The guide
A beautiful preparation for this big transformation, with rituals, play and reflections for mother and child.
The first morning at the gate is not the beginning. The transition starts weeks earlier, in you.
Most of what a child feels about this step, they feel through their mother first. What you carry from your own first days in a classroom does not stay quiet. It moves into the house, into the mornings, into the goodbye at the door.
This guide walks the whole way with you. It prepares the child through play and small rituals, and it prepares you by asking the questions almost nobody asks a mother before she hands her child over.
Remembering your own transition first, so the fear does not arrive out of nowhere
Who is actually speaking inside you: the inner child or the inner critic
What your child picks up even when you say nothing
Rituals and play for the weeks before the first day
Choosing a place: visiting mornings, watching the children, trusting your intuition
When the way you want seems out of reach
The goodbye at the door, and what makes it hold
Reflection pages for the mother, to write in
You are mothering two children through this transition. One of them is you.
Yours to keep
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