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Keeping Your Sanity in the Back-to-School Madness

Recently I was perusing this post on 31 Writing Prompts for August to get my creative juices flowing and #5 hit me before I could even read on, it asked, “How do you respond to change?”

My immediate thought?

Not well.

And, this is the time of year my response to change stares me right in my anxiety-ridden face: back-to-school.

The anxiety starts to kick in a couple weeks before school starts and culminates with me feeling like I am losing my sanity come the second week of school.

BUT, I want to try to do things differently this year. Handle the school year transition with a little more ease, which inspired this post on how to keep your back-to-school sanity….

Get To Know Your Teacher

From the looks of it on Facebook, many of you already have kids back in school, or will have kids back in school in the next few weeks so I wanted to post my get to know your teacher questionnaire.

Every year I give these get to know your teacher questions to my child’s teacher to fill out and return to me. It is so helpful to keep on file throughout the school year, especially come the holidays and teacher appreciation week.

For example, one year I learned my child’s teacher’s favorite school day snack was mixed nuts, so I would bring her a little baggie of trail mix on the days I was in the classroom to volunteer.

How to Have a Painless Back-to-School Transition

For a lot of families (including ours!) the transition from summer to the school year can be stressful. But, it doesn’t have to be.

Local Orange County clinical psychologist, Dr. Jerry Weichman wrote a great article on summer to school transition tips for kids.

If you have anything that has worked in the past for your family, please share in the comments below. After all, we are all in this together!

This Bar Saves Lives

Complimentary product sample sent for review.

This Bar Saves Lives, the makers of 3 yummy non-GMO snack bars, just launched at Sprouts markets nationwide and I felt compelled to write about these bars after learning about their company with a cause.

Did you have any idea severe acute malnutrition claims the lives of upwards of 2.6 million children a year; or one child every 12 seconds? Did that just give you the chills?

We have a fresh new look…

In honor of Tiny Oranges’ SIXTH birthday this month, I thought it was a great time to freshen up the site with a juicy new look and tag line, “inspiring moms with juicy ideas for sweeter family living” …what do you think?! Bear with us as we inevitably have to work out some kinks… Continue reading We have a fresh new look…