Create Structure for Your Child After School With this Checklist

Z. Andrew Jatau
December 20, 2022

Younger kids are often zonked when they get home from school—especially in the early days when they're learning new classmates names and trying to remember where they put their Math folder. Creating some structure when they get home—by using an After School Checklist like this one by Hopscotch's Head of Clinical Programming, z-andrew-jatau MS, LPC—will help kids feel more in control and give them a daily sense of completion.

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