Try as you might to ignore it, summer break is nearing an end and school buses will be rambling down the road soon.
"I make a big deal and point it out to her to get her excited and demystify what's happening," the Naperville mom said.by signing up you agree to our terms of service "We'll walk his schedule a few times and definitely work on his locker combination," said Kendall Hayes, a Naperville woman whose son, Parker, will be starting sixth grade at Madison Junior High.
To get back on a normal schedule, the National Sleep Foundation recommends adjusting sleep and wake times by 15 minutes each night in the two weeks leading up to the first day of school. "I feel like my primary job is reading massive quantities of communications from the school so I know where he needs to be, because we've never done this before," said Rebecca Malotke-Meslin, whose oldest son, Jonah Meslin, will be a freshman at Naperville Central High School."Right now, it's just really mastering the calendar."