Three important tips from psychologists before the start of the school year

Very little remains until the start of the new school year. The doors of schools will open again for children around the world and will meet new pupils of “first-graders” and already experienced “fighters for knowledge”. The first of September will not be a psychological test for “newcomers” if you can properly prepare them for the beginning of a new period in life, and for high school students a good motivation for successful studies will be the advice “not to slow down at the finish line”.

1. Dispel fears

If the future first-grader did not attend preparatory courses at the school, it is worth a few days before the first of September to take to school on an introductory tour.
Just come in and look at the school so the kid can understand where he’s going. It would be appropriate to share your own experience of school life, so that the first-grader was as little unknown as possible.
It is necessary to focus the child’s attention on his new status with caution. Do not need to tell the child that now he has become quite an adult, that he will not be able to play the usual games now, that you will need to sit in the classroom all the time and other things not very pleasant for the kid. Otherwise, the child will perceive it so that he is waiting for many years of hard labor. It is better to talk about positive changes: that the school will be very interesting, that it is waiting for new friends and knowledge.
Parents must go with the first-grader to the ceremonial events dedicated to the beginning of the new school year, and after the end of the first school day to ask about his impressions, observation and of course about the first teacher, because the first a few years at school, the figure of a teacher is extremely important.

2. Good memories

Parents whose children go to school not for the first time, it is worth remembering the good moments from the last school year.
The peculiarity of school knowledge is that they are aimed mainly at training the intellect, forming a horizon. One of the main dividends of such education is the social recognition that children receive from adults. You need to remind your child that he is your pride, and this year he will not let you down. It is necessary to delegate this responsibility to him, and not to begin to lament that again it is necessary to do lessons with him.
If the child was not praised during the last school year for real achievements, even if small, he will be associated with the school extremely depressive feelings.

3. Refrain from moralteachings

Parents should not devalue the experiences of schoolchildren, who may be sorry that the summer is over, and classes begin again.
If the child regrets that the summer is over, you need to worry a little with him. To tell him that it is really sad, but ahead of the next vacation, and at school he will see old friends and a favorite teacher. In other words, to join the child, to his experience. If he is sad, then they need a little sadness. And of course without moral teachings.
High school students need a special approach, because in high school education becomes “not just abstractly developing, but fateful.
The older the children, the more often they should be asked how they see september 1. Teenagers already find it difficult to impose clothes and a certain code of behavior, they will not be able to take a hand and take them to school. The interests of teenagers and their parents are already concerned more than the future, so the main motivation will be the advice not to save in the final, having studied for so long, and quickly determine with the choice of profession.