school's OUT, Home's IN- what a relief !

As-salaam alaikum wa-rahmatullahi wa-barakatuhu

Our family went to school for 10 years and we had been integrated into the system, breaking away did have its anxieties and a few withdrawal pains, but this July as I watched as most families making a mad dash to uniform and stationary shops, I realized there were somethings I been relieved off now that the kids do not go to school and here they are: 

 - the mad dash to the always crowded uniform/ stationary/ shoe shops before the school year begins

 - fretting over a forgotten lunch box, school badge, note book when kids have left for school

 - being stressed all day over a forgotten homework copy only to have your child come home and cheerfully tell you that the teacher did not ask for it today

  rehearsing for a spelling test all week to find out that the test is postponed to the next week and sometimes canceled with a new list to practice for next week

 - reading homework!!! "read the chapter 5 times each of five days to be tested at the end of the week" (If the teacher has time/ remembers)

 - Dress up day: "why can't i be spiderman? all my friends will"

 - Notices that say: Please send a chart paper/ thermoboll sheet / a green snack / a white tee shirt/ a white orchid for TOMORROW's activity

 - Frantic calls to other parents to make sense of homework written in kid's diary

 - Stress to locate school books when a teacher has not returned a book but assigned homework in it - yes it happens!

 - Stress when the child's bench mate has accidentally taken your child's homework book home, guilt when your child has brought home someone else's book home

 - new concepts introduced 2 weeks before examinations

 - The whole month of stress just before examination week!

 - Trying to make your child complete all the review homework then making him practice those concepts he really needs to review

 - frantic calls to/ from parents/ teachers to verify if the school is closed the following day due to disturbances in the city

 - having to insist that my child must write his speech/ essay/ poem on his own because its his work and it doesn't matter if his friend's father/ mother/ aunty/ grandfather who is a doctor/ lawyer/college professor wrote it for him and he'll win the contest

 -teachers who think your child is strange because he doesn't draw faces on pictures/ likes to draw butchers and guns/ doesn't enjoy colouring/ wears shorts that cover his knees

 - PTMs where a subject teacher addresses your child by somebodyelse's name and then tells you about his progress (is she speaking about him or the child whose name she addressed him as?)

 - Holiday Home work!!!

 ALHUMDULILLAH what a relief!
Feel free to share your experiences too.