Back-to-School Tips for Busy Parents

Author Kyle EngPosted by Kyle Eng
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Besides a balanced lunch, organizing your child's back-to-school season is essential to a healthy start of the school year. Try these tips for a genius kickoff.

Organize Events and Logistics

Your school year will go much more smoothly if you set up effective processes now — and stick with them.

  • Save time, money and miles by connecting with other parents to set up a carpool sign up system for school, sports teams and other extracurricular activities. Genius Tip: Use our Calendar Sync feature to get automatic reminders on your personal digital calendar of commitments.
  • Be a superhero in your child's classroom. Suit up with these tips to be a life-saving classroom parent and help your teacher organize class parties, snacks, mystery readers and more. Genius Tip: Manage a classroom school supply wish list with a sign up.
  • Fuel your child's sports team or afterschool club by organizing a snack sign up. The last thing you want is a bunch of antsy kids on the sidelines.

Other Useful Resources

Sending your child to the bus stop may never get easy, but preparing for the school year can be with a few simple tips.

Be a Genius Organizer

Need some extra organizing firepower this school year? Check out our advanced planning tools.

Parents have countless responsibilities throughout the fall season. Follow these tips ahead of time, and you'll breeze through back-to-school season.

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