I Don’t Want My Baby to Start School

By Barbara Fyles

Attention all stressed parents …
This new book reveals a simple and proven system that will banish the anxiety of starting school and the pain of letting go.
Simply by following this unique programme based on ten key skills areas, your anxieties will evaporate as you watch your child take the important step into school and beyond, with confidence, excitement and anticipation.
“Only a stressed parent will understand how I felt on that fateful morning as I watched my four year old stomp bravely across the playground, ready to go into school for the very first time and be swallowed up by the ‘education system’.”
Starting school can be a time of fear, anxiety and guilt, for parents as well as kids, knowing that life is about to change - forever.
Are you both ready and prepared for the challenge?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: Feb 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9781483444109

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Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 1/22/2016

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1   Be Prepared

Chapter 2   Ideas To Get Started

Chapter 3   Hygiene

Chapter 4   Eating A Packed Lunch

Chapter 5   Eating School Meals

Chapter 6   Clothes and Dressing

Chapter 7   Messy play

Chapter 8   Developing Great Social Skills

Chapter 9   And so to School – The first few days

Chapter 10   Jam on the Bread

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Barbara Fyles is a parent, grandparent and has 30 years practical experience as an Early Years Teacher. She’s a published author of ‘I Don’t Want My baby to Start School.’, which is part of a series of ‘hands on’ books and programmes dedicated to helping parents help their children to succeed in the early years at school, when stress can be at its highest and avoidable mistakes so often made.

Her other works include, ‘Fertility Secrets’, and Renegade Retiree’.

Barbara has strong views about the importance of that very first year in school; an experience not to be taken lightly as it has been proven to effect a child’s attitude to learning for the rest of his or her life.

Barbara reveals…

"I’m acutely aware that preparing a child for school is a major concern for caring parents. During my 30 years practical teaching experience, literally hundreds of parents have asked for my advice and have been delighted with the personalised programmes I’ve set out for them.

Easy to follow, step by step programmes that answered their questions and addressed a multitude of concerns relating to the basic practicalities of starting school as well as successful attitudes towards lifelong learning."

She is now delighted to be able to offer you the full benefit of her expertise in an easy to follow, step by step programme laid out in…

I Don’t Want My baby To Start School.

The programme has been designed specifically for parents who are concerned about that first, precious year at school: parents who know that there’s only one chance to make a good beginning – you can’t go back and start again.

Barbara knows from experience that following this programme will banish your anxieties and allow you to watch your child take the important step into school with confidence, excitement and anticipation.

MY SPECIAL FREE GIFT JUST FOR YOU

Because I know you want the best for your child and as a ‘Thank You’ to you for buying this book, I’d like to offer you an Extra Special Free Gift.

Once school begins, you as a parents may become anxious about how quickly and how well your child will learn to read – you know that this is a vital skill that will give your child a flying start.

So here’s how I’m going to help you.

From my book Reading to Learn I’ve taken the top 20 tips and combined them into a report along with my own personal strategies for putting them into practice – strategies that made certain that in 30 years I never failed to teach a child to read.

Now my methods are revealed for you and your child as my way of saying ‘thank you’ and to make sure your little one gets the very best start.

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Just before we begin…

Because you love him, you want the best for him… this goes without saying.

After all, you gave him life, nurtured him and for the first precious years, you cared for him unstintingly. You were there when he spoke his first word and took his first step; you sat up all night when he had colic and cut his first tooth; you dried his tears when he fell and cut his knee; laughed with him when he knocked over a sandcastle; cheered him on when he learned to ride his bike and played with him for hours and hours.

You’ve guided him and taught him everything he knows.

Now, suddenly, at the tender age of four, hardly more than a baby…you have to send him away alone, to a place he’s probably never been to; hand him over to an adult that neither of you know; an adult whose attention he’ll have to vie for with thirty other strange children; an adult who’ll take over that role of nurturing for the majority of his waking hours.

And all you can do is watch helplessly from the sidelines.

What sort of nightmare scenario is this?

Of all the problems a parent or grandparent of a young child have to face, probably the biggest trauma for both of you is starting school.

Who can care for him the way you do?

Who will know he had difficulty fastening his button?

Who will understand that he’s shy and reluctant to ask or answer questions?

And that’s not all.

Will he be able to make friends with a hoard of unfamiliar children and will his teacher make allowances for the fact that he can’t hold a pencil properly, eat his dinner quickly or sit still for very long?

And because you love him and want the best for him now and in the future, you know you’ve got to let him go. You want him to ‘get on’, get good results in his exams when the time comes; even go to university. You’ve probably read that a child’s attitude to learning is often set by this first year in school; a year that he has to get right first time – there’s no going back to try it all again.

And while all this is going on you’re sitting at home worrying and wondering … the trauma of starting school isn’t just for the child.

Surely there must be something that you can do to make sure that he gets it right; to be certain that he can cope, has no worries and is confident enough to make the most of every situation; something that will put your mind at rest.

How can you guarantee that on the first day at school, he leaves you without tears, tantrum or trauma?

As you read through the pages of this book you’ll discover the secrets that can turn the trauma of starting school into a time of excitement and anticipation. Secrets that will encourage your baby to develop into a child who is calm, confident and capable enough to take that first, important step into the world on his own.

Author’s Note.

Just before we continue I’d like to clear up one point…. I’m not sexist.

Now I appreciate you may find this hard to believe as all the way through the introduction I’ve referred to your child as ‘he’.

The thing is, I’ve had problems making a decision about this written gender issue all the time I’ve been writing this book. Shall I say he, or shall I say she? The thought of writing s/he even occurred to me, but was summarily dismissed. I was pondering a solution when something occurred to me … a memory stirred and I knew I’d found the solution.

Let me explain by telling you a true story.

Many year ago, when I was a mere child of 31 years, I was in hospital giving birth to my son. In those good old days, you tended to be kept in hospital for 3 or 4 day after you’d given birth, longer if there had been a problem.

I was in for