Designate an area in the house for school stuff (backpacks, lunchboxes, etc.). Get a basket for school paperwork that need to be signed. Make a week’s worth of school lunches on one day. Create a master family calendar and e-mail appointments to the spouse and grandparents. All are tips the Miami Herald [1] offered to working parents as ways with which to cope with back-to-school madness, saying that by planning ahead you can try and hope to stay “organized and sane.” (September 2007)