Easing Our Children's Transition to School

Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

JLML Press

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

It can be so hard to separate from our children sometimes! Particularly if they cry, seem anxious, or strongly object. How can we prepare our children (and ourselves) for a successful transition? Janet responds to emails from two different families struggling with goodbyes at school drop-off and offers recommendations for a helpful and respectful approach to handling all transitions and separations. For more advice on common parenting issues, please check out Janet's best-selling books on Audible, FREE with a 30-day trial membership if you use this link: adbl.co/2OBVztZ. Paperbacks and e-books are also available at Amazon, Google Play, Barnes & Noble, and Apple Books. Janet's exclusive audio series "Sessions" is available for download. This is a collection of recorded one-on-one consultations with parents discussing their most immediate and pressing concerns (www.SessionsAudio.com). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Janet Landsbury. Welcome to Unruffold. Today I'm going to be addressing a couple
0:09.5	of notes that I received about children going away to school for the first time or the
0:16.9	first time of the year and the difficulties that parents are having with separation. Hopefully
0:23.6	I'm going to provide some answers as to how to ease this issue and help children to transition
0:29.7	into these new challenging experiences. Okay, so first I actually just want to give you some
0:39.2	bullet points for the advice that I'm going to offer here and then I will get into more detail
0:46.0	with the individual notes that I received. So here are my basic recommendations for transitioning
0:53.5	into school. Number one, find a program that you can feel confident in because unfortunately,
1:03.0	our confidence level will always set the tone. Our children can't be the ones to reassure us that
1:11.1	this is the right place for them. It really has to start with us. So I would make the best choice
1:17.9	you possibly can for your situation and your child knowing your child as you do and then make that
1:25.9	decision for yourself that you're going to proceed with confidence and trust in what you've chosen.
1:34.0	The second recommendation I want to make is we want to prepare children honestly with as many
1:40.6	specifics as possible. Specifics that we know about that program. What the day will be like, what
1:47.5	drop-off will be like and what we don't want to do is whitewash the situation or try to build it up,
1:55.4	pump it up for our child, really just sharing with them the facts and not trying to dictate how
2:02.4	they're going to feel about this situation. And then the third basic recommendation I have when
2:08.6	you've heard from me before is welcome the feelings, whatever they are as you're talking to your
2:14.6	child about this situation in the weeks or months before maybe they do get to go visit this
2:21.5	establishment or meet the teachers and they might have mixed feelings about that or maybe just
2:27.0	negative feelings about it. Holding space for all of those feelings, welcoming your child to share
2:32.7	them with you is this counterintuitive way that actually helps them to feel better about the situation.
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