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New faces, new classroom, new schedule... the start of school is exciting and scary for parents and children.
To calm your child's anxiety, do some summertime prep. If your child is entering kindergarten or a new school, play at the school's playground several times during the summer to create a sense of familiarity for your child. Consider making some playdates with new classmates. Talk about the positive aspects of starting school, such as making new friends, seeing old friends, and starting new projects.
But don't build up unrealistic expectations of how wonderful a new school will be, cautions Edward L. Schor, M.D., editor of "Caring for Your...
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Try to organize classroom get togethers before school starts. Post notices at preschools and local parks, e-mail online community groups asking if there are any kids starting kindergarten at your school and to e-mail you if they would like to get together prior to school starting. Then send out an e-mail telling everyone to meet you at the local ice cream shop or a nearby park or beach. Once the kids and parents have met there is a much better community formed.
Once school has started, get everyone's e-mail and plan get togethers outside of school. You will be surprised and how much the kids enjoy seeing each other outside of school (as well as the parents). If fact, parents seem to come together more for school functions once they have met other parents in the class.
We had a get-togethers all summer long, so that the incoming kinders could get to know each other. We also had a girls-only get-together once we got our class assignments. That was wonderful because the girls entered K knowing each other. We hope that will minimize any cliquiness, or at least postpone the inevitable.
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August 25, 2007
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My son started Kindergarden last year and did great up unitl about the last quarter when all of a sudden every day when we'd drop him off he would cry and sometimes he would cry into the day so much so that the teacher would call me at... read more
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My boy was very independent when he started school, but my spunky girl, who had been looking forward to her first day of kindergarten and... read more
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