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Your Back-To-School Checklist For a Smooth Start
These 9 tips will ease the way for kids of all ages as they head back to school.
Returning to school, or starting school for the first time, can be a hectic and frustrating time of year. There’s so much to do and so many things to remember. Not to mention how the kids are feeling. But it doesn’t have to be a rushed and exhausting experience.
Try these nine tips for getting the 2019–20 school year off to a great start.
Take a tour or orientation of a new school
Whether your little is starting school for the first time, or your older kid is moving on to middle or high school, or you’ve moved, a new school can be intimidating. You might not know anyone. You don’t know your way around the campus. You have new teachers. A new schedule.
Who wouldn’t be nervous?
A quick tour of the campus, or a more in-depth orientation, can help alleviate some of those concerns. By finding their classroom(s), the cafeteria, lockers, and other things they’ll need to locate, they’ll feel more prepared on the first day. It’s also a lot easier to locate those things when the halls aren’t packed with other kids who are all doing the same thing.
