Having a positive attitude will help with your child's first day of school

Jonathan deBurca Butler talks to child psychologist David Carey who says readiness not age is what matters when starting school and advises parents to be wary of passing their anxiety on to their child.

ACCORDING to my mother, I did not cry on my first day at school.

“You set off full of enthusiasm,” she texted me in reply to a question I had sent, “which quickly changed when you discovered there were 29 other children and mums. Your chin wobbled a bit alright and you did suddenly become a little reluctant.”