By -Jagjot kaur
One major transition every child has to face is going to big school at the age of just four after learning the rhymes and ABC at the nursery school at the age of 2 or 21/2. The transition is the biggest challenges in the lives of the young kids which is very difficult for them to accept and learn because earlier they are in their comfort zones and the guidance of parents. Moving to a big school is the big challenge for the small kids There are several challenges for them are -changing in the sleeping patterns, the environment is changed, teachers are changed etc. So, psychologically the child has to face many problems at a very young age. But this is not a big problem which cannot be solved. It is our duty as adults to give them the correct the right environment through the bridge of communication which can be very helpful for them to settle in the new environment and the big school.
HOW TO DEAL WITH THEIR EMOTIONS?
This is the biggest change in each and every child’s life and we all have gone through this stage of life but in a positive way. It can only be possible with the help of parents because age is a very young age and a child does not have enough of intelligence to understand the right and wrong .Parents play the major and key role in this change because there is not at all rosy for them and they have the mix feeling like excitement, curiosity, anxious etc . Parents can deal with this problem in an easy way. Be very calm and polite with your child whatever parents will make their child will understand they will grasp it immediately. So it is very important to communicate with your child and also tries to understand what your child wants to say to you. However, the intensity of these varying emotions can be too much for the young brains to take. They are very young to understand the importance of going to school. But as a parent, it is your duty to make them feel comfortable and make them go independent by letting ’em go in the school bus or taxi with other children. So that the child will feel easy and comfy as he will see the other children also of the same age going to school with him. Mothers can prepare healthy and delicious tiffins and breakfast so that they can enjoy their tiffins and go to school happily.
A child on the verge of admissions to a big school suffer from the commonest problem and signs like anxious, crying ,wetting bed,nightmare,thumbsucking biting nails, etc. these are the common psychological response to a brain a child face because everything is new to him and he takes going to school a big problem as if going to hell . A child feels separated from their parents for a long time in an unknown environment this is the separate anxiety, Another anxiety is social anxiety. Social anxiety is when a child separate from his society or the teachers and friends of his nursery school. The fears are the biggest challenges in the lives of the young children because then they have to stay away from their parents especially mother because a child cannot stay away from his mother for a long period of time.but one should know that these are the technical problems that every child face and every child go from.
AS A PARENT MAKE YOUR CHILD’S JOURNEY EASIER
Parents can help ease out the journey for their small children in a number of ways. Communication is key to build the bridge that your child looks forward to the big school but the truth is children are good listeners and they have an amazing grasping power when they are being told in the simpler ways and by not telling things in terrifying ways.
- Talk about the upcoming moves in Once the child is about to enter the big school tell him about the big school and also its importance in an easy way.
- Whenever you are talking about the big school, sound excited and happy so that a child also feel excited
- In the initial days of school days up with your child and drop him and also receive him from Moreover, not to make him feel alienated to school and make them feel comfortable.
- Tell your child the glossy things of school like colorful tables and chairs, cartoon school bags, excited tiffins, smart classes and also the stationary
- Go to school before the starting of the new sessions to make them familiar with school and
- When the child will accept the new school let him go into the school bus or taxi so that he may feel comfortable with his fellow beings.
- Let your child go and play with other kids of the same age or class so that he will feel good by listening to exciting things about the school from his own age group children
