This encore episode about the back to school shit show is one I come back to over and over again - because it’s something parents struggle with every. single. year.
The transition back to school from summer break is definitely a transition. Kids suddenly have to wake up early, get themselves ready and out the door (on time). And it’s a transition for you too as you settle everyone into a new routine.
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There are special challenges that come up, and I want you to be prepared for the shenanigans that might happen with your kids in the coming weeks.
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In this fan-favorite episode, I’m talking about 5 things you need to know as school starts and how to create the right mindset going into the next couple of weeks so that you can be compassionate with your kids (and so you don't lose your mind).
I share these not because I want you to be filled with worry and dread, but because I want you to go into this school year feeling confident, ready and hopeful. And I want you to be able to feel calm when this stuff is happening.
For your kid, going back to school is kinda like going back to work. And it comes with a lot of thoughts, feelings, excitement, and nerves. This can show up in a lot of different ways. Here are 5 of the ones I see most in the families I work with.
Remember that your kid is using their behavior to communicate or cope with their big feelings. Take a moment to reset your own nervous system and get curious about what’s going on for them. If you can stay calm and practice compassion, your child will be able to move through these feelings more quickly.
Feeling calm and confident starts with your thoughts. Here are some of my favorites to use during the first couple weeks of school (as well as other transition periods).
Take a few moments to write out a list of thoughts that you want to be thinking during the first week of school. Feel free to borrow mine or come up with your own.
I also want to leave you with the idea that your job is to deliver the calmest, most emotionally regulated kid you can to school in the morning. I call this a gentle handoff.
In order to do this, you need to be calm yourself and have realistic expectations for the morning. Your stress is contagious. But so is your positive thinking and calm. It’s okay if you’re a little bit late. It’s okay if someone forgets their lunchbox or has a meltdown before school.
You are the leader in your home, in both mindset and operations. Transitions are temporary, and your family WILL figure this out.
Wishing you great back to school vibes, Mama!
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Welcome back to Become a Calm Mama. I'm your host. I'm Darlin Childress.
Speaker:And on this episode, I am revisiting a
Speaker:podcast episode that I've actually published twice now,
Speaker:and it's called Back to School Shit show where I walk you through
Speaker:five tips to help you with the school
Speaker:transition. And I wanted to re release it because
Speaker:it's still really an issue for parents. Of course, right,
Speaker:because kids all of a sudden have to wake up early, they have to get
Speaker:their backpacks ready, they have to get to school. And it's not
Speaker:going to be just summer camp and fun or lay around and watch
Speaker:television or play on their iPad or go into the pool or
Speaker:to the lake. It is kind of like going back to work for them.
Speaker:And they're excited, they have big feelings, they're nervous.
Speaker:You know, they don't know who's going to be in their class yet. Maybe you
Speaker:guys did a little roundup, but still they're not quite sure what the vibe is
Speaker:going to be. And they might have a little bit of anxiety, a little bit
Speaker:of excitement, a little bit of dread. If you have older
Speaker:kids, middle schoolers, they're transitioning into where they're going
Speaker:to have different classes and different periods and different teachers, they
Speaker:might have PE for the first time. High schoolers, they
Speaker:are excited to see their friends again. And also they have a
Speaker:lot of social pressure to look a certain way and feel a certain way.
Speaker:So there's just a lot going on for children and for teens when they
Speaker:go back to school. And there's a lot for moms as
Speaker:well. So it's definitely a transition. And during
Speaker:transitions, really special challenges come up that I wanted to
Speaker:walk you through on this episode. The other thing I want to remind
Speaker:you, and I don't think I mentioned it in this episode, is
Speaker:that you can go slow. I was just coaching a
Speaker:mom this week and. And she was like, okay, school starts in three
Speaker:weeks and I really think we should start back in our morning routine.
Speaker:I was like, wait, what? No, don't pre
Speaker:routine your kids because it won't feel genuine and they're still
Speaker:gonna be in the school transition anyways. So I would just recommend
Speaker:you slowly get back into that school routine. Don't
Speaker:add chores yet. Don't add extra new stuff. I know,
Speaker:like, for me, when I start something new, I wanna, like, start
Speaker:off right and be really intentional. And I put a lot of pressure on
Speaker:myself and my kids to, you know, do it all, like
Speaker:100%. And I want to caution you that allow
Speaker:for the transition to take place over the course
Speaker:of the next two or three weeks. Like, it's okay
Speaker:if you're late a little bit. It's okay if someone forgets their
Speaker:lunchbox or, you know, they have a big meltdown before school
Speaker:because their socks are itchy. Just allow that
Speaker:process and don't make it mean anything about the whole school year
Speaker:or about your kids or yourself. Just allow the
Speaker:transition to take place. And if you're still having issues
Speaker:after two weeks, two and a half weeks, then maybe you want to reach
Speaker:out to me, get some help, Join the Calmomma Club. We can walk through your
Speaker:morning routines and give you some really good strategies.
Speaker:So this episode is going to be really helpful in walking you through five things
Speaker:to think about that will happen over the next couple of weeks.
Speaker:And I want to point out to you that I have a couple other episodes
Speaker:that might be really, really helpful. One is a back to school
Speaker:mindset episode just for you. And we'll link this in the
Speaker:show notes. And this is episode 80. And then I also
Speaker:have two different episodes about
Speaker:making mornings easier. One is episode 30,
Speaker:and then the other one is actually a whole entire
Speaker:roadmap for your mornings. And you can get that on my website
Speaker:or we'll link it into the show notes and I kind of walk you through
Speaker:kind of how to set up your morning routine, what needs to be done at
Speaker:what time, and all of that. So that's a really good resource for you.
Speaker:So I really, I'm wishing you all great back to
Speaker:school vibes. I was in my Pilates class this morning
Speaker:and the teacher was saying that at her kid's school on the first
Speaker:day of school, all the moms or whoever, they hook up
Speaker:and they meet up at a restaurant and they have big mimosas.
Speaker:And I think that's super fun and not
Speaker:necessarily the drinking part, but just that celebration that you made it
Speaker:to the end of the summer. Some of you might be feeling sad. That's fine.
Speaker:Some of you might be feeling happy. That's fine. Our family
Speaker:tradition, I don't know if I shared this, is that we really did
Speaker:not like that summer ended and we loved
Speaker:summer and we felt sad that we all had to go back to
Speaker:school and that it was so hot and everyone was
Speaker:like, so discouraged. And I remember Lincoln, when he went to
Speaker:kindergarten, I picked him up, it was like a half day and
Speaker:he was just like, oh, it's so hot. And you know, I don't like school.
Speaker:And he was complaining Some of the things I talk about in this episode. And
Speaker:I said, you know what? Let's just pretend that summer's not over and let's just
Speaker:jump in the pool. And so we said, first day of school, jump in the
Speaker:pool. And the three of us, Sawyer, Lincoln and I, all jumped in the pool
Speaker:fully dressed in our regular school clothes. And that became a
Speaker:tradition that we did for the next 18 years or whatever,
Speaker:12 years. So create a little tradition if
Speaker:you want some. Something that you do with your friends, something that you do with
Speaker:yourself or with your family to really commemorate the end of the
Speaker:summer and this back to school vibe. And just try to,
Speaker:you know, go with the flow as much as you can and enjoy it.
Speaker:And also, please enjoy this episode of Back to School Shit Show.
Speaker:I think you're gonna love today's episode because I am talking
Speaker:about something that's probably on your mind. And I'm calling this episode
Speaker:the Back to School Shit show because I guess I want to
Speaker:normalize that the transition back to school
Speaker:from summer break is not usually
Speaker:seamless. It is definitely a transition.
Speaker:And I just want you to be prepared for
Speaker:the shenanigans that might happen with your kids and
Speaker:also help you have the right mindset going into
Speaker:the next couple of weeks so that you don't lose
Speaker:your mind, right? I want you to have a good mindset, right,
Speaker:so you don't lose your mind. I'm going to get right into some of the
Speaker:nitty gritty in the early part of this episode because I know
Speaker:that sometimes you know your moms and you might get
Speaker:distracted and not get to finish an episode. So I want to
Speaker:give you the five things that you need to know right
Speaker:as school starts. The first one is
Speaker:that I want you to understand that your kid, they might not like
Speaker:their teacher. Especially if you have younger kids like
Speaker:kinder one, two, preschool, even third,
Speaker:fourth, elementary school. You kind of want them to
Speaker:like their teacher. When you have an elementary school kid, you may have a child
Speaker:who doesn't warm up to the teacher. I just want you to know that that's
Speaker:okay. That doesn't mean anything about your kid being, oh, they're so shy,
Speaker:or, or they're not a very warm kid,
Speaker:or, oh, this is gonna be such a hard year because they don't like their
Speaker:teacher. I just want you to know that your
Speaker:kids, they might be shy with their teacher and they might not want to talk
Speaker:to them, and that's just normal. So I don't want you
Speaker:to make your kids behavior A problem. I don't want you to be like, go
Speaker:hug your teacher. You know, you'll see all their kids hugging the teacher and being
Speaker:super sweet. And you might feel self conscious. You might think your kid's
Speaker:like, social. And I just want you to know that
Speaker:quality relationships take time to build and that
Speaker:your kid might not warm up to their teacher right away. And that is
Speaker:not a problem. So that's the first thing I wanted you to know.
Speaker:The second is that I really think this is probably
Speaker:the most important thing I'm going to say is that your
Speaker:kids are going to be exhausted the first week of
Speaker:school. This is just true. It is important
Speaker:that you keep the afternoons open. You might
Speaker:be tempted to plan like a big play
Speaker:date or big back to school picnic in the
Speaker:park and things like that. And you can plan those things.
Speaker:But I want you to be a little flexible and know that your kids might
Speaker:just not be up for it. Going back to school is very
Speaker:tiring for them. They have to sit still. Even if you have
Speaker:teenagers, they have to sit in a desk, they have to listen to their teacher.
Speaker:They have like a lot of input, you know, sensory input going on.
Speaker:I want you to be ready for that
Speaker:exhaustion. Really my
Speaker:recommendation is that you keep that first
Speaker:hour after pickup so screen free.
Speaker:There might be a temptation to have your
Speaker:kids go on a screen to like decompress or come down.
Speaker:But moving to a screen shortly after getting home, it will
Speaker:make it a little bit hard for your child's like activated stress
Speaker:response to reset itself and catch up. So instead of just
Speaker:kind of letting them disconnect on the screen or a video game or watching
Speaker:YouTube or watching TV or something. Want you to think about how can
Speaker:I use this time to connect with them, like playing a game or hanging
Speaker:outside or doing some of the things that you've been doing all summer, just
Speaker:doing those in the afternoon and doing, you know,
Speaker:allowing for some of that reset time, knowing that that
Speaker:first week of school, your kids are probably going to be pretty exhausted.
Speaker:The third thing that I would like to caution you about as
Speaker:kids go back to school, that sibling conflict might
Speaker:shoot through the roof during this back to school transition.
Speaker:The way to move through, like decrease
Speaker:sibling squabbles is by creating special
Speaker:time. Your kids are going to need individual one on one
Speaker:time with you most days right after school or, you
Speaker:know, shortly after pickup. I call that period of time right after
Speaker:pickup eyeballs, because that's the time where your kid kind of really
Speaker:needs to connect with you. So if you have two that you pick up at
Speaker:the same time, that's fine. Or three or four. However many you have,
Speaker:you can get everybody situated at home, get them playing a game, get them
Speaker:reading a book, get them playing outside. And then you can kind of pull each
Speaker:child in and just say, hey, I want to hang out with you and spend
Speaker:10 minutes, five minutes, you know, whatever you can spare
Speaker:with each kid. And that can just look like playing what they want
Speaker:to play. They're kind of playing Legos, or they're playing dolls, or they're playing
Speaker:house or they're jumping on the trampoline or, you know, they're, I don't
Speaker:know, whatever your kids do, going and doing that thing with them
Speaker:alongside of them doesn't have to be talking.
Speaker:You can actually just be in their presence and maybe wait
Speaker:for the stories to come. Or maybe they're not going to need to say anything
Speaker:to you. Just having that special time with just you is going to
Speaker:be huge. Huge. It will really help. You have
Speaker:fewer sibling conflicts. Okay, I know that's what you want
Speaker:is to have less fighting with your children and less annoying
Speaker:behavior with your kids. So doing this special time
Speaker:is like an antidote. Is that the word, antidote
Speaker:to sibling conflict? Okay, number four,
Speaker:social stuff is going to come up.
Speaker:This is going to happen. It happens at almost
Speaker:every age. You got preschoolers who
Speaker:are struggling with friendships. You've got middle schoolers
Speaker:who are not sure how they navigate how they fit in. You've got high
Speaker:schoolers who now people have boyfriends and girlfriends and
Speaker:they friends and all of that. Right? So the social stuff is going to be
Speaker:there. Friendships shift over the summer. Kids mature. Some
Speaker:kids get really into one video game over the summer and then they come back
Speaker:and that's all they want to talk about. And you're kid didn't play Roblox all
Speaker:summer or they didn't play Fortnite and you don't, you don't have anything to talk
Speaker:about. Navigating friendships, it might be hard
Speaker:for your kid. They might not know who to play with at
Speaker:recess. They might not feel comfortable at drop off.
Speaker:It might be difficult that social stuff. And I want you to
Speaker:be okay with this. I don't want you to think
Speaker:that your child is like antisocial or on the bad
Speaker:path to like being with all the bad kids or whatever. Not that I don't
Speaker:really think there are any bad kids. You might, but I don't. So
Speaker:if you're thinking that, just realize that all of this
Speaker:friendship Stuff, it just comes up in the beginning of the year. And
Speaker:allowing some time and trust that your child's going to
Speaker:navigate, they're going to find their people, they're going to find their friend group and
Speaker:it's going to be okay. So the more comfortable
Speaker:you are with your child's discomfort, the easier it
Speaker:will be for your child to move through their big
Speaker:feelings. Because they're like, am I okay? Am
Speaker:I gonna be okay? Nobody likes me. And then they look
Speaker:at you and they really want to feel like they're getting this
Speaker:feedback of like, no, no, no, honey, you're gonna be fine. But if
Speaker:they're looking at you and you're thinking, ooh, I don't know,
Speaker:are you going to be okay? They might adopt that thought. I'm not
Speaker:okay. I'm not going to be okay. The more comfortable you are,
Speaker:even when your child is struggling, the easier it is for your child.
Speaker:That's kind of cool. Number five.
Speaker:I'm sorry to share this one. Expect
Speaker:misbehavior to escalate over the next two
Speaker:weeks. Once school starts, whenever. If you're in it right now,
Speaker:mamas, you're in the back to school shit show right now.
Speaker:That's fine. You're seeing it currently. The misbehavior is
Speaker:escalating. If you're just starting school, get ready because
Speaker:it's coming. You're going to have more big feeling
Speaker:cycles. Remember, a big feeling cycle is sort of what I call like
Speaker:how I label a temper tantrum. Big feeling
Speaker:cycle is an intense emotional reaction to a
Speaker:circumstance. Your child has their big feelings and
Speaker:they come out through complaining and crying and
Speaker:negotiating and anger and whatever the big
Speaker:feelings are and how they show up, right? So you're gonna have
Speaker:more of those. We want to think about big feeling cycles,
Speaker:intensity, duration and frequency.
Speaker:So hopefully, if you've been practicing your KA mama skills, you know, the last
Speaker:few months, then you're going to be able to help your
Speaker:child move through these fast. So they won't last as long. So
Speaker:you're gonna have decreased duration. Hopefully they're not as intense
Speaker:because you've been practicing compassion in the middle of these feeling cycles.
Speaker:But what is going to happen is that they're gonna increase in
Speaker:frequency. You might be like, what the heck is going on?
Speaker:How come they're so like, this is just a. It's a shit show.
Speaker:Remember that? This is just happening, right? You're gonna have more resistance,
Speaker:you're gonna have more feelings. Your child's just
Speaker:going through a lot they're coping with a lot. They're having to use
Speaker:all their good coping strategies at school all day. And
Speaker:then they come home and they have that bra off feeling, right? Like that
Speaker:relaxed feeling. And they're like,
Speaker:now I'm just gonna let it all out.
Speaker:And so your kids behavior is a strategy
Speaker:that they are using to communicate or cope with their big
Speaker:feelings when they're in those big feeling cycles. Pause.
Speaker:Take that pause. Break. Take care of yourself. Reset
Speaker:your own emotional and nervous system and then get
Speaker:curious so that these are these five
Speaker:things that I want you to be looking out for. I'll repeat
Speaker:them just that your kids, they might not like their teacher. That's
Speaker:okay. Your kids might be really exhausted the first week of school.
Speaker:That's okay. Sibling conflict may happen.
Speaker:Special time is the antidote. Number four. Social stuff is going to
Speaker:come up, friends stuff, things like that. And then you're going to
Speaker:have a lot more misbehavior and big feeling cycles. I share all
Speaker:this because I love the ideal day and thinking, a
Speaker:positive parenting vision and all of those things when we are kind of
Speaker:anticipating good things. But I also know that
Speaker:some circumstances are just difficult. I don't want you
Speaker:to go into this school year feeling worried or
Speaker:dread because of what I've just said. I actually want you to feel
Speaker:confident. I want you to feel ready. I want you to be able to
Speaker:feel calm when this stuff is happening and hopeful. I'm going to
Speaker:give you a few thoughts that I think
Speaker:will help you in this transition. These
Speaker:are the thoughts that are going to help you feel confident,
Speaker:calm, ready and hopeful. So one of my favorite thoughts when I am
Speaker:in a transition, when the kids go back to school or the first couple
Speaker:days of summer, or the first day or two of winter break, whatever it is.
Speaker:I like to think this is a transition.
Speaker:It is a really helpful thought for me and that's why I'm offering
Speaker:it to you, because I then can add the second thought, which is
Speaker:transitions are temporary. That's the whole purpose of the
Speaker:word transition. I'm in between two stages. I was on
Speaker:summer break and now we're moving to school
Speaker:schedule and school rhythm. And this period of time is a
Speaker:transition. So those thoughts are going to really serve you. Another thought.
Speaker:It will take time to figure out our rhythm and routine.
Speaker:So looking at these two weeks, the first two weeks of school, as like kind
Speaker:of exploration, like curiosity. Wow. Where
Speaker:are the things that are difficult? Where's the friction in our
Speaker:rhythm? Where's the friction in our routine? What's not working? What is
Speaker:working? Giving yourself permission to think,
Speaker:I'm going to figure this out and it's going to take some time. And
Speaker:then offering to yourself, I have plenty of time. You mamas,
Speaker:you don't have to get it right. That first week of school,
Speaker:you're gonna get to school, there's gonna be a carpool line mess up, it's
Speaker:gonna be really long. You know, you're gonna try to get to pickup and there's
Speaker:not gonna be any parking because no one has worked out their carpool yet. You
Speaker:know, moms and dads are dropping off and moms and moms and all the people
Speaker:are there at school, people are staying longer
Speaker:at drop off. Like it's going to be difficult and
Speaker:so you don't have to have it all worked out just perfectly. The
Speaker:school also knows that this is a transition. They've done it many,
Speaker:many times, right. Many years. So you can,
Speaker:you can figure it out. You can give yourself time and permission. One of
Speaker:my thoughts, and I'm going to talk about this now, is
Speaker:that your job, my job as a mom and your job that I'm going to
Speaker:teach you is to create a gentle handoff each morning and
Speaker:at each pickup. I'm going to teach you this concept of a gentle handoff in
Speaker:a minute. But I want you to really think about this thought that that is
Speaker:your job. Your job is to create a gentle handoff each morning.
Speaker:What do I mean by gentle handoff? When you drop your kids off
Speaker:at school, I want you to think, how can I
Speaker:deliver the calmest, most
Speaker:emotionally regulated human being as possible? What
Speaker:is it going to take for me to deliver that kid
Speaker:to that school? School gate? What it actually means is that you
Speaker:are going to need to be really calm yourself and not be
Speaker:completely obsessed with being on time of looking a certain
Speaker:way of having the perfect lunchbox and like having all of the
Speaker:right school supplies and you know, the, the shoes
Speaker:being tied and ready and everybody, all the things all lined up.
Speaker:If you are stressed and you're trying to reach some kind
Speaker:of mother standard that you created in your head
Speaker:and you're putting that pressure on your kids, they are going to feel
Speaker:it, they're going to act out more because that's just what they do, that's how
Speaker:they respond to pressure, is it creates more feelings and then more big feeling cycles
Speaker:and you're going to end up dropping off a kid who just got yelled
Speaker:at, who was shamed, who was threatened, you know, is
Speaker:stressed. Your stress is Going to, it's contagious, but
Speaker:so is your positive thinking. And so that's why these
Speaker:thoughts of this is a transition. It's going to take time.
Speaker:I can figure this out. I don't have to be perfect today.
Speaker:Those thoughts are going to help you create that gentle handoff. Another
Speaker:thought I want to offer to you is that this one is so great. It's
Speaker:my kids are 100% going to
Speaker:master the back to school routine. Just decide right now
Speaker:that you as a family are going to figure this out. If you figure it
Speaker:out on day two, excellent. If you'd figure it on day 100,
Speaker:fine. You're gonna keep at it until you have a school routine
Speaker:where you have peace and calm at drop off. That is
Speaker:the goal. If you have kinder and first graders or whatever,
Speaker:preschool and kinder little ones, then you have a
Speaker:lot of years to figure out how to master the back to school routine.
Speaker:That's an amazing gift, right? You have lots and lots and lots of time. You
Speaker:might not get it this school year. Who cares? Fine, you're late. Who cares?
Speaker:Realizing that you have a lot of time to master this routine
Speaker:is going to free you from the pressure. And then also
Speaker:if you thinking, I will master it, we will figure this out.
Speaker:You're gonna have a lot of confidence. So these are the thoughts that I
Speaker:love for you for as you go back to school. Thoughts are contagious.
Speaker:Feelings are contagious. You are the leader in your home
Speaker:and that means you set the standards both for operations like how it
Speaker:goes and the mindset. So first comes the mindset
Speaker:and then comes the operations. I actually
Speaker:really want you to do this exercise. I want you to sit, pause
Speaker:this or like come back to it, come back and say, okay, what I
Speaker:want to do is I want to write a list of thoughts that I want
Speaker:to be thinking during the first week of school. Or if you're already in school,
Speaker:just be like, okay, next week what are my going to be my
Speaker:thoughts, particularly in the mornings and you can borrow the ones
Speaker:I listed. Go back, listen to them again, write down how do you want to
Speaker:be thinking? Because these thoughts are going to create
Speaker:emotion in you and from your feelings, you're going to
Speaker:show up differently. When you're feeling calm, you're going to show up
Speaker:differently. As a parent, when you're feeling committed to your rhythm and routine,
Speaker:you're going to have a lot more confidence. So I really want you to do
Speaker:that exercise because the thoughts you have are contagious and the
Speaker:feelings are contagious. So your children are going to follow along with your
Speaker:lead. If you're thinking, my kid is a mess, this is a
Speaker:disaster. You're going to approach situations
Speaker:from that mindset and you're probably going to feel stress from that
Speaker:stress place. You're not going to be able to calmly teach your kids
Speaker:the rhythm and the routine for you, especially in
Speaker:the mornings. I'll do a whole episode on mornings. Really all about, like
Speaker:this whole first week. If you are just thinking like, this is a
Speaker:transition, we're gonna figure it out. There's no problem here. Plenty of time.
Speaker:You're going to feel much better than thinking, I'm a mess, my kid's a
Speaker:mess. This is a disaster. We're so far behind. Other moms figured it all out.
Speaker:Other moms are better than me. Other moms know what to do. I'm telling you,
Speaker:I work with amazing moms. The moms who look like they have
Speaker:it all together, they come to coaching and they still feel
Speaker:like I'm not doing good enough. So all the moms are just walking
Speaker:around kind of feeling like, ah. And so you can have a lot of compassion
Speaker:for them. You can have self compassion. And you actually don't need to buy
Speaker:into some sort of perfect standard of
Speaker:motherhood or being a parent or anything. We're all doing the
Speaker:best we can, especially in the back to school shit
Speaker:show. That's just. You're just in the middle of it and it's not a
Speaker:problem and it's temporary. These are the thoughts I wanted to give to you as
Speaker:you head back into school and you start this school year off. Yeah,
Speaker:I'm sure that you have all sorts of feelings and so
Speaker:hopefully this episode has helped you think a little bit
Speaker:more ready, like ready for it. And also
Speaker:just compassionate for you and for your kids and.
Speaker:And you can just love yourself through it. That's what I want to leave you
Speaker:with. Have a great week and good luck and I'll
Speaker:be thanking all of you as you start this next school year.
Speaker:All right, everybody, talk to you next time.