Congratulations! Your preschooler is growing up and school beckons. For many mothers the prospect of their little one starting school is "a thing" just as the prospect of giving birth is "a thing" during pregnancy. It looms in the future and, as it gets ever closer, it occupies more and more thinking time. Rightly so because Starting School is a big event in a child's life. It denotes growing up and moving on. For a mum it can mean the end of going to preschool clubs together, a change of childminding arrangements that have worked for years and a very real letting go of your little one. Many moms don't feel they are emotionally ready and the doom and gloom of others in the same boat doesn't help.