Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Labor Day Blues

RELATIVELY SPEAKING

Plan now to avoid child-care panic

Maybe you know the feeling: It's Thursday evening and you just realized there's no school on Friday. What to do with the kids?

A little planning now could prevent that last-minute panic, says Charlotte Shoup Olsen, family systems specialist with Kansas State University Research and Extension.

Check the school calendar now and make note of holidays, teacher in-service days and other times students will be out of school or dismissed early. Arrange child care now, rather than trying to piece something together the night before.

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