Learning Points: Top tips on coping with back to school stress for you and the kids

It’s that time of year again; the long summer days are numbered, summer’s lease is all too short as she takes her last few breaths. We are now firmly back in the season of lunches, uniforms, books, and following a regimented timetable. Yes, the season of back to school has commenced.

Social media is busy this time of year as we’re inundated with witty portrayals of overly jubilant parents preparing to get rid of their kids out from under their jaded feet. But the reality can be something far starker and more challenging than Facebook would have us believe.