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Preparing For The First Day Of School
from: Kyle BesserAs your child's first day of school approaches, you may have a mixture of feelings. If your child has been going to day care, your feelings may be slightly different than parents who have been home every day with their children, but you will still feel a sense of pride and apprehension for your children. The first day of school can be a scary for some children, but for most it will be exciting for them.
Talking with your children before they start kindergarten will help relieve some of their anxiety, and it will also help with yours. You should tell your child what to expect and how they should behave while they are in the classroom. You should explain why they are going to school and what they have to look forward to, including making new friends, a new teacher, and new activities. Children who have attended day care already understand some of these concepts, but you can explain how learning is more organized and what the differences will be.
Your child's first few months of school will be filled with learning activities and small homework assignments. You will have to learn how to help your child complete homework assignments and congratulating them when they complete assignments correctly.
The first few months is an adjustment period for the child. You can help your child health and education by listening to concerns, helping with assignments and participating in school field trips and parent-teacher conferences. If you have to work and cannot accompany your children on field trips, you can have their friends over on the weekends. There are many ways for parent involvement in child education.
If you did not work outside the home when your children were little and your children are now all in school, you may begin wondering what to do with your day. Some parents fall into a depression because their lives revolved around their children and they suddenly don't know what to do with all their free time. Parent involvement in child education helps both you and your children.
You should not spend your day waiting for your child to come home. You need to live your life as well. This is the time to examine your options, including working full or part-time, hobbies, finding friends in the same situation to talk to or do things with or furthering your education.
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