As a mom of two new kindergarteners, I’m quickly realizing one thing: Back-to-school season is not for the faint of heart. Walking your kids through multiple transitions is just not that easy.

She told her little girl she’d been named the class “gate leader,” a made-up role that immediately turned tears into excitement In an interview with PEOPLE, Lauren shares how the simple idea changed ...

The scene outside a school building on the first day classes resume can be an emotional one: wobbling chins, tear-stained cheeks and lots of throat-clearing ... and those are just the parents. As ...

Every morning had become a heartbreak. For days, Lauren Baltazar’s daughter would burst into tears before school, clinging to her mom’s leg and begging not to go — an all-too-familiar scene for ...