Routine: In order to be ready for that first day, I would agree with the experts who suggest you should start your early - to - bed routine a few nights
ahead of that first morning rush, or even a few weeks early according to Elizabeth Scott, M.S., but let's be honest, you should probably
set your own
alarm for 4:00 a.m. that first day if you have any chance at force - feeding your children breakfast, combing their hair, brushing teeth, getting dressed, going to the bathroom, packing lunches, arguing over footwear, dragging a comb through your own nest of hair so you look presentable in front of the other, scrambling neighbourhood parents before shooing the kids out the door.