Okay, so I used the word, “Blitz” in this post’s title, but I’m using it in the less aggressive sense of its meaning. What I’m trying to say is that I’m currently existing in the back-to-school mode, where a lot of my concentration right now involves managing all of the chaos that comes with getting three children (two in college and one in elementary school) off to a great start in this new academic year. For those of you who have school-age children, do you sometimes feel like you and your child are getting hit from every possible direction when the beginning of the school year comes around? I know I do…every time. It’s not like you don’t know it’s coming; but it’s almost like having a huge summer break doesn’t quite put you in an optimal defense mode and it definitely doesn’t help prepare you for any kind of sustainable offence. (Don’t get me wrong though….I am an avid proponent of lengthy summer breaks. Please never take them away). I’m just making an observation that the summer R&R periods don’t usually set you up for smooth maneuvering during the Back-to-School-Blitz.
For me personally, not only am I learning how to navigate through life in the blogosphere, but I (like most other parents) am wading through the early rising and night-time settling, school clothes and supplies shopping, lunch and backpack packing, homework checking, school bus catching, parent orientation attending, note signing, extra-curricular activity managing, and dorm and college life adjusting barrage of incoming. So, the way I see it is that one of the responsibilities of my Degrees of Maternity job description is to get us both through this recurring battle with the least amount of war wounds possible. I can’t, in all honesty, promise that you’ll come out totally unscathed; however, I do guarantee that the information I’ll be providing you with will make you and your child’s lives a little less stressful right about now and throughout the remainder of the school year. It just takes you implementing the tactics I brief you with.
Here are my thoughts. I’m going to lay out for you some tried and true frameworks for brick-and-mortar schooled as well as homeschooled children…some tips and suggestions that can get your family unit closer to achieving a successful academic year.
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