Starting school changes the shape of a child’s day. There is a set time to arrive, a bag to carry, shoes to manage, a lunchbox to open, and a whole run of little expectations that can feel quite big to a four or five-year-old. That is why routines matter before school begins. Australian guidance on school transition keeps returning to the same idea: children settle more easily when daily patterns feel familiar, predictable and manageable. The goal is not to run your home like a classroom. The goal is to make everyday tasks feel less new when school starts.
Start with a morning routine your child can recognise
Morning routines work best when they are simple and repeated often enough to become ordinary. Wake up, breakfast, toilet, teeth, dressed, shoes on, bag check, out the door. That sequence does not need to be fancy. It just needs to stay fairly … Read More