You Can’t Be Back to School Ready Without These Things
High school is the prime time of life for many kids. It’s when they’re growing up, gently grabbing onto their passions whilst fighting with their inner demons. School life, in particular, is full of excitement for some kids, and awful for others. Hopping back onto school vans and waking up early in the morning after months of vacations is never a good feeling. It often just combines into a cluster of mixed feelings, experiences, excitement, and dreadfulness.
So what can you do as a parent? Keep them upbeat. Push them to do things that they love. If your kid has just started going to school, one of the things you can do to ignite excitement is to buy them new stuff. Buy them cool, back-to-school accessories that they’d love flaunting off to their classmates.
At the same time, don’t forget to teach them to be humble and keep their feet on the ground. Anyways, here’s a list of items you can buy for your kids as a back-to-school gift:
BACKPACK
First things first, backpack! Close your eyes for a moment and go back to when you were a child. Getting a new backpack was probably the most exciting thing in life. A vibrant-colored, cargo backpack featuring multiple compartments. It made us feel like superstars at school.
Make sure you buy an appropriate-sized bag for your kid. Consider the strap size, comfortability, padding, compartments, and any other extra features it comes with. You do this and you’ll find your kid excited to be back to school in no time! Don’t forget to consult them about their favorite colors or any other preference they might have.
LUNCH BOX
Well, a lunch box is a controversial little accessory, isn’t it? A bunch of spoiled brats calling your boy “mama’s boy” for bringing a lunch box from home? Well, believe it or not, it does happen.
Kids can even end up feeling embarrassed about it and the sensitive ones may even end up developing anxiety disorders. So while we’re encouraging you to buy them a lunchbox, we’re also telling you to help them with their daily struggles.
Buy them a stranger-things-themed lunchbox, or any lunchbox that involves their favorite cartoon or TV show. They’ll enjoy it even more!
WATER BOTTLE
When it comes to water bottles and lunch boxes, you can also hunt for features like thermal flasks and insulated containers. This will help them keep their water cold and food warm, for the whole day!
SUPPLY BOX
Supply box is just another fancy word for a geometry box. Make sure you buy them a cool box to carry their pens, colors, pencils, erasers, and sharpeners. Just dig into it and you’d be surprised to find the variety out there.
HAND SANITIZER
Call it post-pandemic awareness or just general precaution, make sure you buy them a bottle of hand sanitizer to use on the go.
STATEMENT NOTEBOOK
Did you know you could order notebooks now featuring cartoons and movies? If you’ve got a coming-of-age boy, introduce him to peaky blinders. If you’ve got a girl, there’s nothing that Barbie or Elsa can’t solve.
NEWEST STATIONERY
Kids adore new, cool, modern stationery. Be it mechanical pencils, glitter pens, or eraser-combined sharpeners. Just ask your kids what they want — they’d probably already have figured out what’s new.
STICKY NOTES
Every parent should encourage their kids to use sticky notes. They help keep track of your daily schedule and instill a sense of accountability.
THE BOTTOM LINE
Lastly, while you get your kid ready and upbeat for going back to school, teach them to never take crap from anybody. Make sure your kids know how much you love them. Allow them to share their feelings and every day with you so you know what’s going on in their lives. Good luck and happy parenting!