
Parents Who Take Their Kids To School
It is either an honor or a chore to be responsible for dropping your kids off at school. The choice is truly yours. Strive to do things to capitalize on this time with your kids. This article applies to both moms and dads who take their kids to school. How many of you have friends with kids older than yours? What’s the single most popular piece of advice you get from them? With me it’s; “Take advantage of each grow up so quick”! Other times it is “Spend as much time as you can because tomorrow may never come”.
With that said I try to enjoy the very short trip to school with my daughter Cheyenne. I keep the radio off and talk to her about her school day. She enjoys her school but I know the days can be long so I try to plant reminder seeds of the fun things to come. For example “Hey Cheyenne, don’t forget, we’re going camping this weekend”. I talk about needing weekend plans as adults in my book Building Foundations By Setting Goals to boost our moods and ease the grind of the work week. This concept works well for kids too. Remind them to focus on the fun times ahead when they get frustrated or tired of being in school. Tell them it will help them plow ahead with their school work moving them closer to the fun times.
Remind your kids how proud you are of them and how independent …
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