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[to the provider���s] a little early and found him in a bassinet. His bottle was empty and lying aginst a wall. TIPS FOR PARENTS TO PREPARE FOR SCHOOL ��� Don���t Linger. Drop the kids off. Kiss. Hug. Leave. ��� No Fear. Parents can call as much as they want to check on their children. Get comfortable. Get acquainted with the teachers and the directors. Keep the dialogue open. TIPS FOR PREPARING KIDS FOR SCHOOL ��� Communication. Talk to your child about going to school. Transition is the biggest part. Kids are really good at bouncing back, but parents have a hard time. ���You���re going to big boy school, let���s get your book bag��� Really prepare. ��� Play Dates. Take the child to the school for a day the week before they are to start. Get them in the habit of knowing what the schedule is going to be like. If kids don���t know what to expect, they get out of balance. Show them and they���ll get it. Once they know that mommy and daddy are bringing them there to learn and are coming back, they will settle better. It doesn���t take a child a lot to prepare. This is their world, not yours. They���re ready. It���s the parent who usually isn���t ready. Positive parenting works. Be excited for the kids and let them feed off of your excitement. ��� ��� I had gone through seven providers and one day I came me out to California into a house with problems and told me to ���fix it.��� After that I was offered the job,��� said Tillman. She filmed her first season in September of 2011. She spends four months out of the year on the road going in and out of troubled homes teaching discouraged parents how to set boundaries for their households. Her job is rewarding and she keeps in touch with the families that she has helped. And they in turn continually express their gratitude for her with their return correspondence. She recently completed filming her second season. Tillman works with each family on camera ���12 hours a day for five days per week.��� Her upcoming season has her situated with overnight stays. Tillman, who holds a master���s degree in Education from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., has been working with children for the past 25 years. She treats each family she meets as though they were her own. The reality star, author and director of Happy Home Child Learning Center credits her husband and her son for standing by her in her endeavors. Zeplyn, the toddler who changed her destiny, is now at Georgetown University. ���He likes to joke that he started it all,��� she laughed. ���But out of all of the titles I have, being a mom is the best. Knowing that I was able to bring a well-adjusted, compassionate human being into the world.��� Watch the second season of America���s Supernanny: Family Lockdown on Lifetime on January 8, 2013 at 10 pm EST. Chris Jones is the editor of Fredericksburg Parent. His mother was also a childcare provider helping to nurture and educate scores of children for over 30 years. www.fredericksburgparent.NET 13