Children grow up under very different conditions and develop their individual personalities in the process. The family and the environment in particular have a major influence on the child's development and education. However, education does not only mean expanding knowledge, but also enabling children to shape their own lives independently and responsibly. Education enables children to better understand their environment, recognize connections and discover what gives them particular pleasure. Crafting or painting, for example, supports fine motor skills and promotes the joy of creative design. Spending time together exploring nature deepens your child's connection with the environment and encourages their curiosity. This developmental process begins at birth for every child, not just in the year before starting school. School readiness develops from the learning experiences that a child gathers and processes in the world around them. Through these experiences, the child expands their linguistic, motor, and cognitive skills. A child's early years therefore undoubtedly play a decisive role in their later educational path. School readiness at the start of school depends less on innate talents or chance and more on the experiences and impressions that the child gathers in the first six years of its life. However, school readiness is not exclusively linked to a child's abilities at the time they start school. The school also has a responsibility to offer lessons in which the children's abilities continue to develop and improve.

Emotional skills play a crucial role in school because they help children cope with their own feelings as well as the feelings of others. They enable children to manage stress and frustration and to deal more easily with challenges. Children are better prepared to resolve conflicts among themselves and to build friendships when they understand their own emotions and are able to communicate them to others in a positive way. From infancy, children start developing these skills, primarily through interaction with their parents. For example, babies learn how to maintain eye contact and smile through their parents' affectionate communication and response, which contributes significantly to building an emotional bond. Children learn a lot from their parents. By talking openly about feelings at home and showing how you deal with both positive and negative feelings, you help your child to develop and express these important emotional skills themselves. If rules are observed in the family and consideration is shown for one another, the child will learn to do the same. Talk to your child about feelings. Use stories and picture books to talk about feelings. For example, if a little bear is sad in a story, talk to your child about why the bear is sad. Ask your child when they feel sad themselves. Think together about what the little bear can do to feel better. This will help your child to develop empathy and compassion as well as to better understand and express their own feelings.