Time Management in Kids
D Y Patil Dnyanshanti School
"Wake up!", " brush your teeth", "Take a shower", " Eat your breakfast", "Get dressed", "Hurry up, your bus is already here".
This sounds like every morning routine in most of the households. Kids sometimes tend not to listen to you and be engaged in their games and playtime without worrying about school or class. It's natural for children to get diverted and forget all about their schedule. Hence, we need to teach our children time management.
Let us apply these below tips and spare ourselves and our kids the scrutiny over their daily schedules.
1. Prioritize things
We can divide each task based on urgency and importance. The four divisions being like urgent and important, urgent but not important, important but not urgent and neither important nor urgent. Help your child divide each task according to these 4 categories and focus on them accordingly. This will help them complete each task at its respective time.
2. Make a calendar
Sit with your kids and help them make a calendar. Put on things like after school activities, playtime, leisure activities, family time. This will help them see what their day looks like. Your kids will become more independent once they start making a calendar and following it allowing you to stop checking their schedules.
3. Teach your kids how to measure time
Measuring time is as important and knowing how to tell time. Children must know how much time do they have for a particular activity and how will they complete the tasks in that given time.
4. Teach your kids to plan
Planning is the first step to achieving the target. You can draw or create a monthly plan with your kids about their daily activities and goals. Make a checklist about what are the everyday tasks and make sure your kids are following it.
5. Don't overburden your child
The most common mistake we commit is to try and engage our kids in every activity possible. We have a competitive spirit at heart to make our child good at every skill that there is, but we should understand that we are unnecessarily burdening our kids. Expose them to a set of activities and you will eventually see what they are good at. Let them pursue the hobby of their choice. This will not only help them set a proper schedule but also keep the interest alive. We don't want our kids to be learning every skill just for the sake of it. We would rather they excel at some skills and learn a bit of everything else.
Beginning time management at an early stage of childhood can help your children carry it out efficiently at later stages of their life. Let us raise our kids to achieve success by helping them master the art of time management.