The summer just doesn’t last as long these days as it did when I was going to school. We had a full 3 months of summer vacation and now the kids are lucky to get a 2 month vacation from school. I never did like going to school much, but I did get excited right when it was time to go back. I was always eager to wear my new school clothes I just bought for going back to school and seeing what girls I could attract for the upcoming school year. The first week back to school takes some time to adjust to. I know my sleeping pattern for summers was to stay up late and sleep late; which meant waking up close to noon. I would wake up around 6 AM when I was going to school and the night before school would begin on day 1, I wouldn’t get to sleep until sometime after midnight. It just wasn’t because that was my normal bedtime for the summer nights, but it’s hard to fall asleep knowing that school starts tomorrow. It’s similar to a kid going to sleep on Christmas Eve night, but the reward in the morning time after you woke up was much different.

If you’re reading my blog post now and your still in school and dreading that first day that is fast approaching; I will say I have different views on school now. I wished I would have did better in school now and if I had the chance to do it all over again, I would study much harder, not to mention adding a 4 year college degree to my academic career. You’re not alone if you don’t like school and there are a lot of stresses that come with school. One of the main stresses is simply the school work and it’s the one that is the most important and is the reason you are there to begin with. Just listen to the teachers more this year, take notes when you can, do your homework before all the good television shows start coming on and you can relieve a lot of stress just by making better grades. Get organized with your school work and this will help out a lot. Look for a Dymo label maker during your back to school shopping trips and this will be a useful tool that will help out this year. Color labels is a great way to help keep things organized and it comes in handy with keeping your work assignments separate. These handy little labels can be a great way to determine which classes you have homework in, so when the final bell rings for the day to go home, you will quickly know which books you need to take home for that night. I don’t have enough fingers or toes to count all of the times I got home and was ready to do my homework and find out that I forgot to bring the book home. Homework is bad enough as it is; it’s actually worse when you prepare your self to do it and then you don’t have the school books to do it with. So work on being a better student with your grades and you will see that this takes most of the stress out of going to school.

I do hope all of the school kids had a great summer and you were able to do enough that will make it a summer to remember. You will get to see all of your friends again when you go back to school and that was one thing I liked about going back to school. I’m sure there will be some parents that will be glad when the school buses start running again and they can enjoy a little time at the house without the youngsters fussing at each other, hogging the phone, taking up computer time or just being able to watch television in the living room again. It’s ok if you’re not happy about school starting back because the months until the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays will be here before you know it!