School has started. This time management guide is simple and effective for teaching children.

The summer vacation is coming to an end, and parents and children have gone from being overjoyed at the beginning to feeling disgusted with each other now. Because of children\’s various incooperation in study and life, many families have a raging parent-child war every day: the summer schedule is full, and none of it has been successfully completed so far; taking out textbooks to do homework, and then… Various excuses are used to work hard and procrastinate; after being urged to get up and go to bed a thousand times, the child is still slow…A summer vacation has passed, and the child\’s time has been lost, and his studies have been wasted. Small problems such as procrastination, dilly-dallying, and laziness make parents troubled. We are accustomed to attribute these behaviors to children\’s poor self-control. In fact, one of the main reasons behind this is that children do not know enough about time and do not know how to manage time correctly. Today’s article is from the perspective of time management to provide you with a new perspective on how to solve the problem of children’s procrastination. To understand and perceive time, cultivating children’s sense of time should start from an early age. If your child is only 2 or 3 years old now, you can already teach your child to know time through daily conversations. The simplest way is to start from the broad times of \”morning, noon, afternoon, evening\” to form a sense of time and time sequence. Probably know each other. Frequently chat with your children about what they did today, such as going out to buy groceries with grandma in the morning, watching cartoons in the afternoon, and going to the supermarket with their mother in the evening. Use daily conversations to improve your children\’s time sensitivity. At the same time, use some tools to help children perceive time. Prepare some sandglass timers for your children to let them understand that many things have a set time limit. For example, if a child wants to watch TV, tell him to wait until the hourglass ends before watching. Even the youngest child can feel the passage of time. Waiting for traffic lights is also a good time for children to feel the length of time. For children aged 5 or 6, we can also give them an alarm clock to learn how to recognize clocks. Knowing time may be a bit abstract for children, so you might as well use toys or picture books, such as \”The Book of Clocks\”, \”Hello Time\”, \”Francois and the Disappearing Time\”, etc. Set a deadline for things. No matter how big or small it is, parents need to help their children set a clear time limit. This is a kind of supervision. For example: \”You will have to do your homework after playing for ten more minutes.\” \”You will go out in 20 minutes. Change your clothes yourself.\” \”We must read these five books within 2 months.\” This kind of reminder method It seems simple, but it is actually the most effective. It can calmly tell the child what needs to be done in the next certain period of time, and the child knows how to execute it. As for the length of the deadline, it needs to be analyzed based on the child\’s situation. Except for tasks with clear time limits like homework, other things can give the child more reaction and buffer time. The point is to let your children know that there needs to be a certain degree of urgency to get things done. Avoid being too detailed when making time plans. There are some children around me. The schedules made during the summer vacation are divided into hours or even minutes. What to do at what time and what time is clearly written down. But such a detailed plan is often difficult to stick to. Because something different happens every day: I got stuck on a question in my homework, which took a long time; last nightFamily dinners lead to getting up late in the morning; grandma comes to the house while reading… Plans can never keep up with changes. Children can easily give up during such changes, and can easily become frustrated if they are unable to complete the things on the schedule. After all, children are not products on the production line. Every link requires precision and no errors. Therefore, the initial plan for children should be flexible and not too rigid. Some tasks can be divided into weekly and daily units, and the daily plan can be divided into whole periods such as morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and night. Flexible time will make it easier to adjust. Start cultivating the simplest punctuality habit. I heard a story before. A high school teacher found that several boys in the class often walked into the classroom slowly and slowly before starting class. Occasionally they were late for 1-2 minutes. The teacher criticized them and they Instead, they naturally say: \”I went to the bathroom.\” This is a very small thing, but it shows that children have no sense of time and make excuses and reasons for not being punctual. They do not know how to cherish their time. Also disrespectful of other people\’s time. Cultivating the habit of punctuality is to cultivate children\’s time concept and time management ability: make an appointment with classmates to play and leave the house 10 minutes early; enter the classroom 10 minutes early for class; hand in homework according to the time specified by the teacher… These small details, Let the children learn to master time in a proactive way and face everything with a plan and without panic. Not only that, being punctual can bring children into good condition. For example, if a child enters the classroom 10 minutes early for class, he can organize his textbooks and get into class faster during this time. Enjoy the calmness brought by being punctual, and your children will subtly develop the good habit of not procrastinating. It is a common misunderstanding to give up urging children repeatedly. Repeated and anxious voices make children gradually become accustomed to evading and procrastinate even more. To give a simple example, before their children go to school, parents always urge their children to put on clothes and carry school bags. They are also worried that their children have not brought enough things, so they confirm again and again. What are the consequences of this? First, the children feel the tension and anxiety of their parents, and at the same time see their own incompetence; second, it arouses the child\’s passive resistance: \”The more you push me, the slower I am\”; third, the child loses his or her sense of responsibility, and if adults do not remind them, You won\’t take the initiative to remember what you should do. If you want a child to do something consciously, the most important thing is to help the child regain a sense of accomplishment and self-confidence, while urging will slowly destroy the child\’s initiative. In order to avoid this kind of repeated urging, we need to give our children more time to prepare in advance. For example, when it comes to going out, you can say to your child: \”We are going out in 15 minutes, are you ready?\” Instead of yelling and yelling when you are about to go out, conveying anxiety. Reasonably arrange your rest time. Zuckerberg once gave 26 time management suggestions. The last one is to advise everyone: take a rest. If you ask a child: \”Will you take a rest?\” I believe many children will regard this as the simplest thing. They will play games all day, stay up late watching TV, sleep in, and devote all their time to short videos, cartoons, and games. . Wait until restAt the end of the breath, I didn\’t feel energetic at all, but instead felt confused and listless. This is because children regard rest as indulgence. Although the body is resting at home, the mind is indulged in uncontrolled sensory stimulation, making itself more and more tired. Therefore, if you want to rest well, you must avoid a single way of resting. For example, they lie in bed every day to sleep, play with mobile phones every day, etc. Children should be taught to enrich their forms of entertainment, such as going out for a walk, making appointments with classmates to go to bookstores, going to the gym to exercise, etc. Distribute your energy and time to other things, so that \”junk happiness\” won\’t steal all your time, and you can get better rest.