Sending Kids to Preschool

Bonding with children is an article that gives tips about how to deal with a toddler who doesn't want to go to preschool. It's a good article with good tips.

I have a better tip, but it only works if you start when the children are babies: Once they are 6 months or so, get them out of the house at a daycare or sitter's or trusted friend's (trade childcare, if need be) as often as possible for at least a few hours, even if you don't work or don't need to have them watched by someone else. Experience (and common sense) show me that children who have always been watched by someone other than a parent do not find preschool threatening or scary. My own boy never shed one tear, and in fact, loved preschool from the very first day. He had been watched by a friend a few hours a day, 4 days a week, since he was 6 weeks old.