Establishing the school routine is the physical part of getting prepared for school but one need to work on the emotional part too. As parents one need to create a positive outlook towards school to further beat the blues. Here is how one can work on that:

1. Talk: Talking about things which will excite your child to get to school. Don’t just talk about academics but sports and other activities as well. Setting little goals or targets for the session also helps motivate a child and have him thinking positively about school, rather than approach school with a vague sense of purpose.

2. Fun Approach: One way to keep the child interested in school is to continue with some fun activity even when the school reopens so that your child doesn’t associate school with the end of all fun. You could maybe plan a movie on the weekend of a school week or take him for special outing.

3. Be creative: Finally, there are a whole lot of other ways to making your child look forward to school from covering the school books with new exciting covers and labeling them with your child’s favorite labels. Involve them in collage etc like one of photographs clicked in the holidays to show it in school to friends.

4. Talk about the positive things: There must be quite a few things about school that your child likes like meeting his friends, being a member of the school basketball team or drama society et cetera. Talk about them. You could even arrange a little get-together with some of his classmates to get him looking forward to fun times with buddies in school.

5. Add novelty: New belongings always lift our spirit. You can also try getting some new school related stuff for your kids to get them excited about school. While younger children would be happy with new stationary items like color pencils, pens, sketch books or even a new water bottle or a school bag, older children would need more image oriented new stuff. Try allowing them to get a new haircut just before the school reopens which will get them excited with showing off this new look.

6. Address anxiety issues: remember that it is not just holiday blues that could have your child being reluctant to go to school. With younger children, it is usually issues like separation anxiety, apprehensions and uncertainties about the new environment and people they’d be encountering. Older children have other issues that could be bothering them like unfinished holiday homework or projects, fear of encountering a bully, not being academically with the class or fearing exams that might be beginning soon after the school reopens. Once you know the cause, talk about it with your child and do whatever you can to ease the anxiety.

7. Prepare yourself too: It may sound strange but parents too need to prepare themselves for school routine and putting your own schedule in order, lest you should find yourself in discomfort at the last moment.