| If your child is 2+ and if you are planning to send her to | | | | As children love animations, play some CDs at home |
| a playschool, here are some useful tips for their | | | | and tell them that they can have more of them at |
| preparation to make their journey comfortable. School | | | | school. |
| is totally a new environment for kids as they meet | | | | 6) Visit the school a few times with your kid: Take |
| new people and make new friends. Changing the | | | | her with you to the school a few times before her first |
| atmosphere at home to resemble that at playschool | | | | day to school. Make her acquainted with the teachers, |
| before they start going, will help children in adjusting | | | | so that she does not find them as strangers on the |
| well in their first school. Getting used to school depends | | | | first day. |
| upon the toddler’s nature too. Some take just one | | | | 7) Leave them at someone’s place: Try to leave |
| day and some a month’s time. | | | | them at a friends’ or relative’s place for a few |
| | | | | hours for a few days so that she gets used to staying |
| 1) Talk a lot about the school: toys, games, | | | | without you. She will know that you will be back in |
| children, teacher, outdoor games: Create an | | | | school after sometime. This will decrease separation |
| enthusiasm in the kid for the school by telling her about | | | | anxiety. |
| the playschool. Visit the school and make a note of all | | | | 8) Try different food items: Make her taste different |
| things that are going to amuse your kid. Let your kid | | | | items and varieties and see what she likes best. In this |
| know about the toys, colorful pictures, see-saw or | | | | way you can be prepared for making arrangements |
| slides that are available at the school. | | | | for their tiffin box. |
| 2) Show her school going kids: Introduce her to | | | | 9) Buy new items for school: Take her for shopping |
| some elder kids who go to school. You are lucky if | | | | and buy all new things like bag, shoes, tiffin box and |
| you know children going to the same playschool. Let | | | | water bottle and tell them they can use them on their |
| them talk to your kid about the excitement they have | | | | first day to school. |
| at school. | | | | 10) Be with her on the first day: Many playschools |
| 3) Introduce them to books: Buy colorful board | | | | allow parents to stay with their kids on the first day. |
| books and make them acquainted with pictures of | | | | You can spend some time with her and show her the |
| animals, birds, vegetables, fruits and alphabets. They will | | | | toys, outdoor games and introduce her to other kids in |
| be interested to find the same in playschool too. | | | | the school. |
| 4) Create a routine and change their timings: | | | | |
| Children should be made to change their routine at | | | | What ever the preparation may be, children do cry on |
| home according to school timings at least fifteen days | | | | their first day to school. After all, they are being left at |
| before they start going to school. Wake them at a | | | | a place full of strangers when only you mean the |
| time suitable for going to school at the right time. | | | | world to them. It is a common site to see mothers |
| Change their diet timings according to the lunch or | | | | shedding tears after sending their child on the first day |
| snack timings at school. Sudden changes in timings of | | | | to playschool. This is all about “letting go” thing. |
| rest and food will add to their initial resistance to school. | | | | Fine with it, just do not show your emotions to your kid. |
| 5) Play CDs: Children usually at playschools are | | | | Remember that it is only a temporary phase. |
| taught rhymes etc by playing different animated CDs. | | | | |