Time Management.....A Child's play

Time management is really just a fancy way of describing the act of balancing more than one opportunity or responsibility at once. 

Like any other skill, it takes practice ...

 By showing your child early on how to manage his time, you are instilling a skill he can use long after he’s donned his college cap and gown. This is a skill he can use for a  lifetime.

 Time-management is essential for everyone. But if you can get your child to learn the main principles, that’s a tool they can use forever. It is a principle that impacts children’s emotional, social, physical, mental, financial and spiritual lives.

 It’s a skill every child needs to thrive. If we don't train them in good habits while they are young, they will spend the rest of their lives trying to shake a bad habit.

Managing time well gets harder as life goes on. The fact is, there are more opportunities in life than there is time to do them. 

Start kids early at learning how to weigh their options. Not every task is equally important and not every task is equally urgent. Help your child determine what things can or cannot wait, and then, depending upon what they choose to tackle first, discuss how that will affect the rest of his time that day. 

He’ll start to learn how much time he needs to allocate to certain responsibilities and will improve his productivity too.

1.Kids learn by example,so set the right example.If as a parent we stay organised .it is more likely that kids follow suit

2.Know your values

Begin teaching time management by establishing your family’s priorities.  Instead of thinking in minutes and hours, think of the big picture.  In our home it looks like this:

• God
• Family
• School
• Work
• Play
• Help them prioritise
• 3.Do less

Managing time is often about dropping less important activities more than it is about fitting in new activities.  Avoid overscheduling your kids.    It can be hard to say no to some of the amazing opportunities that come up during the course of a year.  Save yourself the trouble and know that some activities will have to go on the long term goal list.

4.Avoid procrastination

Teach kids to prioritize their responsibilities and deal with the difficult things first.  Getting your least favorite tasks out of the way early in the day helps to avoid the temptation to put the task off until a more ‘convenient’ time.

 Parents should not  put undue pressure on their kids, whose time in today’s hectic world is already so overmanaged. 

 Its important  for parents to be forgiving when their children don’t get it right. 

There is something to be said for letting the clouds roll by,  The idea, in the end, is to help kids make the best use of their work time, so, being kids, there’s still plenty of time for play.

“The ultimate goal is to help children build internal self-discipline and a capacity to manage themselves.”