How Parents Can Avoid The Back To School Rush Hour

Schools are closed and our children are on holiday. This holiday is popularly referred to as the summer holiday and is usually longer than other holidays. It usually spans a period of six weeks.

It’s important to engage your children during all holidays, especially this summer holiday.

First of all, remember to let your children rest after a very long term. Even if you plan to enroll your children in the summer holiday classes please let them get some rest first.

To avoid the usual rush that most parents experience when the holidays are coming to an end, it’s important for parents to put some measures in place to avoid running from pillar to post.

First of all once schools close wash and iron school uniforms if they are still appropriate for the next school year.

After washing them please keep them in a safe place preferably in a wardrobe if you have one to make it easily accessible once school resumes and it also prevents you from running around looking for it when a new school session begins.

It can be rewashed if it seems moldy but that has never been my experience.

Let the summer holiday be split into rest, learning other vocations and summer school if children must attend summer holidays.

Wash white socks and singlet’s and bleach them if they’ll still be used again to make them sparkle and make sure to keep them safe where you can easily find them when the need arises.

Wash lunch boxes and school bags if they’ll be used for a new session and keep them safe when they have been properly sun-dried.

They won’t have to be rewashed if they are kept safe and never used during the holidays. Also wash school shoes if they can be washed, if they can’t please clean them appropriately.

If their books for the previous class they have passed have been returned to you please keep them safe because especially if you have under five children they’ll rip them apart.

They don’t realize the value until they get older and need those books.

It’s always fun and memorable going through your old books you used as a child. It brings back very fond memories.

Also wash food flasks and keep them safe. They’ll have to be rewashed as school resumes before use.

Remember to save for your children’s school fees if you can to avoid the mad rush when schools resume.

If you plan to enroll your children in a new school please start the search now.

Don’t wait for schools to resume and then you start to run around looking for a school to enroll them.

Take your time now and scout for the appropriate school for your children now that you have a break from school runs.

If you will make new school uniforms for your children, purchase the fabric now and keep it if you can afford it.

Don’t wait for schools to resume with the usual price hike of school uniforms and other school items to purchase all the fabrics you need.

Also purchase new lunch boxes and school bags once schools close if you intend to purchase new ones for your children because by then the prices won’t be hiked.

By about two weeks to the date for school resumption please purchase new school shoes to avoid children outgrowing them if they are purchased once schools close.

Preferably buy it once schools close but purchase one or two sizes up especially if you have growing children who outgrow their clothes and shoes pretty quickly.

Avoid the mad rush and disappointments of tailors by visiting a tailor two weeks before school resumes if you plan to make new school uniforms for your children.

This will enable you to follow up the tailor and not be under pressure since schools have not resumed.

The measurements can be a few inches up and amended to the child’s size once schools resume.

There is a special feeling both parents and children have when children resume a new school session with new uniforms and other items especially if it was your plan as a parent to make new school uniforms and get them other new items.

It gives children so much joy and happiness and leaves you as a parent feeling fulfilled.

It’s common knowledge that most parents enroll their children in summer school during the long vacation but it’s important to start thinking outside the box.

Let the summer holiday be split into rest, learning other vocations and summer school if children must attend summer holidays.

When children have been well rested parents can enroll them in online coding classes for children their age.

Enroll them in graphic design classes where they learn how to use Canva and other graphic design software.

Enroll them in website design classes, cartoon animation, video editing, photography, fashion design, catering, hair making, bead making and other vocations just to explore their creativity.

You know your children and should be able to tell their areas of interest.

My son has always shown interest in coding and graphic design, cartoon animation and video editing so I enrolled him in an online coding class along with his sister.

I teach him cartoon animation, video editing and graphic design on Canva. My children don’t attend summer classes. They rest and play and learn other vocations.

I believe it’s more important in this generation than ever to let children get both types of education, formal classroom education and other skill acquisitions because it’s now so clear that just formal education is no longer sufficient.

Every child needs to be armed with one marketable skill or more that they can fall back to once their school degrees are no longer reliable.

Probably at the tail end of the holidays children can be enrolled in summer school just to refresh their memory and put them back in a learning mood.

It’s really important to put these tips to work to avoid the usual mad rush once schools are about to resume.

Remember to let your children get some rest before getting them involved in any form of learning during the summer holidays.

Ensure to wash all school accessories that need to be washed for use when school resumes and keep them safe.

Ensure to purchase all school accessories that will be needed for school before the usual mad rush and also visit a tailor ahead of time.

Ensure to save your children’s school fees before school resumption if you can and also enroll them in other informal vocations.

Thank you for reading. Please leave a comment and feel free to contribute your ideas to other ways parents can avoid the rush hour when schools resume.

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