artwork
memos
newsletters
fieldtrip stuff
PAC news
scholastic book orders
and
so
on......
Here are a couple of quick tips that help me keep that mountain of paper under control.
Artwork:
Please believe me when I say you DO NOT have to keep EVERY SINGLE SOLITARY piece of paper your child has scribbled/drawn/written on.
It's true!
If you did keep every single solitary piece you would soon be swimming in a mountain of paper. And while I'm sure little Johnny is a very talented artist/doodler/scholar he will not have to go to therapy when he's older because his mom chucked some of the stuff he brought home from school.
It's true! (No, really. I'm not joking!)
- Tip #1: Have a box or folder in your office or the place in your home that you keep paperwork. Every day, throw the artwork/etc in this file. At the end of the month sort through it and limit yourself to keeping one or two of the best pieces - you can have your child help you choose (or if they are a packrat, like my youngest, you might be better off doing this alone)
- Tip #2: Sometimes kids do projects at school that are LARGE - if your child has a super special something like that - take a photo of him with the project and then junk it!
- Tip #3: At the end of the school year gather up all the pieces you've chosen to keep, have another look through to see if you *must* keep them all and then put them in a file with the year on it and store them in a box labeled "Johnny's School Artwork")
Memos, Newsletters, Fieldtrip Stuff, PAC News, Scholastic Book Orders, Etc, Etc, Etc:
I found last year that my computer desk was becoming a catch-all for all the kids' school papers. So I decided to assign a binder for this task, which I keep close to my desk.
I made 3 dividers:
- general school stuff (pertaining to both my kids, stuff like the newsletters)
- and then one for each boy for stuff specific to each one of them
Every pertinent paper is three hole punched and put in the binder behind it's respective divider.
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