Get Confidence in myself to do the School run again

So I suppose you will say looking at the Title think, how is the school run got to do with getting confidence in doing this everyday think in school year and why not relax and take in these moments?

Well I do, yet I found it the first year like I was on some kind of mission, and being stress head comes with these type of worries. 

Looking at the cause, it was to do with the route to school, as we would cross over a really busy road, and yet it only had one Zebra Crossing but was an extra 10 minutes walk, which I didn't mind, but my son wanted to cross without using this, and I know terrible, and yes I would have fears about it. 

Then my son wanted to walk a different route and suddenly I was fine. 

So to help confidence in doing the school run, if you take the less stressed route to school, do it, as it saves you get worried and dreading it. 

Life is full of roads and often it the way we've gone about it has made it difficult. 

Now I am all about keeping it simple. I wrote two parenting sites on Wordpress, if you wish to check them out:

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To get confident with doing the school run, have everything packed ready for the day, within plenty of time, but also plan the different routes if there are many different ways and go through which would cause less stress about it. 

Show your children of the route and how you will be taking them and who will pick them up at the end of the day. 

Have a check-off list of what you need to take on hand, and if you can attach it to a wall or fridge, whatever available, and the most used space in your home, that you and you children can clearly see it. 

Do a separate list of what you need to take and they need to, and help the school run easier, have them pack their bags and tick off the list. 

Just keep it simple, use any free time you have and delegate if you can, and have one parent to drop off and the other to pick up. Keep comunicating with other adults who will be assisting you, including the school teacher and your child. 

So lets get the first day done and then whatever helps save the stress do it. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X  

Stand up and be counted/Never be excluded again/Happiness should be all round

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If you are lacking confidence, because of the way you look or feel, and you aren't being listened to then don't take this anymore. 

Stand up for yourself and if you are with someone who pushes you away that you love and dangles you in front of friends cause you are popular, you have a high profile and cause you are grabbing people's attention, and they aren't, then talk with them and see that it isn't out to get them, or be forgotten. We can all be friends, but I have learned now, in my 40's there are people who will always be like that, no matter what so, are they friends or not, that is what you need to ask them, and you be in charge to decide are they worth sticking by or not?  

Give yourself credit. Something that I have had to work on, and be counted. If you feel you are being pushed out then never be excluded again as they are doing it because they feel, that if you are happy that they aren't, but happiness can grow all round. If you are kind to someone then chances are they will be kind to you. 

If you open the door to someone and they don't acknowledge then say "Thank you wouldn't go a miss", and keep faith, not everyone is like that, but they feel that the door should be opened to them, when no I could have just ignored and closed the door in their face...yet would I do that, is that making me as bad as them? . 

I find when you meet someone who isn't thankful it can rub off, and working in Customer Service there were people who would ring to have an argument, because they don't care who you are or a friend, and someone who is expected to be rude to and angry at. 

This can lead again on you, and rubs off, and when I would go home to my ex-husband I would often explode.

Yet there are ways to have them change their minds, by agreeing "yes that it not right, let me help fix it" and I have been an angry customer, when I was gonna use BT to install our internet, because they had a great deal on their website, but they kept saying where I used to live we couldn't have the internet, because we didn't have a the right cable outside to do so, and every engineer who visited said the same. 

What did I do cancel, and they then would allow us to change over for about a month, and that didn't encourage me to then join BT but pushed me further away.

So again, stand up and be counted, and never be exclused again. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X