Back-to-School HomeworK for Parents
Whether you’re nervously walking your wide-eyed kindergartener to their classroom for the first time, watching with a mix of pride and panic as your newly-licensed teen drives off, or standing on the threshold of a college campus trying to keep it together, there’s something uniquely emotional about the back-to-school season.
I vividly remember watching my young boys march into their classrooms with oversized backpacks and big, brave hearts. They’d glance back just enough times to give me permission to exhale. But once the door closed behind them, I’d sit in the car swallowing the lump in my throat, wondering how it all started moving so fast.
And just last year, my husband and I dropped our youngest off at his college campus. We organized dorm essent