Back-to-school Checklist Should Include more than Notebooks, Bluejeans

Parents readying their children for the school year tend to focus on buying required school supplies and new clothes.

But the back-to-school to-do list should include other important tasks as well, according to physicians at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Such things as establishing a sleep routine and shopping for healthy foods to pack for school lunches and snacks should be part of parents’ checklist.Parents should also be aware of the eye strain that school work piled on top of the time already spent on the computer and in front of the television can cause in their children. But they can help ease these problems, says a BCM doctor, by limiting time spent at the computer.(Source: Baylor College of Medicine : September 2007)