It’s August, and around here that means that we’ve started our series of “Back-to-School Dinners.” To get the kids ready to return to school, we plan an evening out with each one where we get the chance to talk to him alone, he gets to hang out with us and have our undivided attention, and we get him locked and loaded for the upcoming school year. It’s like the coach having a one-on-one (or in our case, a two-on-one) with each player before the start of the season.
We do our back-to-school pep talks over dinner, but you could do it over breakfast or lunch or ice cream—or just as a special “meeting” on the back porch…