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Article: If your child is starting school this fall
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- Work & Family Life
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- June 1, 2005
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Make time this summer to read to your child some books about starting preschool or kindergarten. Focusing on someone else's experience helps kids talk about their own feelings.There are good books also about making friends at a new school.
If a young child is going to be in a new building, try to pay a visit before starting school so your child can see the classrooms, bathrooms, cafeteria, office and playground.
Make sure a kindergartner or first grader knows his/her home address and phone number, how to manage a backpack, how to carry a ...