How to ensure your children have a
productive year.
We begin the school year with blank notebooks, pages fresh and
clean. Backpacks are free of crumbs and leaked box drinks. Children wake up
early in anticipation. We try to get to school a bit before the morning bell
and start the year off on the right track.
But slowly the familiar patterns start to
appear. The kids are going to sleep way past bedtime, waking up with just a few
moments to spare. A child leaves his notebook in school and must scramble to
find a friend whose fax machine is working. Nights spent struggling over
homework for hours, studying for tests left for the last minute, assignments
forgotten, cliques and social politics – it feels as if we are going backwards
instead of forward.
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