I know that not everyone thinks the same, but I like going back to school, I always liked it, when I was little and now that I’m a mother, too. When I was a child, I enjoyed the arrival of September and buying material at the mall: pencils, erasers, pencil cases, backpacks… I spent a lot of time selecting what was «extremely» useful for classes.

Of course, my parents had a different concept of utility from me, but we always managed to reach an agreement that involved removing about half of the things that I had put in the cart. And that is basically what I have to do now with my children. They also get overexcited in the mall, in the crowded corridors of the school supply area. And I perceive that now there are still many more things than in my time.

What I also enjoy, although it requires a lot of time, is preparing everything for the children. Because they buy a lot, but then it’s the mom who puts everything, like the personalized ribbons on all her things. That has also changed with respect to my school stage. Now everything has to be put a name tape, from the backpack to the clothes, especially in the case of younger children. And it makes sense as I have already seen a couple of times. My little son lost a jacket that, as much as I insisted at school, I could never recover, and it was very expensive.

And it is that in recent years they removed the lost objects due to the Covid issue and the things that were lost went to the dark side of the force or who knows very well where, because they disappeared. That wouldn’t have happened if he had put personalized ribbons on it, but he forgot me with that jacket.

And when I see how the children go to their classes on the first day of school, I get emotional again remembering myself in that same scene, being fired by my mother from the other side of the school fence.