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How to effectively prepare your child for school

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If parents prepare the ground with care, a child should take starting school in her or her stride. It is natural enough for parents to feel anxious as the day approaches for their child to take the first big step into the outside world, especially if they are the first or only child.

 Parents who have been cementing a close relationship with a child for four or five years sometimes see school as taking their baby away and destroying something of that precious relationship.

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