Your child's first day in school or day care

Its the first day of your child to pre-school / kindergarten / daycare, so how do you feel? Excited, nervous, frightened.... Don't be frightened, think positive, every thing would work out. But yes, don't presume what will happen.

Take it easy. Start preparing your child in advance. Let him know that all children go to school, they enjoy, play, study and come back. Let him know how exciting it would be for him to go to a new place, play with new toys and make friends . Mention him about the entertaining activities he would get to do there.

If you have already chosen the daycare, fix an appointment with the teacher and let her know the details about your child. This would help her understand your child better.

Before getting your child to his regular routine, take your child to the place so that he is acquainted to the environment and surrounding.

Keep patience. Give some time to the caregiver and your child. Slowly they will come to know each other and will enjoy each others company.

On the very first day, don't expect that your child would comfortably settle down. Give him some time. For the first day leave your child there for an hour or so, and then slowly increase the time.

May be for a few days your child might cry, but don't worry, this is normal with most of the children. Make sure that you don't stay back with the kid, even when he is crying. Let the teacher handle this.

While dropping your kid to the daycare make shortest possible conversation with the teacher. This would allow the teacher to give her full attention to the children and it would be easy for the child to interact with other kids.

Make sure your child had a good breakfast. Keep in mind that you don't feed just before starting. Chances are that if the child had immediate breakfast while crying he might throw up every thing

Pack the necessary things your child might require there like a pair of clothes, some snacks and toys.

Suppose your child does not leave you while dropping, get him engaged in some activity and move away from there. Staying back to check the comfort of your child would trouble you more.

Avoid making too many calls to the daycare to inquire about your child, this would waste the time of the teacher, which she would have used to look after the kids.

Later after picking up your child from daycare, do take a feedback from the teacher.

Discuss with your child about his day. If he is still uncomfortable explain him once again.

Be patient and calm. Keep faith and confidence on the teacher. Let both of them go by their own pace. Definitely every thing will work out and your child would be more independent.