An ode to 'Back to School'
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Blogger Jen is a mum-of-seven and shares her hectic, crazy and certainly never dull life on her blog Mama-tude. Well experienced on Back-to-School time, the mum has written a very apt poem about the struggles us parents have to deal with in the run up to September!
The new school year is drawing near,
The teachers start to cry,
While parents empty bank accounts,
For school books they must buy.
The teachers start to cry,
While parents empty bank accounts,
For school books they must buy.
And uniforms and bags galore,
Shoes and runners are a must,
And pencils, pens and rulers too,
Parents feel that they'll go bust!
There's books to cover -
A lovely task,
And then they'll need a label,
As do the crayons, and lots of pens,
Which adorn the kitchen table.
.
The hope in labelling every one,
Is that they won't get lost,
That the kids will take good care of them.
After all the mounting cost.
The hope in labelling every one,
Is that they won't get lost,
That the kids will take good care of them.
After all the mounting cost.
But hopes are not enough I fear,
When it comes to lunchbox lids,
Which disappear in the first few days,
Lost by those pesky kids.
And pencil cases filled to the brim,
At the beginning of September,
By two weeks in, will be quite bare,
Because the kids, they won't remember,
Where they've left their pens and pencils
Or parers or rulers either.
You'll feel your hard work was all in vain.
You'll need to take a breather.
It's the same old drill each and every year,
With a lesson that makes you pensive
With all the costs when you add it up,
Free education is expensive!
Jen Hogan is Mum to Chloe, 15, Adam, 12, ten-year-old Jamie, Luke, seven, Zach, five, Tobey, three, and Noah who is 11 months. As a mum of seven life is hectic, crazy and certainly never dull, but she still finds the time to write for her blog Mama-tude.
