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5 Ways To Prepare Your Teen For School + Giveaway!

July 15, 2015 by Joyce Cortes Mackenroth 19 Comments

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5 Ways To Prepare Your Teen For School

Summer is almost over! Whoo! Yay!

Maybe your teen loves to go back to school. Maybe your teen hates it…

I admit that I am very excited to see my teenage sons going back to school next August!

Yes! Yes!

My two sons and I shall attend the High School orientation every year in order to meet their new teachers, review the class schedule, take a photo for school picture and their Student ID, and get a new locker for themselves. Also, we have to buy some used textbooks for their classes. Are you preparing your teen for school? Maybe you are not ready. If you already prepared your teen for the school, that is so AWESOME!

I am encouraging you to prepare your teen for school early before the school starts.

5 ways to prepare your teen for school

  1. Time management for school assignment: Get a school planner for your teen. Remember, your teen has a lot of assignments and projects in some classes. Maybe your teen can easily forget to do their homework and get a “zero” in the grading book. I do not know if your school may give free school planner for your teen or not. If not, go get a school planner before the school starts.
  2. Lunch or School Cafeteria: Honestly, I dislike to pay the lunch fee from the school. I prefer to make the lunch for my two teen sons because it saves a lot of money wisely and food preferences for them. They like to choose whatever they want to eat in their lunch. In the school cafeteria, the foods are not good. If your teen likes to choose whatever he or she wants to eat, let her / him do make their own lunch.
  3. Clothes, backpacks, textbooks, and school supplies: What a nightmare! My two teen sons are crazy to buy some new clothes and try to show themselves off around the school. In my understanding, they need to get new clothes because their clothes become more small. More importantly, they need to get notebooks, pencils, erasers, used textbooks, backpacks, and – calculators in any cheap stores such as the Dollar Tree Store. Unfortunately, the clothes are not in that store. If your teen needs to buy some new clothes + school supplies, it’s ok. But, if the clothes are as of needs, I’d suggest that you may check any clothes in sales from any Goodwill store, Marshall store, or your choice of any stores. Additionally, use the store coupons to buy the school supplies and clothes.
  4. Emotions and peer pressures: Prepare to discuss your emotions and peer pressures (such as bullying, suicide, drugs, others) with your teen before the school starts. I do usually talk that weird topics with my two teenage sons, they often roll their eyes because they are too tired to listening to my recurring advices and boring lectures. But, I always remind them that they need me and that I make sure that they remember that I am here for them because they know who they can open to talk to.
  5. Student Responsibility and Respectability: Encourage your teen to respect and obey the school rules. Otherwise, the school can suspend or give your teen the detention if he/she violates the rules. I admit that I hate to see one of my sons getting detention or suspended from the school. But, it is my parenting duty to teach my two teenage sons to be more responsible and respect the school rules. To your knowledge, teaching your teen responsibly about the school rules is very important.

Lastly, I believe that my two teenage sons always be ready for the school. I bet that they are very excited to get hang out with a bunch of their friends at school. Your teen will be fine when the school starts.

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Filed Under: Parenting + Children Tagged With: Giveaways, Teens

About Joyce Cortes Mackenroth

My name is Joyce. I'm a founder of Unshakeable Joy. I'm a follower of Christ and I am a woman to blog whatever I feel like - a faith-based blog where I write and share about food + drink, personal growth, spiritual encouragement, Christian living, and others. I am a mother of two adult sons and a blessed wife. Click here to learn more about starting a blog.

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  1. Birdiebee

    July 15, 2015 at 20:26

    I am already a subscriber with email: birdiebee2015 (at) gmail (dot) com

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  2. Rachel Mouton

    July 28, 2015 at 16:17

    These are great tips and a wonderful giveaway! Thanks so much 🙂

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  3. Carolyn K

    July 28, 2015 at 19:41

    Great tips, thanks for sharing and wonderful giveaway!

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  4. Claudette

    July 28, 2015 at 20:11

    Great post! Good info! Thanks for sharing.

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  5. Julia

    July 28, 2015 at 20:49

    Great points to remember for getting kids ready to go back to school.

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  6. Michelle Hwee

    July 28, 2015 at 21:06

    This is lovely! I so could use this. I can’t believe its back to school time already!!

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  7. Liz Mays

    July 28, 2015 at 21:12

    I really like how you cover both things and emotional prep in your list. Well done!

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  8. melandria romero

    July 29, 2015 at 03:34

    it’s very important to learn the importance of schooling, teens must understand that this are for their own future.

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  9. Mama to 5 BLessings

    July 29, 2015 at 05:53

    Those are great tips. We homeschool all year long, we start our new year next month!

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  10. Jennifer H

    July 29, 2015 at 06:46

    These are great tips for back to school. I think it’s important to always prepare our kids.

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  11. Tina @ My Highest Self

    July 29, 2015 at 07:22

    Yes, I wish more parents worked on #5 with their children. It is frustrating the way teens act these days!

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  12. Shann Eva

    July 29, 2015 at 08:31

    My baby is only heading to kindergarten this year, but I’ll have to come back to this when he’s ready for high school.

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  13. Ourfamilyworld

    July 29, 2015 at 12:28

    I believe that it very important to talk to our kids about emotions and peer pressures. These are awesome tips.

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  14. Elizabeth O.

    July 29, 2015 at 12:30

    All these are great tips. The high rate of teens suffering from depression is alarming. We should really talk to them about this.

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  15. Debbie Denny

    July 29, 2015 at 17:50

    Good list. Respect is important

    Reply
  16. Danielle

    August 7, 2015 at 19:39

    I do not miss being a teen! Those were hard years! This is a great way to take some pressure off them and make it easier!

    Reply

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