| Organizing Your Child's School Bag |
| Learn how to organize your child's school bag. |
From "Home Made Easy"
episode DHME-134 |
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Guest Jessica Sabat joins host Stephanie Lydecker and shares tips on organizing your child's school bags and backpacks—including tips on what kind of bags to buy.
Organizing Your Child's School Bag- If you received any guidance from your child's classroom teacher, follow it! Teachers often have great systems in place that will not only help their students develop good organizational habits, but these systems also help the teacher manage all the papers coming and going to and from the classroom.
- It is important that your child have all types of supplies, notebooks and folders that the teacher requests. If you have more choice in the matter, then as a parent it is vital that you set your child up for success through a simple organizational system.
- The bag should have a good variety of different-sized pockets, pen holders, and zippered compartments to offer a specific and designated place for every item.
- Go through all the compartments, zipper pouches, sleeves, and pockets with your children. Each compartment should be designated for a particular purpose.
- Plastic pocket folders are a great organizational tool. Label one side "notes home to school" and the other "homework" for young students. The "notes side is for communications sent home by teachers and for parent's notes back, and signed permission slips and the like. The "homework" side is for worksheets on their way home and they go back to school in the same pocket the next day when they are completed.
- Put a laminated emergency contact list, the size of a postcard, in your child's backpack. This should include important numbers like parents work and cell numbers. Child safety experts caution that children should not have their names embroidered or written on the outside of their backpacks. It makes it too easy for a stranger to approach the child and address them by name, trying to pretend that they know your child.
- A child should never carry the equivalent of more than ten percent of their body weight in a backpack. If a student has a heavier load, then consider a rolling backpack.
GUESTS :
Jessica Sabat
Professional Organizer
Website: www.optimumorganizing.com
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