6 Easy Ways to Ready Your Child for Back to School

While summer is still going strong, there’s an opportunity to take slow and easy steps to readying your child’s mind for back to school.
6 Easy Ways to Ready Your Child for Back to School
With summer vacation soon coming to an end, parents can prepare their children for back-to-school. Tyler Olson/Shutterstock
Barbara Danza
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While summer is still going strong, there’s an opportunity to take slow and easy steps to ready your child’s mind for the next year of school.

Find Math Everywhere

Whether you’re heading to the grocery store, cooking or baking, planning a vacation, or redecorating a room, there is math involved. By simply engaging in a conversation about numbers and their relation to whatever you’re doing, you'll get those wheels turning.

Better yet, show your children how math applies practically to life. For example, the next time you’re setting out to the grocery store, hand your kids clipboards and pencils and give them a spending limit. Give yourself plenty of extra time and have them help you stay under budget, track your spending, and make purchasing decisions.

Barbara Danza
Barbara Danza
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Barbara Danza is a contributing editor covering family and lifestyle topics. Her articles focus on homeschooling, family travel, entrepreneurship, and personal development. She contributes children’s book reviews to the weekly booklist and is the editor of “Just For Kids,” the newspaper’s print-only page for children. Her website is Barbara-Danza.com
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