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up your child. • Make up a goodbye ritual that your child can count on. Don’t ask for your child’s permission to leave, return after you’ve left if you hear her^ry, bribe your child into letting you leave, or sneak away, even if you’re tempted to avoid a big teary scene. Give a hug, a kiss, and a warm but firm goodbye. • Let your positive attitude towards school serve as a model for your child. Sometimes it’s difficult to figure out who’s having the worst time accepting this new situation and growth, you or your child. Your child’s enthusiasm will wilt in direct proportion to your anxiety or sadness. • Even if you’re incredibly busy, it’s worth scheduling in some occasional overlap time when you drop off or pick up your child from day care. Hang around for a bit, play with your kid, chat with your day care provider about how your child is

JADA Continued from C8 doing. Starting the school year right • Keep school clothes and play clothes in two different places to make dressing choices easier in the mornings. Store out-of-season and dress clothes where your child doesn’t see them to avoid fights over wearing a party dress to school or shorts in the winter. • Note on your family calendar any special items your child needs to bring to school on a particular day: such as a shirt for a tie-dye art project, show-and-tell, or sneakers for gym class. When your child brings home reminders from school, read them with a highlighter in hand to mark important dates or items needed and to make it easier to transfer the critical information to your family calendar. • Schedule time to meet individually with your child’s new teacher. Think about how you plan to interact with her and the classroom at large.

Create a system to keep track of questions and issues to go over with your child’s teacher. • To get your child to share information about his day at school, ask specific questions, such as, “Who did you sit with (do a group project with, eat lunch with) today?” or “Did anyone get in trouble with the teachers today?’ Try asking silly questions like, “Did they serve zebra tails again for snack today?,” to have your child laugh or shrug like you must be an idiot, and tell you every detail about snack that you ever wanted to know. • Expect behavior meltdowns or tears after school for the first few weeks. Your child will be coping with a whole new set of challenges, which requires hard work, concentration, and lots of self-control. From www.momcentral.com and The Mom Book by Stacy DeBroff (Simon & Schuster 2002)

Tackle your clutter one step at a time

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(NAPSI) — If the words “clutter” and “messy closet” fill you with dread, you’re not alone. And you needn't feel guilty about it either, so say professional organizers and behavioral health therapists who are seeing a trend. More people are seeking help to bring order into their out-of-control homes and offices. Reasons for excessive clutter, organizers say, can include the fear of being without, competition with neighbors and peers, lack of time, living with people who are “clutterbugs” and just “holding on to lovable items.” » “You know, those items like the dress a woman met her husband in or a suit that a salesman wore on a record-breaking day,” explains Neil Balter, a closet organizing expert and consultant to ClosetMaid. “People have become inundated with things coming in so quickly,” explained Linda Rothschild, immediate past president of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) and president and chief executive organizer of Cross It Off Your List, her 12-year-old New York City business. Christy Best, a Monterey, Ca-lif.-based professional organizer, and founder of the online Clutterbug Network, says she has been busy “helping people change their living environments and their lives” ever since the day she placed an ad in her local weekly newspaper six years ago. “I’ve seen enough stuff, extra stuff, in the homes of my 600 clients in the San Francisco area to outfit an entire city,” she said. Balter, who’s been building closet organizing systems and redesigning people’s cluttered closets for more than 20 years, claims everyone has at least one messy

closet.

The hardest part of busting clutter is getting started. But once you start, momentum takes over. Organizing the clutter and throwing

THE UNCLUTTERED CLOSET: One easy way to unclutter is to remove 10 items Immediately, including those shoes with the curled up toes.

out items no longer useful gives you control over your life. Less time is squandered looking for things. “You know where things are, can retrieve them with ease, and get out the door that much faster,” said Rothschild. The Cluttered Closet Balter says the closet itself can be part of the closet clutter prob-

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“It doesn’t help that most closets have one shelf and one pole and only so much space for hanging clothes,” he said. That ’ s easily remedied by “double hanging,” maximizing the hanging space by adding another pole. Redesigning the closet with an organizing system can double the usable space. However, most people, Balter says, live by the 80/20 rule: They wear 20 percent of the clothes in their closet 80 percent of the time. The rest is in “storage” so clutter busting the closet takes a “get tough” frame of mind. Anyone contemplating breaking the 80/20 rule can obtain a free brochure from ClosetMaid.

The closet expert suggests you start by counting and removing 10 items from the closet immediately. On Balter’s 10-item hit list: “The shoes with the curled up toes, the beautiful blouse with the wine stain across the front, the 20-odd sweatshirts or T-shirts you never wear,” he explains, chuckling. Then look at every item as if it belonged to someone else. Make four piles: clothes for the dry cleaner, the tailor, for charity, and what you’ll throw away. What’s left in your closet are the “A list” items. To obtain the free brochure, “Tips for Creating Your Dream Closet" call 1-800-874-0008. For more information, visit www. closetmaid.com.

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