Winter has come, which means that many parents are behind the first stage of their child’s adaptation to kindergarten, and child psychologists have the opportunity to once again think about one of the eternal topics: adaptation to kindergarten and peace of mind in the family. One of the frequent requests in the first months of the new school year was, as you might guess, a request regarding the child’s adaptation to kindergarten. It’s understandable: a rare parent’s heart will remain indifferent to these shrill “Mama-wonderful!!” You can read a lot of information on this issue. Now I just wanted to dwell on one key moment of this difficult and turning point in the life of every family with a child. The main thing, in my opinion, is your parental attitude towards kindergarten. Analogy: recently in the morning at the end of walking my elephant dog (we have a huge dog the size of a wolf at home. We took it from a shelter because the owner assured: IT will never become the size of a closet. Well, well, we are naive guys...) I ran into a bearded stranger at the entrance, who knowledgeably told me: “Poor animal, he walks on the asphalt, but the dog should live outside the city,” and stuff like that. I thanked the sage for his invaluable advice and ran on. It’s the same with the garden: we all understand that it’s wonderful when a child, in accordance with his own laws of development, grows up next to his loved ones, communicates to the extent necessary for him with other children on playgrounds, on visits, at interesting events, which are now for families with kids in abundance in our city. However, life takes its toll; most modern parents, no matter how hard they try, cannot combine raising a baby, which is ideal according to all the books, and their own workload, life problems, and so on. A child is an incredibly flexible creature, so if a garden is necessary and useful for the family as a whole, then so be it. Tell yourself “There will be a kindergarten in our lives,” imbue yourself with this attitude, and I assure you: the child will very well perceive your inflexibility on this matter. Morning tantrums will begin to noticeably decrease day by day. What difficulties has your family encountered in adapting to kindergarten? How did you overcome them??