Does anyone have any top tips to pass on to parents who found the whole child starting school for the first time a bit traumatic and sad?
The Evening Standard are doing an article on how parents, and particularly mums, cope with this parenting milestone and have asked for Mumsnetters' views and top tips.
As usual the deadline's pretty tight so if you could post your quick tips here, that would be grand.
If you're one of the mums who were whooping and cheering as your child toddled off to school for the first time, do feel free to share as well