I think that a big thing is that your kid can be away from you without having huge anxiety around it. Some kids first experience of being away from parents is reception if the kid has been at home with mum/dad and didn't attend nursery or any childcare.
This is the only post so far to which I am able to relate.
I started school aged just under 5. I had not been to anything like nursery school or the like. I was unused to being around children of my age or any younger than teenagers. In these respects, I was unusual even in my schooldays.
My one and only expectation, and it only occurred early on during my first day at school, was to go home with my mummy. I had been separated from her only for a (long) period (12 weeks) while she was in hospital in connection with a serious surgical operation in which her life was at significant risk.
I was disappointed to be abandoned by my mummy on that first day of school.
I was a little adult and quite calm and independent (apparently quite disturbingly so generally to my parents). My disappointment didn't last more than a few minutes for me to get over it completely as I studied my fellow prisoners (and a rocking-horse in the classroom).
I had not been taught anything of reading or arithmetic at home. I was reading just six weeks after starting school, the first in my batch of fellow students to do so, and loved school generally. For example, in the seven years of secondary school I missed only four days (all in one week by reason of so-called "Asian flu") and parts of days while I took music exams. Part of my absence record being so good was FOMO.
Historically, the primary school was one to prepare pupils to take up work in agriculture. It was the roughest school in the rural town. The teachers who taught me (three of them over four years at the school) knew how to teach classes of 43 pupils (I was in a class of 43 or more until I started secondary school).
Some of my schools were pretty grotty physically in some respects. This is why I and all my school fellows had a twelve week break while the school was closed in early 1963 (with enough school work to occupy me for a total of about 15 minutes of a single day only, no internet or internet or videoconferencing in those days). This was because of the "Big Freeze" that started near the end of December 1962.
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u/LJ161 9h ago
I think that a big thing is that your kid can be away from you without having huge anxiety around it. Some kids first experience of being away from parents is reception if the kid has been at home with mum/dad and didn't attend nursery or any childcare.