Back to School isn't Easy
Posted by:
Lane on
August 17, 2007 at
10:20AM EST
Going back to school is never an easy thing. When the final days of sleeping in and watching my favorite television show come to an end the blow can be quite shocking. There is no real way to fully prepare myself for the first day of school. On the first week of school I love it when my mom packs an extra snack for the car ride home. I’m so used to having lunch at 4 O’clock that I get so hungry after school. My mom also loves to talk about my day at school but sometimes, especially on the first week back, its hard to have the energy to talk about it. It helps me when my mom asks specific question that I can answer easily, that way she feels good that we talked and I don’t get annoyed or frustrated. Also the homework load can be grueling when going back to school. To help me my parents suggest that I do my homework at the dinning room table so that they can moderately monitor my work process with out nagging me about how long I spent or how hard I worked. This way they can see for themselves and only ask me questions if they think they need to. Over all going back to school is something I never look forward to and every little thing my parents do to cushion the blow really helps.
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Posted by: juff on August 23, 2007 1:20PM EST
The hardest thing about school starting for me (as a parent) is learning to not ask too many questions at first. I nearly drove my "new" middle-schooler crazy with the firing of questions immediatley off the bus. I know this is a huge mother "no no" but I couldn't help myself. I wanted to know everything about his classes, his teachers, his friends, his lunch, etc. He let me know on the second day of school that I was putting entirely too much pressure on him to remember all of those petty details and that he was fine. Now that the second week of school is almost over, I have gradually heard some details of his day. I guess this is the real beginning of growing up and learning as a mom to let out the rope a little bit! I am not sure I like it!!
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