Back to school is like January 1.  A fresh start.

Ask any teacher: your organized students are often your brightest students.  Where are those skills learned?

Home.

But with backpacks, the paper trail, bills, lunches, carpools, missing shoes and socks- mornings can be downright evil.  Homework? Chores? Bedtimes? Exhausting.

It’s enough to make any parent that isn’t Martha sweat.  Our very own Nicolette is a recovering clutterbug.  It can be done, dear readers, it can be done.

 

This round-up of ideas will not disappoint.

 

 

Be kind…

Morning Routine Ideas

Morning Routine Cards via Living Locurto {free printables!}

Another freebie morning routine chart via The Pleasantest Thing 

 

 For children with special needs, here’s a free PECS system for the morning via Skirt! Savana.

From I Can Teach My Child: 4 color options of Morning Routine Cards

Create stations and areas in your home

Backpack & School Paper Station via The Crafting Chicks

Child Command Centers via Delightful Order

 

Homework Station via Roots & Wings Co 

School paperwork storage by grade level by I Heart Organizing {with free printables!}

Be amazed at Something To Do‘s School Supply Organization

Make a home for all those coloring tools via Fig Milkshake

Organize your meals

Ideas for organizing school lunches via Organizing Made Fun 

Consider Meal Planning Breakfast and Dinner.  Make it visually appealing like Mona’s 3rd Happenings

 

Kitchen Command Center would streamline the craziest of mornings via Oh So Chi Chi

 

Declutter and Rethink Chores

Chore Clipboards via The 36th Avenue

Imagine easy clean-up with stair baskets via Sew Many Ways

Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy Crafts takes on a visual chore chart

Daily Clipboard System via Stacy Julian

Who’s Turn is It Chart via The Anderson Crew 

After all that work,

behold the bedtime routine

Bedtime routine checklist art via The Spendidly Imperfect Miss M

For the younger set, a bedtime felt chart via My High Need Child

Stop by one of our favorite blogs, Zen Habits for some calming insight into stress-free morning…

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See you back tomorrow,

Nicolette & Karen

 

 

p.s.: check out our teachers’ lounge section in the upper navigation bar for more ideas to get the school year started out right.

 

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