Stress and the School Year
It’s starting. The first day of school was meant to be tomorrow. Of course, Fay is blowing through town and the district closed the schools for tomorrow. Can you even believe it? The first day of school cancelled for a hurricane?
In any event, with the new school year comes a good bit of stress. My daughter is in kindergarten this year and got into one of the best schools in the district. It’s a fundamental school with stricter uniform, attendance, behavior, and parent participation expectations. It’s a public school you can be asked to leave, so you want to make sure to follow the guidelines. Even in kindergarten, she will have homework four nights a week.
School means scheduling issues with me and my ex-husband. It means finding before and after care once I find a job. It means evenings where homework and baths are about all we will have time for so Gigi can get enough sleep to get up at 6 or 7 in the morning.
Anyway, I’ve actually been doing a lot of reading about stress reduction and life balance and time issues. One of the sites that I’ve had the pleasure to visit is the The Stress Institute®, where I started by finding an excellent article on stress reduction strategies like deep breathing, guided imagery, prayer, setting aside time to walk and a lot of other suggestions. It’s not like any of the information was new or revolutionary with me, but I needed the reminders and the encouragement. One of the tips was to eat breakfast. I know I should eat breakfast, but I cannot even begin to count how many years it has been since I have done so. I needed the reminder.
Other info on the site is actually new to me, like brain cell health, aging issues, and food is another path to a “better” brain. All I need to do now is not get so entranced in the reading that I stay up too late and get too little sleep. 
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