This trick can help your child go to kindergarten more peacefully

Article published on September 16, 2021

Whether they love to go there or move their feet every morning, children can’t do without it: from 3 years old, school is compulsory. Finally no, in truth it is education that is compulsory, but given that there is still a majority of children who walk the school desks, and that it is necessary to ask for permission to do home schooling, it is the parents of these that I will speak today.

School can be a difficult time for some children, especially as they have to create new orientations and enter a totally new world, which is a little scary for them, and separate themselves from their attachment figure, which is their parents (or any other parent). figure).

If the teaching staff and the ATSEM (Specialized Territorial Agent for Kindergartens) do everything to make them feel as comfortable as possible in this new world, it can be difficult to prevent the great sorrows of the little ones, when the time of the morning arrives. separation.

But what if this simple trick could save you a few tears?

Cheer up the children with a marker

Frankly, there is no simpler tip and it can soothe the pain so much! In the morning, after the kitten’s toilet, the dressing of the heir and breakfast, you just have to create a little magic by pulling out your most beautiful marker (with sequins for my daughter, otherwise life is not worth not worth to be lived according to her), and to draw a little heart on her wrist.

For the record, when she was in the small section of kindergarten and mornings could be very difficult for her, I drew this little glittery heart for her, telling her that whenever she felt sad during the day, she just had to look at her wrist to remember that her parents were thinking of her, wherever she was.

And it worked! For several days, even weeks, she needed to have her little heart drawn on her skin to start the day at school. Each day, when she came home, she counted to me the number of times she needed to look at her drawing, and over time, her morning melancholy got better and better.

Until the day when in the morning he no longer asked me with a small heart. Since then she has been going to school peacefully, the separation is regular and she is happy to tell me about her day on the way home.

Every now and then he still asks me for a drawing, but it is very rare and does not last. He reassures me to know that it definitely means that she doesn’t need to think about us to cheer herself up on other days and that she feels good in her school.

And you know what? When she sees it in the morning, I’m a little anxious or stressed out because I know I’m having a hard day ahead, here’s what it does to me spontaneously:

I hope these little tips can help your child face the school day more calmly! And make little hearts too: it’s always nice (especially when there are glitter).