Home / School

Considering the Contrast

While home and school are two separate settings, sometimes the contrast between the two is significant. That can impact a child in many ways.

Contrast doesn’t mean one is good and the other bad - just different.

While home and school are distinct spaces, it is worth asking yourself a few questions as you start the school year:

• What do I believe to be different between my child’s experience at school and the way they live their life at home?

• How might that contrast impact my child?

• What can I do to help soften that contrast?

Areas to consider:

• Choice-making

• Access to materials that support development

• Freedom

• Limits

• Responsibility

• Language and communication

• Relational engagement

Talk with your teacher about your child’s daily life as you start the year. Think about that contrast, and what small shifts you could make at home that would help set your child up for success.

Children benefit exponentially when home and school work in partnership.

You’ll find continued suggestions here - on daily routines, talking with your child, and more - to help you to integrate your child’s worlds.