Helping Your Child Transition to Preschool

Child anxious about starting preschool

How to Make Easier for Your Child to Transition to Preschool

Is it just us or is summer flying by?! Before you know it, stores will line their shelves with pencils, binders, paper and all kinds of school supplies. Starting a new school year always comes with a lot of jitters and excitement! If your child is starting her first year in preschool this fall, there are a lot of changes about to happen in her world. Some children adapt almost seamlessly into new social settings because they thrive around new people and environments, but for others, new circumstances can be very stressful.

If your child is slow to warm up to new people and more cautious of her surroundings, then starting preschool may be a source of anxiety that she is dreading instead of celebrating. Consider the following ideas to help her make a smoother transition into the world of preschool.

Help Ringling Bros Beat the World’s Largest Shoe Drive Record!

Ringling Bros World Record Attempt

Ringling Bros. Attempts to Break World Record for Most Shoes Donated to Charity

Shoe Drive to Benefit Non-Profit The Shoe Bank, Serving Thousands of Families in DFW

Collecting more than 17,500 pairs of shoes for a charity is no easy feat.  However, if anyone can, it would be Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey and the generous circus fans across the Metroplex as all participate in a Guinness World Records attempt for ‘Most Shoes Donated to a Charity in a 24-Hour Period’ on August 8-9 at The Big Feat – The World’s Largest Shoe Drive, a Ringling Bros. Special Event.  Shoes collected at AT&T Plaza at American Airlines Center will be donated to Rockwall-based The Shoe Bank, a non-profit providing shoes to families locally and throughout the world.  Once collected and tabulated, all shoes will be redistributed by The Shoe Bank as kids go back to school.

Fun Fall Crafts: Felt Pumpkin Craft

Felt Pumpkin Craft - North Texas Kids Magazine

Festive Fall Fun: Felt Pumpkin Craft

As that all-important October holiday approaches, you might be trying to find ways to enjoy pumpkins without having to stick your hand inside of one. Here is an inexpensive activity that will not only get your little ones using their fine motor skills, but will give them a taste of festive fall fun without the messy pumpkin guts.