The concept of time management needs to be cultivated from an early age, and only when good habits are formed in childhood can we take fewer detours in the future growth principle.
The importance of time management for children is self-evident, from solving the problem of procrastination in writing homework to arranging work and life in the future.
Therefore, letting children learn time management is the best life experience that every parent gives to their children, and it will be used for a lifetime.
Time perception exercise before the age of 3
Children before the age of 3 are completely indifferent to the abstract concept of time, but it does not mean that parents cannot guide their children in time management. At least two things are worth letting children feel.
The first is to feel the day and night.
During the day, the sun father-in-law gets up, the children also have to get up, at night when it is dark, they have to turn on the lights, and they have to go to bed very late.
The second is to feel the seasonal changes.
Take your child out in the spring to feel the warm spring breeze, tell the child that the spring flowers and the small trees sprout; the summer is hot, there are frogs in the pond; the autumn is cool, the leaves are golden; the winter is cold, and the ice and snow are mixed.
2. Kindergarten stage from 3 to 6 years old
Children at this stage can feel more about the concept of time, read through picture books, and have a good time perception experience through daily details.
1. First of all, kindergarten going to school and school perception.
What time to go to kindergarten in the morning, what time to go home from kindergarten in the afternoon, what time to go to bed at night, and what time to get up the next morning, these relatively fixed times are constantly experienced and mastered by children.
2. Perceive yesterday, today and tomorrow.
For example, by listening to the weather forecast, let the child know today's weather and understand tomorrow's weather, and even deliberately ask the child how the weather was yesterday.
3. The scale of perceiving time.
For example, you can compete with your child to guess the current time of the game, who is closer to who wins; for example, playing 30 seconds of silence is a game, who is closer to who wins.
4, read more picture books about time management with children, and through the story of picture books, let children have a shallow awareness of time management.
For example, the story of Thomas The Train has an album about time management.
A variety of parent-child games allow children to know the calendar and the four seasons, and understand the basic knowledge of time such as "yesterday, tomorrow" and "punctuality, early, late".
At the same time, you can also learn seven good ways to manage time: "do what you can be efficient", "Solve in time is faster", "Change will not take time", "It is great to complete on time", "It is more useful to help at the right time", "Learn skills step by step" and "Prioritize and prioritize".
3. 7 to 9 years old in the lower grades of primary school
The primary school stage begins formal learning, and the school time is arranged by the classroom and recess, so the time schedule for the child to return from school is worth exercising and cultivating.
During this time, the child needs to come back and make a list of what to do at night; then what time to do, and how long to do.
Then what parents have to do is to first assist in starting to make lists and time planning, and then accompany them without disturbing (such as reading a book next to them), and encounter centralized time that will not be solved.
The child's checklist completion situation should not be expected to be 100% at the beginning, but must be encouraged at this age, and make a little progress every day.
In addition, in the usual life process, it is also necessary to continuously strengthen the time planning management of children.
For example, if you want to go out to play on the weekend, you can let the child arrange the time to go out, what you plan to play, how long to play, these initiatives are given to the child.