It’s pretty common when you are starting to prepare your preschool child for that first day of kindergarten for her to ask you, probably with tears in her eyes, “But Daddy, why do I have to go?”  And while you have your parent answers to give her and you will obviously refocus her attention on [...]

Children love to learn.  In the first years of life, there really is no distinction between learning and play to a child and they get as much fun and joy from learning new things as they do from any game they play.  So the years before kindergarten are a perfect time to use play time [...]

“Separation anxiety” is an emotional response that is so common when people are removed from the familiar that it has a medical category for it.  Along with post traumatic stress syndrome and similar emotional and psychological ailments in this category, it is at temporary emotional and psychological reversal caused by the sudden change of who [...]

If you are the kind of parent that plans ahead, then the first day of kindergarten will not take you by surprise.  When the big day arrives, the clothes are all bought, the list the school gave you is complete, teachers conferences are done and you may have even used the last few months before [...]

One of the most natural reactions your child may have to meeting the kindergarten teacher on that first day at school is to be intimidated and afraid.  The first day of school is a confusing and frightening experience sometimes if your little one has not been out in structured public situations before.  The teacher will [...]

Going off to kindergarten is a big deal to your child.  For parents who already have kids, big transitions in the lives of the kids is often taken for granted.  But to put in perspective in your life, an equivalent type of event in the life of you as an adult might be a relocation [...]

Sometimes we are not even aware how much we do to protect our kids when they are living at home.  But when you are preparing your child to go out into the world on her own for the very first time, all of a sudden it can get very scary when you think of the [...]

Each year when a child makes that transition from months at home to going back to school, there is always a transition.  As adults we might compare it to that feeling when we go off on two weeks vacation and then return to work.  Except the transition is much more difficult for youth because each [...]

If you have a child under five, you have already watched many amateur productions of plays that were composed entirely in that sweet little mind.  Role play and acting scenes out just seems to come naturally to children.  Perhaps it’s because they see it on television and videos.  But it’s more likely because children just [...]

A preschool child takes his or her signals from people around them, and most of the times that is mom and dad.   In almost every situation, the child watches you to see if this is a good time to laugh, to cry, to pray, to be serious or to be afraid.  Just watch your little [...]