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Countdown to Kindergarten

A 4-Week Parent Guide to Helping Your Child Feel Ready, Secure, and Confident

Starting kindergarten is a big milestone—new routines, new adults, new expectations, plus separation from you. It's normal for children (and parents!) to feel a mix of excitement, worry, and uncertainty.

Help your child build confidence, reduce anxiety, and develop school readiness with our evidence-based 4-week countdown guide designed by child development specialists.

Is your child anxious about starting kindergarten?

What Makes This Guide Different?

Our FREE guide provides a gentle, week-by-week approach that focuses on emotional readiness—not just academic skills—creating lasting confidence through small, manageable steps.

Our guide gives you science-backed strategies that:

  • Learn how to prepare your child's heart and mind for kindergarten while maintaining connection. Discover why emotional preparation is just as important as knowing letters and numbers, and get step-by-step plans to build internal confidence.

  • End kindergarten fears through gentle exposure, not avoidance. This proven approach helps even highly sensitive children feel ready by gradually introducing school concepts and building coping skills over four manageable weeks.

  • Work through practical weekly goals that build on each other. From "no-hype" conversations to practice mornings, each week focuses on achievable steps that create genuine readiness and resilience

  • Includes self-talk scripts for parents and children, plus strategies for managing your own anxiety while supporting your child's growth. You don't need to be perfect—you just need to be present.

Inside Your Free Guide:

  • Start planting seeds of curiosity and confidence about school. Begin introducing routines gradually and support your child in practicing gentle separations through play and conversation.

  • Practice practical skills they'll use at school while building emotional language and coping strategies. Establish simple routines and confidence through hands-on preparation activities.

  • Normalize mixed emotions and begin creating predictable rituals. Practice emotional regulation tools and build connection as your child's best source of confidence for the transition.

  • Keep routines consistent and simple while reinforcing confidence and emotional tools your child already has. Stay grounded and steady—your calm becomes their confidence.

  • Evidence-based strategies for managing your own anxiety while supporting your child's growth, including what to say when "you'll be fine" isn't enough.