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or most of us, summer
means slower, later
mornings, lower-keyed
days, less rushing and a
general lack of bedtimes. It's fun,
it's easier, but when school starts
again it'll be a rude awakening
for both parents and kids who
need to go to sleep earlier and
wake up ready for school.
Every year at this time, par-
ents face the same dilemma of
how to reintroduce structure
when the temperatures are still
high and the days are still long.
Beth Margolin of Orchard
Lake knows that when Hillel Day
School starts Aug. 27, there will
definitely be a period of adjust-
ment for Amy, a sixth-grader,
Judy, heading into third grade,
and Rachel, beginning kinder-
garten.
"It's hard for Rachel to fall
asleep now with it being light so
late, and it's going to be tough
putting her to bed early," Mar-
golin knows.
To ease the transition from
summer vacation mode to school
mode, a few days before school
starts Beth begins to have qui-
eter days, with earlier dinners
and earlier bed times. She also
tries to get the girls up earlier the
last few days of summer, so they
are ready to get up at 7 a.m.
when school begins.
"Hillel starts at 8:20, so we
need to be out the door by 7:50,"
•
e stablish bed times and bath
timeSAuring the last week before
school starts.
Margolin says. "While
they get dressed, I cook • Slowly get your children up clos-
breakfast. I like for the er to school wake-up time.
girls to have a relaxed
• Resume reading to and with your
morning, and not be
children, or get them back on an in-
rushed. It relieves a lot
dependent reading schedule.
of stress, and I am not
as crazed either."
• Give your children a period of
According to educa- compression, or cooling down, each
tors and psychologists, day to relax.
Margolin's plan of eas-
• Allow your children to help pick
ing her girls back into a
out
their school clothes and school
school schedule is a good
idea. Wendy Talan of supplies.
West Bloomfield is a so-
• Have your children help make
cial worker employed by their own lunches.
the Troy school district
• Be positive!
and a mother of three
boys. "The most impor-
tant thing is to re-es-
ural consequence to eating right
tablish school routines across the and sleeping well, and there will
board, from preschoolers to be positive results in their day,
teenagers," says Talon.
versus being crabby, unable to
She advises reacclimating chil- think clearly, and having a bad
dren within a week of school day at school."
starting, gradually re-establish-
Talan advises encouraging
ing regular meal times, bed times children to have a period of de-
and bath times. "You want to compression as well. Between
start acclimating their body running around late all summer,
clocks to a school routine. To just and the after-school activities
expect your children to resume a that start up soon after Labor
school routine without a gradual Day, children have very little
introduction to the rituals of the down time and often lose the abil-
household is unfair," she says.
ity to relax, which allows them to
"They need help understand- fall asleep easier.
ing that it is a positive reintro-
"Decompression is the oppor-
duction to the school routine, and tunity to slow the self down and
in their best interest, and not a begin to relax and settle into com-
negative experience. They need pleting your day," explains Ta-
to understand that there is a nat- lan. For younger kids, it is