I must confess I am both exhilarated and exhausted, having spent the past month preparing my children for this new academic year. 

With the benefits of experience and hindsight, this time, my wife and I devised a strength-based, divide-and-conquer plan. While she settled the haircuts and uniforms, drawing on her eye for aesthetics, I procured the textbooks and sorted out the transport and tuition arrangements as the chief logistician in the family.