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9/3/2008
10 Tips for Organized School Mornings
Nancy Rothwell joined Mark Halverson on Wednesdays Frontpage. Here is her contact information and the informations she presented.
Nancy Rothwell Straighten UP Organizing,LLC 715.831.2119
straightenup@charter.net www.straighten-up.net
10 Tips For Organized School Mornings
(1). Set bedtime.
Have age appropriate bed times for each child so that they get the sleep they need to actually wake up on their own and are refreshed for school. Stick to the time as much as possible each night. They wake up happier and are easier to manage.
(2). Set table for breakfast.
Have the kids decide the night before what they would like to have for breakfast. Have the table set for breakfast, including the cereal boxes on the table before going to bed at night. As the children wake at different times, this enables them to easily serve themselves.
(3). Prepare lunch boxes.
Set out lunch boxes and put any non perishable items in the night before. For example, put crackers/snacks into re-sealable plastic bags and put into lunch boxes, but fruit like watermelon and sandwiches-keep in refrigerator or make in the morning.
(4). Pick out clothes.
Ensure that clothes are in the right spots for the children to access them themselves. Have kids pick their clothes out the night before –which includes underwear, socks & shoes.
(5). Children pack their backpack.
Children should pack their backpack as much as possible the night before. It is their responsibility to ensure they have their lunchbox & all the things that they need for their day at school. It is helpful in training them to keep their possessions organized. If they have left their hat at home because they left it in the bedroom, instead of putting it back in their backpack, they will have to accept the consequences of this.
(6). Key time markers.
Have key times in the morning at which certain activities need to occur. At (or before) a certain time-children need to brush their teeth, get themselves dressed, room picked up. Have the kids leave the house at the same time each day. You may print out a schedule and put it on the refrigerator so everyone knows what it is.
(7). Children take away their breakfast dishes from table.
Each child should be responsible (except for toddlers) for taking their dishes from the table to the kitchen sink and each child should place their dishes in the dishwasher. If you do not have a dishwasher, make a plan for how the dishes will get washed.
(8). Children make beds and tidy their room.
Kids should be responsible for this. It is best to teach them to make their bed immediately upon getting up.
(9). Walk to school.
If this is possible. This is not possible for everyone, but it is less stressful than packing all the children in the car, finding a park, getting them out etc.
(10). Keep Calm.
This is probably the hardest one of these to do sometimes, but even when kids are infuriating you, try to calmly deal with the situation, (as opposed to ranting and raving at them!) that it has much less chance of escalating or snowballing into more issues.
9/2/2008
Mc Cain/Palin to Hold WI Rally Friday
Wisconsin will get its first direct look at the John McCain-Sarah Palin team on Friday. The G-O-P presidential hopeful and his running mate are scheduled visit Cedarburg, in their first campaign stop after leaving the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul. State G-O-P chairman Reince Priebus announced the event at a breakfast this morning for Wisconsin’s 77 delegates. He said the details were still being worked out – but it’s tentatively set for downtown Cedarburg around 10 Friday morning. Democrat Barack Obama has already appeared in the Badger State since accepting his party’s presidential nomination. He was in Milwaukee on Labor Day, speaking to around 15-thousand supporters and union workers.
9/2/2008
WI Golfer Named to Ryder Cup Team
P-G-A golfer Steve Stricker of Madison was named this morning to the U-S Ryder Cup team. Captain Paul Azinger (ay’-zing-er) announced his four personal selections, rounding out the American squad that will play a team of foreign-born golfers September 19th-through-21st in Louisville. The other captain’s picks were Hunter Mahan, J-B Holmes, and Chad Campbell. They’ll join eight automatic qualifiers who made the team through their standings on the U-S Ryder Cup season points’ list. Stricker fell just short on that list – and he recently said he needed Azinger’s blessing to make the team. Azinger said his picks were determined on how well they were playing lately. Stricker tied for 13th over the weekend at the Deutsche Bank Championship. It moved him up to 13th in the Fed-Ex point standings halfway through the four rounds of the playoffs. And Stricker moved up two places in this morning’s World Golf Rankings to number-eight. Phil Mickelson is the highest-ranking American on the Ryder Cup squad. Also making it was Kenny Perry, who made a controversial decision in July to play in Milwaukee’s P-G-A tournament instead of the British Open, so he’d get a better chance of making the Ryder Cup in his home state of Kentucky.
Meanwhile, Jerry Kelly of Madison dropped five places to 67th in the new World Rankings, after missing the cut in Boston. Pewaukee native Mark Wilson remains 109th in the world, after tying for 40th in the Deutsche tournament. Kelly, Wilson, and Stricker all made the Top-70 who will advance to the third Fed-Ex playoff event – the B-M-W Championship which starts Thursday in Saint Louis. The injured Tiger Woods still leads the World Rankings. Phil Mickelson is second, and Vijay Singh – the winner of the Deutsche Bank tourney – moved up two spots to number-three.
9/2/2008
Brewers Host Mets Tonight
The Milwaukee Brewers will try again tonight to get closer to first-place in the National League Central, when they host the New York Mets again. The Brewers remained four-and-a-half games behind the Chicago Cubs after a 4-2 loss to the Mets last night. Both the Brewers and Mets have won four-of-their-last-five – and New York used their Labor Day victory to move two games ahead of Philadelphia in the N-L East. The Phillies are now the Brewers’ closest challenger for the Wild Card. Milwaukee now has a five-and-a-half game lead for that playoff spot. Left-hander Manny Parra will start for the Brewers tonight against southpaw Jonathon Niese. Parra is 10-and-6 with an E-R-A of four. He gave up one run in six innings of his last start, a no-decision at Saint Louis. Niese, the Mets’ top pitching prospect, will make his Major League debut. That’s after John Maine went on the disabled list last week with a bone spur in his right shoulder.
9/2/2008
Thousand of Students Reportedly Don't Have a Home
As school begins in most of Wisconsin, thousands of students will have no place to go home to this evening. State education officials said over eight-thousand youngsters were listed as homeless at the end of the 2006-07 school year. By law, the government is supposed to make sure youngsters don’t fall through the cracks – at least when it comes to getting an education. Each school district must name a homeless liaison, and those people enroll homeless youngsters and help them succeed in class. One of the state’s largest districts, Madison, has over 600 students without permanent addresses. Mandy Harvey of a Janesville charter school says some kids leave each afternoon without knowing where they’ll spend the night – or if they’ll get food, clean clothes, or a shower.
9/2/2008
R-N-C Back on Normal Schedule
(St. Paul, MN) -- Republican National Convention organizers are getting back to their regularly scheduled program today in St. Paul after scaling back over concern about Hurricane Gustuv. President Bush is on the schedule but will not be at the Xcel Energy Center -- he will address the crowd via satellite. Joe Lieberman, Fred Thompson, Minnesota's U-S Senator Norm Coleman and Representative Michele Bachman will also address the crowd. Organizers say they made the decision to go ahead with the full program after FEMA officials said that the levees are holding and the situation in the Gulf Coast looks like it is improving.
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