The summer flies by so fast. I know you can all relate to the phrase, “They grow up too fast.” How many times have you heard yourself ask that question? It may be too hard to comprehend that your baby is no longer a baby, but beginning preschool, kindergarten, or first grade now. So how do you slow down this time?

How to Remember their First School Year

Do you need ideas of how to capture memories of their first school year? There are so many pre-done first day of school interview questions online out there. Check out this one at http://gigglesgalore.net/back-to-school-interview-printable-free-download/. It is a fun and beautiful experience to see how your child has changed throughout the school year, physically, emotionally, and socially. Don’t forget to take their first day and last day of school year picture to have a before and after comparison of their growth. For this fun idea, check out this blog at http://gbragency.blogspot.com/2012/08/back-to-school.html

For those of you who want to preserve their baby years before they start school, check out the Baby hand print kit and Baby Time Capsule from http://www.timecapsule.com/product/baby-time-capsule-hand-print-kit-combo/

Put together a cute school year gift basket for your child as a gift, with a time capsule in it, plus all their other school supplies they need in the time capsule. Let them fill out the interview worksheet included in the time capsule. Don’t forget to save their lock of hair, from their first school year hair-cut, and trace their hand to save in the time capsule.

First Day of School Survival Kit

This is not your average list you are thinking of. This is not the list the school gives you as the parent to go shopping for, so your child is ready for their first day. This is a list for you, the parent, for you to survive when your child leaves for their first day of school. What do you do, when your first born goes off to school? The house is quiet for a few hours. Do you go to work, to help pass the hours? Make sure you have this survival kit handy, to help decrease those tears running down your face, as you drop off your little one at school, in their cute new outfit.

The Parent Separation-Anxiety Checklist: (for the parent)

• Chewing gum to help you take out your anxiety and have something to concentrate on as you try to stay strong and “let it go” or let your child go, as the song sings.

• Mini journal in the car, to help you write out your immediate feelings and thoughts. Keep this journal in your Baby Time Capsule, so your child can read what you went through, years later when he or she opens it at Graduation. What a momentous day that will be.

• Your coffee, to now wake you up earlier in the morning than you are used to, due to bus pick-up times.

• Make up your own interview worksheet of questions to fill out and save in a time capsule for your child. Answer questions like, Four things I currently enjoy doing, what my daily schedule looked like before you started school, where I turn to for inspiration, or favorite tv shows or music you currently listen to.

• Create a pre-done dinner menu, so you can relax the first week of school.

• Set out bubble bath supplies to pamper yourself after work or before your child comes home their first day of school.

• Tissues, for those emotional moments as your child leaves you for their first day of school.

• Your child’s favorite toy to hold on to, as your child leaves, to feel like he or she is still with you. You may even still have their childlike smell on the toy to sniff every now and then when you want your precious child there with you, to help you make it through your day.

• Chocolate kisses, to eat and feel the soft warmth of your child’s kisses while you are away from each other. Chocolate helps anyone through their day, I hear.

• Extra make up in your purse, to touch up your smeared mascara now running down your face from crying.

It is not easy watching your child grow, so make sure to be creative and use keepsakes like the Baby Time Capsule to save your mementos and memories for years to come. Don’t forget to take care of you as the parent too, as you child goes off to school for the first time. You cannot keep giving to them, unless you are given to also. What else do you think you would like to help you get through the separation-anxiety time? Comment below.

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