Asking your children about their fears or worries about going back to school will help them share their burden.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.
Kids would never care about going to school unless your mama and daddy instilled into your head and explained to you that you need this thing to live.
I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.
A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.
I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do not worry about them growing up - because they have great values and a great sense of self.
It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.
What I'd like to say is that I think the lives of every one of these little kids who are trapped in these unsafe and failing schools are too important, and I'm willing to take the abuse in order to help them.
Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.
This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it's going to ruin their chances of getting into college.
Kids love to be scared - there's way to do it right, and ways to do it wrong.