Getting Ready For Kindergarten

Kindergarten is a wonderful place and I want to talk about what your child needs to know before kindergarten! It is full of curiosity and learning, but it can also be a little scary for your child (and for the adults!) I can remember when our oldest child was ready to go and I turned to my husband and said: “Is he really ready?” It was the same question that I had heard many times when I was the Kindergarten teacher welcoming parents and children into my classroom. A few years ago, I wrote a post about the 5 things that your child should know before Kindergarten and it has gone crazy.   This lets me know that it was definitely something on everyones’ minds… not just my own. Negative, with over 1,000 comments.  “Research tells us that the brain development in a child’s first 6 years of life far exceeds any other time in life. Because of this, it is important to harness this time to engage kids in learning to love learning. But as a mom, I have seen all too well how quickly our children