Back to School Without the Stress

Act as a family routine organizer with experience in elementary and middle school. Put together a back to school plan for the fall term, considering: - Children: [AGE AND GRADE OF EACH ONE, e.g. Mia, 7, 2nd grade; Theo, 12, 7th grade] - School hours: [E.G. mornings, drop off 7:20, pick up 12:10] - Who does what at home: [E.G. I drop them off, their dad picks them up, grandma covers Tuesdays] - Activities outside school: [E.G. swimming on Tuesday and Thursday, Spanish on Wednesday] - What fell apart over the break: [E.G. they sleep past midnight, nobody opens the backpack] - How much I can spend on supplies: [E.G. up to $200 total] Rules: 1. Treat the first week as a transition, not as the final routine: start by moving bedtime 15 minutes earlier each day before classes come back. 2. Separate what is the child's job from what is the adult's job. The child needs items of their own on the list, not only to be nagged. 3. Take the fall school calendar into account: the long weekend in September, the fall break in October, and finals and makeup work in November and December. 4. On supplies, first say what can be reused from last term and only then what needs to be bought. Response format: 1. Countdown: what to do on each of the 7 days before classes come back, one per line. 2. Weekly routine: a table with Time | What happens | Who is responsible. 3. The child's chart: 5 to 7 short items, in the language of their age, to print and stick on the wall. 4. Supplies: a table with Item | Reuse or buy | Estimated cost. 5. Three traps of the fall term and how to avoid each one. When you are done, ask at most three questions about anything vague in my context and redo only the part that is affected.