Helping busy high school parents navigate sports, senior year, and scholarships – without missing deadlines or losing your sanity.
Between working full-time and raising a high school athlete, I realized how overwhelming the high school years can feel — especially senior year. I created this site to share the simple systems, checklists, and real-life solutions that helped our family stay organized with schedules, scholarships, events, and graduation planning.
The High School
survival guide
If your child just entered high school or suddenly became a senior and you feel like you missed a meeting explaining everything — start here.
How to Organize Senior Year Scholarships
Senior Year Master Checklist for Parents
What Parents Are Actually Responsible for Senior Year
College Application Timeline (Parent Version)
FOR SPORTS PARENTS & TEAM MOMS
High school sports come with schedules, travel, team expectations, and about 500 things no one tells you ahead of time.
Top Parent Searches:
- Away game packing list for athletes
- What to bring to high school football games (parents)
- Team bus snack ideas for athletes
- Sports banquet planning checklist
- Football game day parent survival kit
- How team moms organize team meals
SCHOLARSHIPS & COLLEGE PREP (without the overwhelm)
You don’t have to know everything about college admissions — you just need a system.
Articles to link:
Top Searches Parents Make:
- How to track scholarships for seniors
- Local vs national scholarships explained
- Parent checklist for FAFSA preparation
- How recommendation letters work
- What seniors should be doing each month
If you’re waiting until January of senior year to start looking at scholarships like I was, you might already be late for some of the biggest opportunities. Many national scholarships open — and close — in the first months of senior year, which was a hard lesson I learned.
SENIOR YEAR & GRADUATION PLANNING
Senior year moves fast. This section helps you stay ahead of the important dates and traditions.
- Graduation photo outfit ideas
- Senior night gift ideas (sports)
- Locker decoration ideas
- Graduation party planning checklist
- Dance’s Day Date Ideas
- Senior ad for yearbook what to include
MOST HELPFUL PARENT TOOLS & ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS
- My senior scholarship binder system
- Best planners for high school students
- Game day organization supplies
- Team mom organization supplies
- Athlete laundry & gear system
- Student athlete injury must-haves
For a long time, I kept thinking there must be a meeting I somehow missed — the one where someone explains how high school and especially senior year actually works for parents. Between working full-time and raising a high school athlete, the schedules, forms, deadlines, events, and scholarship information seemed to come from everywhere at once. We almost missed important opportunities simply because I didn’t even know when to start looking. I began creating simple systems just to keep our family on track — binders, checklists, calendars, and routines that helped us stay ahead instead of constantly playing catch-up. I created this site to share those same practical tools and lessons, so other parents don’t have to figure it all out the hard way or feel like they’re behind before they even start.
