Back to school? Yes! In style and keen to learn

September always seems far away, but when it arrives it passes so quickly we don’t even notice it. We have, in fact, already reached the end and we can say that the first two weeks of school were a bit… unsettling, right? What with hot days and cool days, rain and weird weather, we have rather lost our bearings and we reckon we need to take a pause as we figure out how to start over as autumn arrives.

That’s why we have created this mini-guide to accompany our children and teenagers on their back-to-school adventure with fresher minds!

• Sport: old or new, just do it
  Getting used to the whole school-sports-competition-games routine is not an immediate thing, but as soon as you get back into it and the gears start turning again, you realise how much you had, in fact, missed it. Sport for our children is essential and doing it after school is optimal. It helps them to work of energy accumulated during the day, as well as providing a whole host of benefits that we already know about. Let them choose the sport they want to practise, but help them in their decision: many sports centres offer open days to introduce as many sports as possible. Check them out and see what they have to offer!

• Three new habits
  We often drag (not always positive) summer habits until almost Christmas out of laziness or unwillingness, such as eating a big breakfast, reading the same story or fairy tale to our kids or spending more time than necessary playing games on screen. To kick-start this new beginning and show that if you want to, you can, let’s invent 3 new (lovely and healthy) habits to do with our children. Such as reading a new book with them every month or playing a board game after dinner instead of going straight to the TV. If we suggest these to the kids as a fun thing to do, we will succeed!