Back-to-school psych!
• No more “Mommmy I’m boooored!”
• No more endless laundry loads of pool/beach towels, either
• Shopping for cute fall clothes
• New crop of teachers to inspire child to greatness
• Soon, it’ll be OK to let the kids skip baths again
• That excited back-to-school thrill you inevitably feel, as if your life will get a reboot
• So long, ratty flip-flops with no support whatsoever that your child insisted on wearing every single day since May
• Having the house to yourself again
• Maybe now the kids will pick up a book?
…and 7 things nobody’s psyched about
• Approximately 157,263 forms to fill out.
• How is it possible another school year is starting already? How are the kids getting old thisfast? How are you getting old thisfast?
• Back to the old insane morning rush-rush-rush
• A new crop of teachers to kiss up to
• Endless school supply lists. Remember when pencils, a gum eraser and a marble notebook were enough?
• Return of the Pinterest guilt that you are not packing fruit kabobs in your kid’s lunchbox
• Here comes the homework again
From my other blog:
$100 Kohl’s gift card giveaway: Send the kids back to school, in style
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