Teaching time management to our kids
It is essential to make it known to our kids that the wall clock is not just an item for interior decoration neither is their wrist watches just jewelries for fashion, they are for time measurements and managements.
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Let's teach our kids that time is an investment, having fun is good, however having fun all the time is not the best, we are meant to invest our time into activities that will yield profit and be of relevance to ourselves our classrooms and our homes.
Teach them how to tell time and measure it, help them learn the how many minutes make up an hour and how many makes up a given time, provide them with wrist watches and help them set it up.
For our kids it is important to help them organise their daily life, particularly when the school sessions are on, this way they wouldn't mix up study times for leisure time and screen time will be minimal.
Creating activity schedules for kids should not be necessarily because you want their life oulined or restricted, this isn't so good, kids easily get bored and might begin to feel restricted and imprisoned, allow your child to pick what to do during leisure hours, give them a say and create the timetable together.
The major essence of time management for them is to realise the value of time, and note that there is time for everything, and one should not always substitute the others.
No TV or gadgets during meal time.
No cartoons during study hours.
No gadgets during school hours
No sleeping during study hours
No TV during bedtime. etc
Teaching time management to kids at an early stage, reduces your stress for both parents and kids in the long run,it makes nag less and gives both parties a level of sanity, you appear to your kids more of a coach than a manager, the child gets a sense of responsibility and doesn't need to be compelled or wait for prompts always before getting things done.
Our kids need to get the best from people like you. Time management must be part of school children.thanks for sharing @phunke
@mcsamm this also applies to us as adults too, i am sure you picked a thing or 2 from it.
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