b'Preparing Your Child to Return to SchoolCheck yourself (looking in a mirror)notice how you are showing your emotions and how you are copingkids will reflect what you put out.Berealisticabouttheactuallevelofriskinour specific community.Apredictableroutinehelpseveryonefeelin control and safe. Follow a regular schedule. Communicatewith your child, with your school, with your network. Were all in this together. Use the phrase When you go back not if you go back - assume they will want to be part of a school day again.Notice all of the new signs outside your childs school - talk about lunch and about their favourite foods and making sure some of them are on hand, particularly for the first few days.Page11'