Challenging School Beginnings
There are three events during the year that are very financially challenging for parents. Christmas, the holidays, and the start of school. School entry is especially difficult. At Christmas, one can buy modest gifts and bake fewer cookies. School bags, notebooks, covers, art supplies, slippers, gym clothes, gym shoes, and so on. If only school supplies are paid for, there are also not a few payments for school funds, cultural funds, and adaptive courses, and then high school students have to pay for textbooks as well. The total amount is truly enormous, and if a family ha