Leading up to the start of school starts and I've been wracked with guilt and a little bit of sadness. As are apparently half of the other moms in my neighborhood.

As human beings, we get spread out everyday, we spread our attention at work, we worry about paying bills, what's for dinner, what's going on politically, there is so much stimulation everyday in our lives that we literally have to spread ourselves between tomorrow, yesterday, endless to do lists.

Somewhere between Generation X and millennial movement, school has become so much more involved for parents, and so much more complex than it used to be.

Summer is almost over. In the libraries we are girding our loins for the start of the school year. No more happy families picking up audiobooks for road trips; it's time for the after-school junior high crowds (heaven help me) and . . . dun dun dunnnn . . . school assignments.

This time of year is like the 2nd "New Years". What's next for our kids and the school year, what's next for the holidays, and what's next for us personally.

Does back to school also mean an IEP for someone in your family? Karen's series on her son's IEP has great ideas and plenty of "been there" camaraderie.

Looks like I’ll be spending another year wondering why our schools aren’t using technology like they could be.