{"id":4100,"date":"2015-08-17T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2015-08-20T07:43:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T11:43:30","slug":"parent-connection-getting-ready-for-back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/parent-connection-getting-ready-for-back-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent Connection: Getting ready for back to school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHard to believe! The start of the 2015-2016 school year is almost here,\u201d writes Parent Connection guest columnist Susan Tolley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SusanTolley1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4102\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SusanTolley1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SusanTolley\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u201cAfter a summer that probably alternated between stretches of go-go-go and periods of pure, delightful sluggishness,\u201d adds Tolley, \u201cit is time to get children ready for back to school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tolley, who served as an elementary school teacher, assistant principal, principal and central office administrator, speaks nationally and internationally to school divisions about the importance of building relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Her Parent Connection guest column describes six steps she believes lead to a positive and successful return to school &#8211; put them to bed, feed them, dress them, and put them on the bus as well as get yourself ready and celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>To read Tolley\u2019s complete column or past Parent Connection guest columns, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbschools.com\/ParentConnection\/columnist\/index.asp\">vbschools.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHard to believe! The start of the 2015-2016 school year is almost here,\u201d writes Parent Connection guest columnist Susan Tolley. \u201cAfter a summer that probably alternated between stretches of go-go-go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4103,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions\/4103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}