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Hope you are all well and not too frazzled with the school holidays. 

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 Food For Thought - Schedule Time For Fun

Well the school holidays are moving into their final downhill or up hill run – however you view them.

So now is a good time to review whether you have managed to do all the things you had planned to do with the kids.  Have you taken them out for the picnic, played hide and seek in the woods, had a treasure hunt in the garden or taken a trip to the beach.

Maybe your thoughts are more filled with getting school uniform, labelling clothes, or worrying about the start of the new school year.

School holidays can be stressful and expensive and seem never ending.  Whatever the age of the children young, or old, have their own special challenges. 

However, have you considered that in the grand scheme of things we are looking twelve summer holidays before the kids grow up and fly the nest

Whatever is on  your mind that would like to do, or need to do  but have not quite achieved – now is the time to have a serious Planning Meeting with yourself. 

• Brainstorm – the fun things, games, activites and days out and schedule them into the diary.
  
• Plan when you are going to dig out the school bags, and shop for anything you need for the new school year. Mark this in the diary too.
  
• Remember to pace yourself. 
• Leave as little as you can to the last minute. There are always things that you haven’t thought of which crop up.
• Remember fun doesn't  have to last long - a game before bedtime or after work can be as enjoyable than a whole afternoon out when you are stretched for time.
• Stop trying to be perfect.

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Be back in a couple of weeks with more back to school tips for you and the kids.

 Diana

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