How to Help Your Child With Back-to-School Anxiety Identify your child’s source of anxiety.
Listen closely to their fears about school.
Go to orientation! Get them comfortable with the teachers, staff and building layout.
Adjust to the new schedule a few days prior to your kiddo starting school.
Hit the stores and empower your kiddo to choose necessary school items.
Prepare the night before (choose outfit and pre-pack lunch & backpack).
Follow up with your child after the first day.
Best Books to Help Young Children with Back-to-School Anxiety: School’s First Day of School by Adam Rex Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come! by Nancy Carlson The Night Before Kindergarten by Natasha Wing
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