There is a deep dark secret about kindergarten that nobody wants you to know. You'll only find out as the parent of a kindergartener and only after a few weeks have gone by. Then it's too late. You're stuck.

At first, you get a couple sheets of paper sent home with your child. Truly, you are more concerned with your child's adjustment to school than by these papers. After the first few days and even into the first couple of weeks, the notifications and permission slips and other paperwork and handouts seem OK. A lot, yes, but you just think it will slow down once the initiation is over.

No such luck.

Sending your child to kindergarten is a part time job. A volunteer effort for which the task is endless paperwork and worry over the importance of each "official" document.

We have come to the conclusion that our kindergarten daughter needs a home office. She needs her own filing cabinets, file folders, three-hole punch and desk chair on wheels. And we parents will be the ones hunched over the miniature furniture fretting as we sign and date our permission for this and that.

We'll probably need a shredder.

I hope they create a Facebook page soon. So I can become a fan of this kindergarten class. Then I can read event posts online and simply click the thumbs-up "like" icon to send my approval. And this home office better be deductible.