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Starting preschool: How to handle saying goodbyes?
Before the age of two, the child undergoes a series of developmental changes making them ready for a new social environment. Although the parents are still the most important people in their world, children now need an expansion of their social horizons: the experience of a peer group, of beingsocially independent. This is a big and valuable step: learning...