Many times, as parents, we create our family without having received the necessary preparations and we are called upon to play the role of the partner and later the parent without any rehearsals and practice, but we all want to build a healthy family and raise our children to be decent adults...

Children, however, are not born with an instruction manual and it is no easy feat to raise them in an ever-changing and evolving environment.

The burden of their education falls on our shoulders, but the load feels lighter with the reward that follows: a lifetime of satisfaction, pride, and contentment that the fruit of this effort brings.

Shortly afterwards, our child begins attending nursery school and then primary school. How will we initially prepare for this transition and how will we help our child feel as calm and cheerful as possible when he or she first passes through the gate of the school for the first time, and for all the following school years?

Questions such as How can we help the child study effectively? When should studying begin? What role do we play as parents when they are in primary school? - and many more - are an endless source of anxiety.

This book was written with the author's love and passion for children as a guide. Its purpose is to answer all the questions that are a source of worry and concern to us, so that we can respond to our parenting role in the best way possible.

There are no perfect parents. But there are parents who constantly want to become better and offer something more to their children's educational process and personal development.

Anthi Sideris was born in Evia in 1969. In 1990, she graduated from the Athens University of Economics and Business, and since 1989, she has been working in the private sector.

She is the mother of two children. She is greatly interested in education, as expressed through this collaborative project, but also through a number of training seminars she has attended, such as:

E-seminar: "Parent Training" (November 2011) with Panagiotis Regoukos (seminar lecturer, author, speaker - he is the first trainer to introduce applied psychology in education and organisation).

"Learning Difficulties and Inclusive Education", organised by the School of Education of the University of Nicosia in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair of the University of Nicosia (June 2014).

"Basic principles of assertive behaviour and communication," (Anastasia Sofianopoulou, Psychologist, April 2012)

"Life Strategy. The psychology of higher efficiency," (Akis Agelakis, Authorised Trainer, Counsellor & Life Coach, March 2013)

"How to achieve personal and professional goals," (Akis Agelakis, Authorised Trainer, Counsellor & Life Coach, June 2010).