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It is that time of year—another start to a brand new school year filled with little fresh faces. They are coming, with their lunchboxes and backpacks filled to the brim with curiosity, questions, and big emotions … and they are not coming alone. Riding along on this most important journey are their parents. As these smallest of learners cling to their moms and dads, they anxiously scope out this new and strange place called “school.” Not only are parents carrying their new scholars through the doors, but they are also carrying the weight of their own big emotions. For many parents, this might be their first drop-off, and they have no idea what to expect or what might happen once they let go of that little hand.
Parents are always filled with a jumble of emotions as any new school year begins. We are, however, in a “new normal,” and the children and parents coming through our doors have been impacted, as we all have, by the COVID-19 era. For many of our little ones, this is the only world they have ever known. Two and a half years of unpredictability, disruption, economic concerns, and loss of loved ones have caused levels ...