As we enter this school year, please remember that care and empathy matter -- for teachers, for administrators, for other parents/ and yes, for ourselves.

Here are a few milestones that you really should be commemorating, too.

"The morning of his first day was a mix of emotions.”

My son and I read "The Kissing Hand" as we curled up together... our last night before he became a kindergarten student. I watched him drift off to sleep, knowing in the morning things would be different.