How To Prepare Your Toddler For Preschool

All across the town schools have started their new sessions and you must be now planning to put your toddler in a play school. However, starting your toddler’s preschool can be a little complex than what you imagined. Adjusting to preschool is tough for any kid. Even kids, who have spent time in daycare, can find this phase very difficult. So, you have to be patient with your baby to go through this transition phase smoothly. BabyCouture guides you how to prepare your toddler for preschool.

• Make the transition a fun event rather than treating it as a chore. This will lighten up the situation helping you deal better with separation anxiety.
• Preschool going toddlers need to adjust with kids of their age so they need to learn to share, care and take turn while cooperating with other children. Letting your child socialize is important to teach him or her the importance of coexistence.
• Setting up correct expectation goes a long way. Inform your little one about the fun activities he or she will get in a school.
• Read happy and positive story books about school to your kid so that he or she forms a happy picture in his or her mind about school.
• Prepare a unique and special good bye ritual that you can share with your baby which will boost up your baby’s confidence.
• Wake up way early on the first day so that you can have a calm and relaxed breakfast with your child. This will ease out the separation anxiety to a great extent and also take care of the transition from home to school.
• Never drag your goodbye session. Keep it short, simple but assuring.
• If your child is going to school for the first time he or she is bound to feel insecure about you. They feel that once you left them at school you will never come back. So, giving them the right information is essential release the fear.
• Practice listening skills with your kid so that they will be able to sit in one place and listen to the instructions their teacher gives.
• Nurture your kid’s artistic skills so that his or her muscles develop appropriately.

Follow these steps in how to prepare your toddler for preschool so that your little one can settle down and start his or her learning phase. Set a routine which both you and your baby can follow. Kids feel secure if they follow a single routine every day. They enjoy predicted activities. So, take advantage of that and initiate the transition smoothly while mentally preparing your baby for the next day.