Time management should be a headache for all parents. How to improve children's time management ability? Let me introduce it to you, I hope it will help you!
Time management tool 1: parent-child schedule
Many families have made timetables, and many parents will also express their timetables in the mirror, which is basically useless. Why doesn't it work? The last management puzzle article has answered this question. It's simple, because children don't have the motivation to do it, and they don't have enough internal motivation to perform it. The events listed in the timetable are likely to be things that children don't like.
Here, some parents will also say that we have rewards, and we will be rewarded for everything we do, but he doesn't care. This is another question, which goes deeper. Talk about it in detail when you have time. Parents who can ask this question must have been entangled with their children for a long time, and the result is half the effort. In fact, the important reason for parents' failure is that they don't know our children well enough.
Our children are both clever and simple. Where is wisdom? He will soon find out what our purpose is, and he will think of many ways to deal with us in order to get his own entertainment time. A mother in the mirror described it as fighting with her children every day, which probably means this. Where is simplicity? They are also easy to coax, or easy to satisfy.
As long as it is very interesting, as long as it makes them feel a sense of accomplishment, they will finish it automatically and consciously without our urging.
So what's the difference between the parent-child schedule and the ordinary schedule here? Parent-child timetable refers to the timetable of parents while making children's timetable. The picture below shows the regular baby schedule. If you want to make a parent-child plan, make a separate line. The mother's schedule should be synchronized with the child. For example, from 5: 30 pm to 6: 20 pm, the baby's task is to do homework. Then, what is his mother doing at the same time? Write it in his mother's schedule, cooking or cleaning, etc.
The most perfect state is that the whole family can make a big timetable, listing the children's, mothers' and fathers' clearly and clearly. Of course it depends on the situation of each family. Mirrors are more advocated. At least one parent can synchronize with the child, so that the parent-child schedule can have homework.
Why do parent-child schedules greatly improve the efficiency of time?
First, the parent-child timetable gives children a sense of equality. This is not a person changing, this is not a person growing up, but a family. Some people do things together better than themselves. Think about it, when you want to sign up for the gym, do you think that if you have a partner, your chances of going will increase several times?
Second, the parent-child timetable gives children the glorious mission of supervising their parents. I don't know if mom and dad have found out that children like to catch mom and dad's mistakes, which will make them feel a sense of accomplishment. When the child is constantly monitoring whether his parents abide by the timetable, in fact, this timetable has penetrated into his heart.
Time Management Tool 2: pomodoro technique
Pomodoro technique is a simple and easy time management method, and a more microscopic time management method, which is equivalent to GTD founded by Francisco Cirillo.
Magic Mirror also highly recommends that children use pomodoro technique when doing homework, because the time of a tomato clock is 25 minutes, which is completely in line with children's concentration time. Some parents hope that their children can concentrate for an hour or two and finish all their homework in one breath, which is actually unrealistic.
Pomodoro technique's specific method:
1. Plan the tasks or homework to be completed today, specify the order of completing the tasks or homework, and write the tasks in the taskbar.
2. Set your tomato clock.
3. Start to finish the first task until the tomato bell rings (25 minutes).
4. Stop the task and draw "√" after the task in the taskbar.
5. Take a 5-minute break, drink water, overlook and be convenient. During a short break, it is not advisable to engage in any activities that rack your brains. Nor are you allowed to continue to "do a few more minutes", even if you think you can finish the task at hand in a few more minutes.
6. Start the next tomato clock and continue the task. Go on until you finish the task, and then cross it off the list.
7. After tomatoes every four minutes, rest for 25 minutes.
8. When children complete their tasks according to the tomato plan, they can set different reward mechanisms to choose from, such as parent-child reading for 30 minutes, playing chess for 30 minutes, and parent-child playing for 30 minutes.
Time Management Tool 3: Family Practices
The family meeting was initiated by Qi Dahui, a professor in Peking University. On March 20 15, Chaoyang District, Beijing established the "Harmonious Family Guidance Station" to promote the family convention project to the community. Family convention refers to dealing with family affairs in the form of contract and ensuring that it is completed in an equal, happy and interesting family atmosphere.
The mirror appreciates family customs, because family customs are not only for children, but for the whole family. It not only restricts the behavior of children, but also restricts the behavior of parents. For example, during this period, we want to adjust our children's time management ability, so children can also make requests and adjust some behaviors of their parents. Similarly, those who do it are rewarded, and those who don't do it are punished accordingly.
Before implementing the family convention, hold a family meeting first. At the family meeting, clarify their respective tasks and reward and punishment systems. Rewards and punishments can be put forward by themselves until everyone agrees. Children's rewards can be increased entertainment time, punishment can be confiscation of mobile phones, and so on; The mother's reward can be not doing housework for a day, and the punishment can be increasing the child's free time, etc. Dad's reward can be to increase his free time, and his punishment can be to wash dishes more often or sleep with his son more.
Everyone is equal, and everyone is both a participant and a supervisor. This not only helps to adjust the behavior of children and parents, but also enhances the affection between family members. This is not only suitable for time management, but also widely used in study, work, life, communication, tourism, environmental protection and other aspects.
Finally, these three tools are all time management tools, which are used to adjust study habits or living habits, and it is difficult to solve the problem of children's motivation for this matter. When we have tried many methods of time management and failed, we need to reflect on the real reasons.
For example, children are extremely procrastinating in their homework, and it is useless to use any time management method. Then we need to know whether this child is really a problem of time management or a problem of insufficient learning motivation. If it is a question of learning motivation, then another way is needed.
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