Here are some tips to ease a period of transition for you and your child. Going to school usually is an exciting, enjoyable event for young children. For some it brings fear or panic. It is part of your child s emotional development and is perfectly normal behaviour. Your child s cries for your constant attention is not because he is spoilt or naughty.
Fear is part of growing up.
You just need to ease that fear as much as possible. But there are good ways and wrong ways to do this. Everyone has to say goodbye sometime in their lives, sometimes the goodbyes are temporary, and sometimes they are permanent. For children it can be very difficult to tell the difference between a temporary and a permanent goodbye. It is often because of this that children suffer from separation anxiety.