How to get your kids ready to go back to school without stress

Please put this article back on the website in March. In Japan, the school year starts in April. Now it is just a short summer break for schools in Japan. They will be returning to the same class with the same teachers and same classmates.

For starters, teach your kids to walk in the pedestrian lane or sidewalk instead of in the vehicle lane like in the photo. Of all the stock photos they could have chosen...

This article is written for North America. Not Japan. The school year already started in April.

My kid was lucky. Professor mother, college instructor dad, and an interest in both. She was always ready for school. She would talk to us about it every day and she'd listen to us talk about our classes, so she just was a sharp girl with a desire to learn. School was a second home to her.