Nursery Prep: Separation Anxiety
• If you child is going to start attending nursery school or day care for the first time, then parents should know that separation anxiety is common. • It is a part of preparing your child for nursery school to prepare them to be able to spend time away from parents. • Upto this point in your child’s life; they have been pretty much exclusively in the company of you.
• Apart from visits to and from relatives, she has always been in your presence and your child knows that you are there to take care of their problems. • That is about to change soon, and it is only natural, suggests a caretaker in nursery school in Bur Dubai,
that
it
is
accompanies by some level of anxiety – on the part of both parents and the child.
What Should Your Child Know?
• Be aware that their feelings are valid and it is really okay to be sharing his/her feeling with you and their teacher. • Plan to get back home and tell you everything about his/her time at the kids nursery in Dubai, so that her accomplishments could be celebrated together. • Develop some strategies, with the help of mom/dad, of how to get the best out of the time spent away from you.
• In
case
your
child
has
history
of
separation anxiety, then here are a few things that parents should consider doing: • Try taking your kid to visit his/her nursery school’s classroom well before the very first day of school. • Schedule
a
meeting
with
your
kid’s
teacher and share your queries and concerns with the teacher (without your kid present there).
• Keep the photo of your child’s teacher displayed on refrigerator, and also try to bring up your child’s teacher’s name casually in conversations. • The basic idea here is making the teacher feel as if she’s a familiar person. • Long time before the school begins, help your kid adjust to the idea of spending time apart from you.
• Parents can do so by sending their child to their friend’s house to play while the parent runs some errands or taking care of her job. • Look for different opportunities to give your kid brief experiences in the time spent away from you.
• In case your kid seems ready, then consider enrolling him/her in the mommy’s day-out program or perhaps a part time preschool class or day care in Dubai. • It would give your child more time as well as experience spending time away from dad and mom. • If all these efforts seem like they aren’t helping your kid in adjusting better to spending time apart, then consider talking to school guidance counselor or your child’s teacher for further support.
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