Well the cooler nights and crisper mornings has me thinking about fall and the back to school routine. As marketing coordinator at Digital Frog International, working on the back to school specials got me remembering that favorite time of year (especially for parents!) We each treasure memories from our own school days and the beginning of a new school year. I remember being so hot on the first day of school because I would insist on wearing my new fall school outfit even though it was 80 degrees out!

My daughters were always excited about the new school year, wondering who would be in their class, did they get the teacher they hoped for and of course how would they look in the new school outfit! We all look forward to the shopping trip for new binders, pens, pencils and of course stylish new clothes. In the interest of recycling and reusing we tried not to buy everything new each year though I gave up trying to make my children reuse the markers and colored pencils from one year to the next even though they were barely used, the old ones became the home work set and the new ones went off to school. My girls loved organizing the new binders with paper and dividers and they swore every new year to stay neat and organized in their books(usually that lasted the first 2 weeks)

My daughters have very diverse interests and have chosen very different paths in school. We had a surprise from one of our daughters when she went into science at college. Science was not of any interest to her in high school and after spending her summer working for Digital Frog International testing the new versions of our science programs SciencMatrix: Cell Structure and Function and The Digital Frrog 2.5 she had her interest piqued in anatomy and biology and is now working towards a career in the science field.

Our family will be celebrating the beginning of school for many more years as only one of our four girls has graduated from post secondary education.

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