20 Parenting Posts That Perfectly Capture the Transition Between Summer Chaos and the Back to School Routines

• 01

  Screen time rules? Never heard of her.

  
  via @letmemomsplain
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• 02

  Snacks per day: 432. Sanity left: 0.

  
  via @vornietom
• 03

  Every surface in my home is sticky, somehow.

  
  via @clhubes
• 04

  Pinterest moms, I salute you. I am not you.

  
  via @parentnormal
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• 05

  Didn’t even make it to June before losing it.

  
  via @sewistwrites
• 06

  Every day is 47 hours long.

  
  via @dadmann_walking
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• 07

  I now understand why my mom looked tired every August.

  
  via @AntsyButterfly
• 08

  Who knew the pool could feel like a second job?

  
  via @sarcasticmommy4
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• 09

  I’ve forgotten what silence sounds like.

  
  via @simoncholland
• 10

  Car smells like goldfish crackers and chlorine.

  
  via @DadandBuried
• 11

  We have officially run out of summer activities.

  
  via @BunAndLeggings
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• 12

  Pool bag permanently lives in the car now.

  
  via @momTruthBomb
• 13

  Summer brain has fully set in.

  
  via @BrianneKohl
• 14

  Labeling school supplies like I’m sending them to college.

  
  via @raisingteenstoday
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• 15

  This is no longer a vacation — it’s a siege.

  
  via @missmulrooney
• 16

  Target school supplies aisle = my Coachella.

  
  via @sarcasticmommy4
• 17

  Bus pulling up = choir of angels.

  
  via @parentnormal
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• 18

  House is quiet for the first time in months.

  
  via @jacana_mommy
• 19

  Missed them already… but also, freedom.

  
  via @drnicolebeurkens
• 20

  Summer chaos: defeated. Routine: restored.

  
  via @happy_barina

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