5 Easy Ways to Keep Your Kids on Track This Year

Welcome to our guide to Back-to-School Success: 31 days of tips, apps, recipes, and more to help you make this your family's best school year yet. Today, day 15, is all about keeping kids on track from the first day to Summer break.

We start the school year with the best intentions of keeping our kids organized and on an academic schedule. But after a few weeks, handouts get left at the bottom of a backpack, homework gets done in front of the TV, and projects get left till the last minute. Not only do these bad habits make everyone more stressed, but it sets our children up for academic struggles. Luckily, there are a few easy ways to turn things around and put your child on track for a successful school year.

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