Back To School Nightmares

If it feels like the summer holidays have whizzed by to you, then you’re so lucky. Because for most of us, it feels like we have been balancing sand.

It feels like all that has happened, is your kids have ran around with endless amounts of energy, and you’ve been running round after them trying to make sure that the house is clean, and trying to make sure that they have plenty of family things to do. And now it’s time to think about the next nightmare, and that’s the back to school one.

We’re now under a week away until they go back to school, and switching from the summer holidays routine to the school one seems to be getting harder each year. So, we’re going to try and reduce some of those back to school nightmares that you might find yourself facing, and hopefully make the whole transition easier for you!

Getting A Routine Sorted

One of the biggest mistakes that parents seem to make is that they try and get their kids back into a routine, right on the day that they’re meant to go back to school.

But how can you not see that the nightmare is coming your way when you try and snap them out of the summer holidays routine where they can do what they want for days on end, to the regimented school routine. So a few years before, start as you mean to go on. Get a strict bedtime back in place, start restricting any technology use, and get them up and eating breakfast at the same time each morning.

It’s just going to be so much easier for them to settle back into the school routine.

Getting Them Excited

They’re going to do far better at school if you find things to help them get excited over. If you’re just sending them off to school, and doing the same routine every single night, they’re going to get bored.

We think that the earlier you bring in a reward system for them, the longer they’re going to stay engaged with school for.

So once a month, if they have done really well at school, you should bring in a reward day where they get a little present, something like the Melody Jane Dolls Houses. It gives them something to get so excited over and to work towards, and the better your children are doing in school from a younger age, the more it’s going to reflect as they get older.

Dealing With Their Meltdowns

Meltdowns are going to come in thick and fast in the first few weeks, and they’re usually going to happen in the morning or at nighttime.

So to try and keep the meltdowns to a minimum, just go with their flow. Half of the time the meltdowns are happening because they’re being forced to eat this, or forced to wear that. So think about asking them on the morning what they would like to do on the night, and bend things more towards what they want and what they will enjoy.

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