Online - August 14, 2008

Saved by the Bell

2008 Back to School Guide

Here’s a five-step plan that will have them up and out the door with a smile on their faces.

One: Get Them Psyched
Build back to school buzz with a Giftventure treasure hunt. Buy the loot (notebooks, crayons, pencils), hide it around the house, and fill out a few questions online. Giftventure will snail mail your little scholar three packages with puzzles and games to lead them to the goods.

Two: Get Them Up, Up
Teach Me Time’s alarm clock is an interactive talking timepiece and night-light that changes colors: yellow when it’s time to snooze, green when it’s time to rise.  

Three: Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate
They say fruit punch; you say water. Compromise with Bot water in lemon, berry, grape, and orange. Every bottle is fortified with vitamins and has only nine grams of sugar. (That’s nothing compared to upwards of twenty grams in other punches.)

Four: Keep It Together
Hair stays out of eyes with days of the week hairclips; books, pencils, and homework stay organized in a Paul Frank convertible backpack.

Five: Make It a Memory
Once the back to school battle has been won, track accomplishments and save projects in the School Years memory book.

That’s an A+.