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• Steps
• Tips
• Warnings

Preparing a child for kindergarten can be a challenge for some and easier for others. It all depends on the individual characteristics of the child. Below are a couple of tips on how to help your child start a new phase.

Steps

1. 1 Train and get used to parting. For some, both children and their parents, this can be a challenge. If your child has never been with a nanny or other person's care, the practice of separation is a key step. Leave your toddler with a confidant a couple of times a week for an hour or two. Only practice will develop a habit.
2. 2 Change your child's daytime sleep schedule to match your preschool routine. If your child still sleeps every day during the day, it is best to put him on a new sleep pattern before he starts kindergarten. If a child is overworked while in kindergarten, they will not get the expected experience, as they will be constantly irritated.
3. 3 Assess how potty trained your child is. On the one hand, this is obvious, but at times it turns out that the child attending kindergarten is not potty trained. If your child is not ready for kindergarten, this will not only place an additional burden on the teacher, but will also negatively distinguish your child from their peers.
4. 4 Arrange a meeting with the provider with your child. At the meeting with the child's caregiver, discuss all the necessary questions. Moreover, introduce the teacher to the child - this will avoid stress on the first day of kindergarten.
5. 5 Visit kindergarten during a walk for children or a break between classes - show how interesting and fun the children are there. This will help the baby feel more comfortable on the first day. Bring them on a field trip the day before the first day to ease the transition.
6. 6 Prepare your child's mind for change. Make sure that the child understands what is happening, the fact that he will now go to kindergarten every day and be left without parents for a long time. Sometimes this can be difficult, but you can make the process easier by starting a game in which you play the role of the teacher and the child as the student, or vice versa.

Tips

• Tell us about different enjoyable and interesting activities that your child will do in kindergarten - drawing, carving, reading stories, etc.
• Try to buy a satchel. Despite the fact that a child in kindergarten does not yet need a backpack, perhaps sooner or later he will need it to fold paints or some other materials for creativity, and then the child can behave like an adult, because he already has satchel. Sometimes in kindergartens they teach you how to ride a bike, if you are not ready to do it, they can help you.
• Talk to your child about how many pleasant things await him there. For example, "there are wonderful sandboxes, you can build your own castle, you will like it" or "there the teacher will read you books".

Warnings

• Be alert to expressions of anxiety and separation anxiety.