Dear families:
Once again we address you with the illusion of a new course to be released.
We can’t deny it, we love the smell of new stories, carefully decorating the classrooms, planning the teaching, organizing the activities we are going to share with you… but above all we love to see the faces of your little ones excited and expectant in equal parts during the first time they enter the nursery school.
You already know that with the beginning of the school year we start the adaptation period, which is just one of the many big steps that your children will have to take to achieve their future personal autonomy:
– Adaptation of you, as parents, to the new experience of separating from the most precious thing you have.
– Adaptation of the professionals who will be in charge of their care and do not yet know the children in depth.
– And, above all, adaptation of children who face the double challenge of separating from their protective and attachment figures, and allowing them to establish new affective bonds with other adults and peers.
In order to successfully face this period, we ask above all for your trust in the Hormiguitas team, but above all in your children and in their ability to overcome this small challenge, and for time.
To try to deal with this process in the best possible way, here are a few tips that may help you:
– The first step to a good adaptation is your own peace of mind, and the verbal and corporal message that you transmit every day to your children in relation to the nursery school.
– Talk naturally with the children about nursery school, even if they seem too young to understand you.
– In the days prior to the beginning of the school year, it would be convenient to change the summer schedules, so that they can adapt to the new time rhythms.
– Try to get them to accompany you to buy their school bag, or the labels to mark their clothes, involving them in the process.
– As far as possible, have mom and/or dad pick up the children in person the first few days, even if you have to delegate this function to other family members or people you trust.
– Do not minimize their grief, show that you understand them, but show firmness and serenity in the separations.
– Do not compare the reaction of the little one with that of his or her siblings, or with that of the children of friends and acquaintances, because each child needs his or her time and we must give it to him or her.
As we told you in the preparation meeting for the successful incorporation of the children, we remain at your disposal for whatever you may need, and do not hesitate to consult us about any aspect that may concern you.
After all this, we can only say… WELCOME TO HORMIGUITAS… THE ADVENTURE BEGINS!!!
