Tampa Bay Area students are just one weekend away from the new school year.

First experience with school. I think shes excited, but well see, said Larissa Guevara.

Guevara is sending her four-year-old daughter to VPK. Her back-to-school checklist is almost complete.

Getting a book bag, last minute like small little things that I still have to run around and go get, and just basically putting uniforms together and sending her off, said Guevara.

From school supplies to sleep schedules, doctors want families to take steps to make the first day as pain free as possible.

That means getting some shut eye and starting routines now.

Children should be getting more than 8 hours of sleep, and a lot of these kids are going to bed at 3:00am, 4:00am nowadays when summer comes, so they need to go

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