Time management skills for teenagers

In elementary school, a huge burden falls on children. One of the common problems in children is the problem associated with the inability to plan and manage their time. Often parents are faced with the fact that the child does not start homework without a reminder, postpones the lessons for an indefinite period of time, preferring to spend time watching TV.

Many children do not know at all what they can do in their free time. The lack of a daily routine and planning entails a number of difficulties that accompany a child when doing housework or chores.

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Time management is an important and necessary skill for both schooling and adulthood. Time management allows you to effectively manage not only your own activities, but also life in general.

The younger the child, the easier it is to teach him self-organization skills and help him become independent. Thus, in order to teach the child the skills and abilities of planning and effective time management, it is necessary to go along this path with him.

It should be remembered that it is not really in our power to control time. Time is a very unique resource. Time cannot be returned and cannot be stopped, but it can be effectively organized.

The most important, first, necessary task is to motivate the child. Show him the importance and necessity of organizing time.

At this stage, excellent helpers will be:

• timing . Invite your child to write down everything that will happen to him from the moment he wakes up to the moment he sleeps at night. In order to see whether or not a child is effectively managing his own time, you need one or two weekdays and one day off.

• game analysis of the situation. Offer your child small cases - play situations describing the day of a fictional boy or girl (depending on the gender of your child). Discuss how your child thinks, whether the hero of your story is timing right or wrong. Where could he devote more time to education, and where to spend less time at the computer? Specify what your child would advise the hero of the story to do in his spare time. Such play situations serve as a kind of projective methods for parents to analyze the situation that happens to their own child. Listen carefully to the answers and think together what the ideal school day might be.

Invite your child to make a list that will take into account:

• all important matters (educational, sections, circles, etc.),

• help around the house (what the child wants and can help both independently and through joint activities with the parent).

• free time (what exactly you want to do: draw, assemble a constructor, assemble an aircraft model, paint with sand, and so on).

Once the list has been drawn up, you should determine the order in which the tasks will be performed and set aside a certain amount of time for each task on the list.

For greater clarity, cases from each group (important, home help, free time) can be highlighted in a separate color.

It should be remembered that the daily routine is an effective assistant in your activities for teaching time management skills with your child. You will find what it is and how to set up a schoolchild's day regimen in the first lesson of the "Healthy lifestyle" course.

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In order to track the effectiveness of the day lived, it is necessary to agree with the child that the performance or non-performance of a task should be noted. It can be: "plus - minus" system; mark with the color "red" - not fulfilled, "green" - done; you can use stickers or invite your child to come up with their own system, which will allow him to take initiative and help stimulate mental activity.

This kind of control is necessary so that the child clearly sees the result of the work done and learns self-control skills.

The visual ratio of completed and unfulfilled tasks solves another important task: it encourages the child to complete the task, generates the desire to "see a bright, beautiful result", and as a result increases the student's self-esteem.

Harmonious development for you and your children!