Back To School Tips For Boca Raton Parents

It’s about that time again! One of the finest features of our beautiful city (our schools) will be brought into the spotlight as we gear our children up for another year of growing, learning, and recreation. There are many givens and rather obvious ways you can prepare your children, household, and yourselves for a fantastic year ahead. For today’s Boca Raton Real Estate blog, we aim to peel back a layer and dive deeper into some ways you can set your family up for success. These 6 tips are not just ways to improve the days ahead, but create a paradigm shift in which your family runs healthier, happier, and more efficiently.

Setup A Wellness Check With Your Pediatrician

It’s no secret that back-to-school week is often, unfortunately, a petri dish for airborne illnesses. With the freedom from the daily rigors of the school week, many children exhibit healthier habits, including more sleep, sunlight, and outdoor recreation. Oftentimes, when children, many of whom have been separate from most of their school friends, return to the classroom, they bring the sniffles with them. Rarely are the cases serious, but there is inevitably an upswing in colds, flus, and strep as children return from afar to the confined, sometimes windowless spaces in their schools. Starting the year off with a wellness check at the pediatrician is always a good way to be informed about your young ones and make decisions that will protect them from the reality of back-to-school bugs and illnesses.

Audit Your Breakfast Foods

Breakfast is to some the most important meal of the day, while many others eschew it altogether. Regardless of your take on our first meal of the day, generations of children in years past have been stricken by poor-quality breakfasts that have hindered their energy and capacity for growth. Some of these foods include cereals laden with dyes and sugars, baked goods indistinguishable from cake, or lactose-based beverages that haven’t agreed with the stomachs of many children for years. Be sure to feed your children the fuel they need to grow in body and mind, and with the power of the internet, research ways to make this fun, easy, and delicious.

Check Backpacks For Good Weight Distribution

Kids rarely wear their backpacks properly, and while serious back problems may be years away, the foundation for good health starts now. Be sure to explain to your children why it’s important to stuff and wear their backpacks in the proper way. Too often, children wear one strap with heavy books, or maladjusted straps that poorly distribute their weight. If your young one needs a new pack, there are plenty of superb cases, packs, and containers that will help your child move about school without wearing themselves down. When investing in school supplies, consider the ubiquity of certain items, like their backpack, before making a knowledgeable decision.

Begin The Lifestyle Shift 1-2 Weeks In Advance

As with the rampant onset of mild illnesses, there are many ways that back-to-school week “shocks” the family dynamic, much in the way the rapidly encroaching holiday season forces us to adjust our lives faster than we wish. Plan your back-to-school routine at least a coupleof  weeks in advance, in order to solidify the shift from indiscipline, sleeping in, and eating out, to a regimented approach that ensures peak performance. This isn’t to say that the household needs to shift from anarchy to dictatorship, but you are in charge of your home and should be able to determine how far things have gone in one direction, to correct for the opposite.

Provide Immune Boosting Foods In Their Lunches

Much of our previous entries include ways to optimize your and your children’s lives to account for the potential “shock” of returning to school. While this should not be intimidating at all, poorly preparing your child by rapidly snapping their routine back into order, or continuing to allow a poor diet, can lead to negative outcomes in the early days of school. Immune boosting foods aren’t exclusively fruit and vegetables, as shown above, but many include antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds that can be the difference between a sick day and an aced test.

Create A Shared Family Calendar – Online and On Paper

This is especially crucial with multi-child households, in which on some days, the home can feel more like a transit hub than a hearth. As soon as Dad and son get home from baseball, Mom and daughter are on the way to dance, and by the time everyone is home, there is little time spent bonding, let alone preparing for the next day. Having a shared calendar makes all the moving pieces self-aware and allows for more to be done with less unnecessary communication. The point isn’t to make your family into a cloud-based efficiency unit, but to ensure that everyone is aware of everybody else’s movements, thus allowing them to plan for the space in between, and for one parent or child to pick up slack where the other has left off. 

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