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Empty Backpacks on the First Day of School?
Back-to-school inevitably brings a bit of anxiety for both parent and child. For the kid, summer’s almost over. For the parents (let’s face it, usually the mom) there’s the stress of shopping for back-to-school supplies.
So in a perfect world, Junior Leagues wouldn’t have back-to-school programs because every kid would have parents who can buy a backpack’s worth of school supplies.
But this isn’t a perfect world.
Literacy Requires Reading – Even in the Summer!
Literacy has been a core focus of The Junior League for decades. But the kind of literacy program that makes us smile is a program that puts good books in…