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For those of us who worked from home when quarantine began and now possibly have gone back to work, have you decided yet which you like better? There are pros and cons to both. I know many of us truly enjoyed being home with our children or families but we sometimes like the routine.

Can anything be done?

If there is one thing I know about elementary aged children, after having 3 children myself, it's that they loooooove having mom and dad eat lunch with them from time to time at school. I've done it with all 3. Some parents do it several times during the school year and some parents only go on special occasions such as birthdays, the big Thanksgiving meal or this time of year, Christmastime. But w

Head lice is a nightmare no parent or child ever wants to experience, yet it's a problem that persists in many schools every year. A new Texas law now determines what public elementary school nurses must do when they discover lice on a child.

This is a picture of my son's school uniform. The black marks you are seeing are from another student who decided to throw paint on my son while in class. The part about this that upsets me the most is if you look at this and consider it was all done with a brush, this means there were several attempts...

This literally just happened to me so I felt compelled to blog about it. lol The struggle is real when you have children, specifically school-aged kiddos. I missed a call from the school, the dreaded oh-my-gosh-what-did-my-kid-do-now-call? When I realized it, I called the office at the school and proceeded to try to figure out what the problem might be?

Our friends at Kent Kwik Convenience Stores are doing something super cool to help out our kids! If you want to help 'Fuel Your School' what you do is fill up your tank with gas. It's that simple!

Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old freshman at Irving MacArthur High School, saw a proud creation of a homemade clock result in him going to jail when a teacher thought it was a bomb.

I just had a rude awakening about yet another thing that is different about school from when I went back in the day. My 8 year old son's school supply list called for 40 sharpened pencils. When I saw that I jokingly made the comment, 'do they not have pencil sharpeners in the classroom?'

It's rare, but there have been stories of high school athletes suffering heart issues on the field, and there's been more than one death. One of those stories is too many.