A newsletter for parents of kindergarten children from the North Dakota State University Extension Service School Days Welcome to Parenting Pipeline. Parents want to help their children build self-esteem, develop creativity and reach physical, social, emotional and intellectual potential. This newsletter will help you better understand your kindergartner. It will be distributed each month of the school year. School has the same importance to a child's life that a job has to an adult's.
School is where children spend a large portion of their time.
It's where failures and achievements are measured in structured ways and where children are compared to each other. Peer and parental expectations can add pressures, too. Talk to your child about what is happening at school, such things as learning quietly and listening, standing in line to get milk, getting permission to go to the bathroom, and so on. Try role playing and practicing some of this at home. Even though the teacher has probably explained these things, Mom and Dad can reinforce them.