School ends when you leave at 16, right? Well, maybe 18, or your early 20s if you went to Hogwarts. In any case, school ends when you're an adult ... right?

Wrong.

Once you're a parent, school starts all over again.

I'm not just talking about the school run, a part of the day that instils fear in the hearts of parents around the world. For this section of the site, we mean all things SCHOOL.

We're talking uniform shopping, emails, meetings, donations, payments, ad-hoc expenses, rules, homework, trips, emails, friends, and their friends' parents - because let's be honest, kids have no standards - and did I mention the emails? If there is anything schools love more than educating children, it's confusing parents with piss-poor communication and what can only be described as digital diarrhoea all hidden under the label of transparency.

If you're the parent who can never remember if it's non-uniform day or not, and then has to hunt high and low for the £2 you need to pay for the privilege, then this is for you. We're going to offer practical school survival tips to prepare you for everything from homework battles to sports day politics while prearing you for PTA meetings where you feel like an outsider and how to not panic when you wake up on the last day of term and remember that you had forgotten to get teacher gifts … again … and when push comes to shove, have no idea what your kids' teachers are even called.

If you've just gotten out of the car, having completed another school run with bed hair while still wearing your pyjamas, it's time for you to grab a cup of coffee and settle down.

We've got you covered.

Whether it's 8 am and you just realised it's World Book Day, or your middle child is yelling about how their PE kit has been in the wash for a week, it doesn't matter.

Because the truth is, we're all just winging it and hoping for the best.