First days of school

It seems like yesterday when we took our little one to kindergarten for the first time and, in the blink of an eye, we are already preparing the uniform for the senior school. It is a great step that not only affects our children, that is also why we offer you the keys you need so that this time of change that begins with the first days of school passes in the best possible way for the whole family and that their adaptation to school is quick and positive.

Starting school is for our children one of the most important events of their brief existence. A stage begins for them in which everything will be new: the school, friends, their teachers, daily routines ... This novelty can generate in children fear of the unknown, a feeling that adults also experience when we have to abandon our lives. ' comfort zone ', even if it is to improve. And that, in addition, this year may intensify due to the uncertainties that COVID-19 has generated among families and school professionals about going back to school.

The fear of the unknown the first days of school

Everything changes for them, and that is why the first thing we will have to try is to convey the idea that changes are constant throughout life and that they do not have to be bad. And how do we explain that to them in a way that they understand us? It is very simple, we just have to make them see that around them, every day, changes are taking place that they do not even perceive as such. For example, the passing of the seasons, or the evolution that they themselves have experienced in their few years of life, such as that every day they are a little taller and stronger, their hair grows, they no longer wear a diaper , or that they passed from the crib to the bed .

Conversation and positive attitude with your children

The moment of separation in the first days of school is also difficult for parents and children to face. “Without a doubt, one of the most common situations that we find in children who go from kindergarten to school is the discomfort and unease they feel when they are separated from their parents, mainly from the mother, who is the one who is most usually name. The attitude of parents here is decisive to help their children make the best of this change because, remember, changes always cost us, both children and parents.

n this sense, it is very good to talk with our children at home, with time, about the new experience that is about to happen, to try to normalize this situation by posing it as something necessary and enriching for them, and to make them see the new world that is beginning and that they are about to discover ”, advises Laura Marín, Primary Education teacher.It is very important that they see their future new friends and their new teachers as part of a new stage of their development, and to achieve this, always talk positively about how much fun they will have playing with other children, and about all the new things they will learn. .

Finally, if there is something that the little ones like, it is to feel that they are not, that is, that transmitting the idea that they are now a little older and have their own responsibilities will give them more security and confidence in themselves.

Starting school is for our children one of the most important events of their brief existence. A stage begins for them in which everything will be new: the school, friends, their teachers, daily routines ... This novelty can generate in children fear of the unknown, a feeling that adults also experience when we have to abandon our lives. ' comfort zone ', even if it is to improve. And that, in addition, this year may intensify due to the uncertainties that COVID-19 has generated among families and school professionals about going back to school.

Everything changes for them, and that is why the first thing we will have to try is to convey the idea that changes are constant throughout life and that they do not have to be bad. And how do we explain that to them in a way that they understand us? It is very simple, we just have to make them see that around them, every day, changes are taking place that they do not even perceive as such. For example, the passing of the seasons, or the evolution that they themselves have experienced in their few years of life, such as that every day they are a little taller and stronger, their hair grows, they no longer wear a diaper , or that they passed from the crib to the bed .