with your child to the school and let it decide whether it wants to interact with other kids or not. Allow your child to explore the class and its activities. Make sure the child is familiar with the class and the activities that happen there.

To make yourself more comfortable with the concept of sending your child to kindergartenschool, ask the teacher, how they handle the children in the first week? This will not just make the move smoother for your child, but reassure you as well, that your child is in good hands.

On the first day, introduce the teacher to your child and then let the teacher form a bond with the child. Let them handle your child. If you show familiarity with the teacher, your child too will accept the teacher quickly.

If your child is clinging to you and refuses to let go, quickly say a goodbye and leave. If you continue with a long farewell or just sneak out, your child will cry all the more.

Irrespective of whether your child is ready to leave for play school or reluctant to go that a staff member from the school is ready to help you with the transition. Your child will adjust faster once you leave.

Some nurseryschools begin with some familiar games such as forming a circle by holding hands and then each child tells what it did the previous day. This may be a familiar activity but ithelps in instilling a sense of routine in the child. Any activity that familiarizes school for the child is good. It will help the child accept the school more.

The beginning of school for your child is a beautiful phase in your life as a parent, selecting the correct school and ensuring your child is absolutely ready for school is the will give you joyous memories of this phase.