Posts Tagged ‘Back to School’

It’s that time…that wonderful time….

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

The three words every Mom loves to hear.  Back. To. School.

Oh, it’s that time.  I’ll be talking about how to get your older kids ready for AWAY to school on Tuesday, August 30th, live on AChannel’s Morning show in Ottawa, and on Majic100 on Wednesday morning.

Then I”ll be zipping out to Oakville to be live on location at Loblaws with CHCH Hamilton to talk about how to get your older kids ready to face life on their own – from finances to food and everything in between. Tune in between 6:00 and 9:00am all morning Wednesday August 31.

And what to do once the kids are either away, or back in school? I’ll be visiting my friends at CityLine on September 7th for some tips on how to keep your family calendar organized with school and after school activities, and some help to motivate Moms to do some things for herself.

As well, you can read my Sympatico article on advice we wish we’d given ourselves as we headed out to university and college, and that you can share with your kids.

With kids heading off to 3rd year university, 1st year college, Grade 7, and littlest, but not last or least, Grade 4, I’ll have all the angles covered.  And the front door will barely hit them on the way out.  Barely.

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Back to School Already? You Bet!

Monday, August 15th, 2011

I found some great Back to School Basics for kids of all ages. It’s not too soon to shop, Mom. Or Dad.

Read the article in my Mom Guide on Sympatico.ca

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Friday, September 10th, 2010

School is back in! For many parents (okay, especially Moms), this is our New Year.  As someone who is just a tad Type A, the best part about the kids being back at school is that we have routine and structure back in our lives.  (And the fact that they’re out of the house, yes that is a definite benefit for a work at home Mom like me.)

During the past few weeks, I spent time not only talking about the kids who are going back to school in the traditional sense (Grades 1-12), but also the ones facing Full Day Kindergarten for the first time (including an in-person session with Premier Dalton McGuinty on that subject), and along the full spectrum of what to do with the kids who are too young to head off to class, to explaining what I call The Four F’s of launching your university or college bound child.  Not an easy task in this generation of the always-helmeted and accounted-for Helcopter Parented kids.

Here’s my take on all of these things:

Back to School Gadgets, from GoodLife Magazine (Page 120-121)

The Four F’s, Ottawa A Channel

Pre-School Back To School Solutions, Ottawa A Channel

Back To School & Female Frienships, CityLine


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I Came, I Saw, I Bought the T-Shirt

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

…and the pants, and the backpacks, and the pencil cases, the pens, the juice boxes…and a toilet brush. Stay with me on this one.

This afternoon I made that trip to WalMart for Back to School shopping.

It started badly enough, with my two youngest kids punching each other in the parking lot “for no reason”.

Being known as somewhat of a parenting expert, my approach was calm, collected, and collegial. I took the two of them by their wrists and said “Go ahead.” Perhaps I was a tad stressed.

Because while I have four kids to get ready for Back to School, I’ve also been doing this a while and thought I had it licked. Boy, was I wrong.

This year we have a new twist.

The “Off to University” situation. It’s a whole new level of “it’s all about me” for my teenage daughter.

“Mom you HAVE to make me spinach quiche tonight. It’s my favourite and I’ll be out seeing all my friends for every other dinner until I go away.”

“Love to, but the oven is broken.” (For real – it’s been nice actually)

“MOM! You never do anything for me!”

Well I won’t be shortly, sweetie.

Which leads me to the toilet brush and also makes me laugh because this is the conversation we had yesterday:

“You do know you’re going to have to clean your own toilet in the bathroom you share with your roommates.”

“What?”

“Toilets don’t clean themselves and the university will clean it for you, and charge you for it, if it gets bad enough.”

“Oh Mom. You’re so silly. That’s what flushing is for.”

I’ll be mailing her that toilet brush.

Or maybe just an advance on her birthday money for the cleaning.

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