A lovely book about Charles and Lola 'I am absolutely too young to go to schools' really got me thinking about small children and rites of passage. Any discussion about schools so often ends up with comments, such as 'well it never did me any harm'. Not really what I am asking! If a child has not attended play-school, or pre-school, how easy is it to make the transition, both for child and parents?
In the UK, children tend to start school earlier than in other European countries, and it is important to look at 'learning' as well as 'social life'. Having grown up myself with lots of parental criticism about schools, it was hard as a child to go to school, and not feel disloyal if I happened to enjoy myself. Somehow, I wasn't meant to, so I quickly developed a double life!
It took many years before I realised that I did not have to live a life of appeasement, and be a young mediator between home and school!
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