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"As yellow buses start heading back to school, you might notice some of them being trailed by a little line of cars. Predators? Pervs?
Nope. Parents.
"I was talking to a bunch of parents and found out they all follow the bus for the first week or so," one mother told me the other day. "I sat there thinking that I was a really bad mom because that thought had never even occurred to me!"
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"They can't seem to let go," says Natascha Santos, a school psychologist in Great Neck, N.Y., on Long Island—and she's not talking about the kids. This could be because everywhere parents turn, the advice-o-sphere keeps harping on how incredibly hard they must work to ease their child's incredibly harrowing adjustment to school."
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