Children have different reactions regarding the very first day they are to attend school. Many children are very excited and cannot even sleep due to excitement and anticipation. However, some children feel afraid of going to school. Knowing that they will loose the comfort of their own home and their parents and be left with people he barely know in place he had never been before makes him apprehensive of going to school. Because of this, many children refused to go to school and to be left at school. Some children cry and cling to their parents. This is not a good. Education is necessary for children and the first step to do this is to make them less afraid of left at school.

To make the child less apprehensive about being left at school, make him familiarize himself with the school. Visit the school a few days before enrolling or before the first day of class. Show him the classroom and other places you think he will need to visit at school. This will make the school less stranger to him and can make him feel safer and more comfortable with the thought of being left there.

Familiarize himself with the people in the school. Take him to have a short chat with the guidance counselor or the principal. Knowing that there are people them whom he knows can make him feel more comfortable and less alone. Introduce him to the teacher in advance. However, since this may not be possible, try to accompany your child to school the first day and introduce him to the teacher yourself. Sow him that you trust the teacher and that he can trust the teacher too.

It may help if your child knows someone from school such as a friend or a cousin. Find someone who is studying in the school of your choice even if he is older. If there are activities for new students before the first day of class, let him make friends to prospective classmates so that he knows that there will be someone he knows in that school.

Accompany him during the first few days of school. Knowing that you are just around and that he can run to you anytime he wants to, can make him feel less apprehensive. Reduce the time you stay in school as he begins to cope alone until you do not need to come there anymore. Assure him that you will see each other at the end of class.

Before the first day of class, tell of him of the fun things they will do at school to arouse his excitement and willingness to go. Tell him stories about your own experience and the fun things you did at school when you ar at the same age. Making him know that school is fun will make him more willing to go.