As I sit here stressing about how much work I have to do to get my 3 school aged children ready for school. I thought of something, I am completely missing the point of the last week or two of summer and am I making going back to school stressful for my children?
As the mother, I have a ton of stuff I need to do to get them ready, shop for school supplies, get them registered for sports/activities, fill out bus forms, go to open houses, make sure they have their physicals, etc. That is my job as a parent, however it shouldn't affect how they get to spend the rest of their summer vacation. So, I was thinking, I can't possibly be the only parent who goes through this each year. I want my children to look forward to starting school, to think of going back to school as an exciting event and looking back on a summer that was filled with fun and laughter.
So, I grabbed a book that has been collecting dust on a shelf above my desk for a while now and thumbed through it looking for ideas. There weren't a lot of traditions relating to back to school, but there were some. One of the ones was making the last day of summer special. Some ideas?
1: Go out to breakfast, look back over the summer, maybe bring a photo album of the fun things you did this summer. Talk about the good (and bad) things that happened over the summer.
2:Take one last swim in the lake or pool.
3:Bake a cake and decorate it like a tombstone (not sure how I feel about that one) put RIP Summer of XX on it.
4: Have your children make a card for his/her teachers for the first day of school.
5: Pick out the first day of school outfit.