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Minor Issues: Crossing the great divide from Primary 1 into Primary 2

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Everyone goes on about the importance of priming your child for Primary 1.

Everyone goes on about the importance of priming your child for Primary 1.

ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO

Raymond Goh

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SINGAPORE – My daughter, JJ, started Primary 1 in 2024. Those carefree kindergarten years of noon-time naps and tea-time biscuits had come to an end, and she was going to get a taste of the proper academic rigour that is primary school.

My wife and I – like all good mollycoddling parents – were understandably anxious about this transition.

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