My daughter attended a progressive play-school during kindergarten and now that she is grade one, I enrolled her to a traditional school. From two and a half school hours, she will be spending eight hours in school now. What can I do to help her cope up with the sudden change of school environment and school hours.

For me, everytime I pass by my daugther's future primary school, I will tell her this is her future primary school and she gets very excited each time. I also tried to tell her real situations in primary school, e.g. longer study hours, buy food from canteen, large sized classroom, CCA, new friends and etc. that she will encounter in primary school. I can say children adapt very fast in new environment and I believe she will have no problem in adapting new environment and longer school hours. If she is having hard time to adapt, try to talk to her and shower her with more love during the transition.