Comments on: 5 Ways I’ll Be A Different Mom This School Year https://www.bonbonbreak.com/have-a-better-school-year/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=have-a-better-school-year Simplify. Inspire. Connect. Tue, 08 Aug 2017 21:24:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: Catherine A. Johns https://www.bonbonbreak.com/have-a-better-school-year/#comment-199952 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 01:16:48 +0000 https://www.bonbonbreak.com/?p=22567#comment-199952 I am so glad I am not the only mom who reaches unknown decibels while screeching at my kids to get up, get ready and go to frickin school! Omg u have 3 minutes before u have to leave for the bus why are you just sitting there!??! Is usually the normal phrase. Next the forgotten paper or homework/project. The bliss of realizing that my child can indeed deal with a big fat F once in a while for failing to make sure the work was done or I was alerted to any and all necessary projects. My husband and I both work full time jobs plus I have a party me weekend one. I love I'm not the only one that says "tough" when the situation warrants it.

]]> By: Joanne Fischer Jensen https://www.bonbonbreak.com/have-a-better-school-year/#comment-193675 Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:42:08 +0000 https://www.bonbonbreak.com/?p=22567#comment-193675 this was hilarious and truthful! loved it!

]]> By: Susan Watkins Roberts https://www.bonbonbreak.com/have-a-better-school-year/#comment-193674 Fri, 22 Aug 2014 22:55:05 +0000 https://www.bonbonbreak.com/?p=22567#comment-193674 I have had a child in elementary, middle or high school for 20 years now. I feel your pain. At one time I one in college, one in high school, one in kindergarten and one in daycare.

]]> By: Lorraine Teigland https://www.bonbonbreak.com/have-a-better-school-year/#comment-193673 Fri, 22 Aug 2014 17:06:22 +0000 https://www.bonbonbreak.com/?p=22567#comment-193673 Amen! What a wonderful post, Melissa! Your #5 made me get all crinkly-eyed. I have three girls, and last night I was just thinking morosely about my youngest entering full-day 1st grade (as opposed to half-day kindergarten last year) this fall. Of course I don't have the energy to do everything with that first-time vigor the way I did with her oldest sister. And of course I still owe her a hand-drawn All About Me book that both her older sisters already have. But I tell myself that she is the benefactor of two rounds of Earlier Experiments, so that by now, with her, I get to be less panicky, less confused, less inefficient, less bumbling, less distracted. And, therefore, more in the moment (one hopes).

P.S. Funny – I just told the husband that I'm not letting myself insanely-volunteer in school, either. And that he should kick me if I change my mind. I'm a better mom when I'm not stretched thin, and everyone knows it (except me, often).

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