Visiting Your Child’s School to See What’s Going On

You can’t be proactive until you know what’s already available or happening. I deal with giftedness, remember, so this post is about that kind of child and family.

Where Do You Begin?

You’ve already chosen the school. Maybe you followed the advice of others, or maybe you researched the neighborhood to see which school your children would attend. Maybe the school is working well for one of your children but not for another. That happens. Anyway, that choice is made for now and your dear child is starting a new school year.

Begin with the assumption that everything will be all right. It sets a good tone for your children. Get together all the materials the new teacher sent you, e.g., crayons, backpack, paper, the right kind of folders, etc.) and find out all you can from the school’s website and any other communications they send you. Depending on your children’s levels of giftedness and the “luck of the draw” when classrooms and teachers are assigned, you don’t know yet what’s good or wrong or not going to work. So stop worrying.

Talk to your children about issues like how it takes time to make new friends, and depending on the grade level and if this school is new to your family, or if at least one of your children has already matriculated there, some of the students…