This book offers support to families who are about to embrace or are somewhere on the journey of primary school education. These insights come from the authors experience in working with children and supporting families by facilitating parent education courses, studying counselling and experiencing thirty-nine years in education – ten as a teacher and twenty-nine as a principal.

There is no doubt that school experiences influence a child’s development. At the primary level, a child’s growth is immense, and this book gives suggestions and reflections on how that journey can be made more successful and, above all, a happy experience for everyone in the family. School is a powerful tool in shaping a child’s vision of the world and themselves.

Divided into 4 parts over 364 pages – Parenting Tips for Primary Years; Families; Helping Your Child with School; Anxiety, each part is broken down into a total of 27 chapters. The chapters have a total of 146 topics which can be easily accessed via the Contents. So, the reader can dip into the book at any time finding some guidance throughout the school term and year as the need arises.