THE new year has arrived, and as we anticipate a better year, we prepare ourselves and our children for a new school year.
The new school year is about to begin, and children are expected to adapt to new routines, possibly a new school, and often a new environment.
Other children return to their familiar school settings but have to adjust to new academic content, accompanied by new teachers in a higher grade who have a different approach to teaching and learning pedagogy.
These adaptations that a child has to make are often not discussed and