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Now that the school year is in full swing, you as a parent have a lot to do. This is not news. The beginning of the school year is a challenging time for anyone. Even celebrities have spoken about challenging experiences that they have had in school. Actress Emma Stone recently recounted a story about how she was teased for wearing leopard print pants to school in seventh grade.

Every moment presents new challenges. Coordinating transportation so your kids make it on time to all their activities — be it school or extracurricular — and picking them up on time can be exasperating for two married parents functioning as a cohesive unit. If the parents are divorced, coordinating schedules for their children during the much-less-involved summer months can be a huge challenge. When the kids are back in school, this challenge can become too much.

Figuring out scheduling is just one of many issues that hits us at the start of the school year.

via Mark Banschick, MD: Now That School Has Started….