The "good medicine" of "Kidian" syndrome is "time management". How important is it for children to have the ability to manage time? "Children who know how to manage time can not only improve their learning efficiency and grades, but also better manage their lives." 01 To understa

The "good medicine" of "Kidian" syndrome is "time management". How important is it for children to have the ability to manage time? "Children who know how to manage time can not only improve their learning efficiency and grades, but also better manage their lives."
01 Understanding and perceiving time

We must start from an early age when cultivating children's concept of time.

If the child is only 2 or 3 years old, he can teach his child to understand time through daily conversations. The easiest thing is to start from broad times such as "morning, noon, afternoon, and evening" to form a rough understanding of time and time sequence. At the same time, you can also use some tools to let your children perceive time.

Children aged 5 or 6 can give their children an alarm clock to learn to understand the clock. Children’s feelings about time are built bit by bit. Seizing opportunities in life can help children establish the concept of time faster.

02 Determine the priority of matters

Order the matter according to priorities, classify the urgent and important tasks as red tasks, classify the important but not urgent tasks as yellow tasks, and classify the unimportant and unimportant tasks as green tasks.

For example, the one-day task list in kindergarten is as follows:

For children who are connected to primary school, parents can help them formulate similar task lists based on their children's acceptance level, first overcome the most difficult ones, and then do the simple ones gradually. After he goes to elementary school, he must insist on formulating and implementing it. In this way, if he classifies it for a long time, the child will naturally understand where his daily study life should start.

03 Time what you do

After we understand the time and arrange the order of time, we must focus on improving efficiency. For preschool children and lower grade elementary school students, silent hourglass timing is also recommended here. The method of hourglass timing cultivates children's awareness of rules. For children who are about to go to elementary school and lower grades, they can also cooperate with the "Tomato Work Method".

The original "Tomato Work Method" time period was 25 minutes. If it is preschool children and lower grade primary school students, the time to maintain high concentration is about 20 minutes. Therefore, it is recommended to set 20 minutes first for preschool children and lower grade primary school students. The learning time is divided into several 20-minute periods, and the child is allowed to rest for 5 minutes every 20 minutes. This cycle is used to keep the child's brain running efficiently, thereby improving learning efficiency.

04 Make a time plan to avoid being too detailed

Some children will make plans during holidays: hours or even minutes are used as intervals, and what to do is clearly written. But such too detailed plans are often difficult to stick to. Plans can never keep up with changes. Children are likely to give up in such changes, and they are likely to feel frustrated if they can't finish the things on the table.

So the initial plan of children should be flexible and should not be too rigid. Some tasks can be divided into weekly and day-to-day units, and the daily plans can be divided into the whole period of time in the morning, noon, afternoon, evening and evening. With flexible time, it will be more convenient to adjust. If the child is a little older, no matter what time management method it is, he should leave the child with disposable free time, which can also let the child learn to "earn" free time by himself.

05 Start with the simplest punctual habit to cultivate

Cultivating punctual habits is to cultivate children's time concepts and time management skills: make an appointment with classmates to play, go out 10 minutes in advance; enter the classroom 10 minutes in advance; hand over homework according to the time specified by the teacher, etc. These small details of

allow children to learn to master time in an active way and face everything in a planned and unhappy manner. Not only that, punctuality can bring children a good condition.

For example, if a child enters the classroom 10 minutes in advance for class, during this time, he can organize his textbooks and enter the class state faster. Only by letting children enjoy the calmness brought by punctuality from an early age can children subtly develop good habits of not procrastination.

06 Give up repeatedly urging

Repeated urging children is a common misunderstanding. The repeated and anxious voices make children gradually get used to evading and procrastinating. If you want your child to do one thing consciously, the most important thing is to help him regain his sense of accomplishment and self-confidence, and urging him slowly destroys his initiative. In order to avoid this repeated urging, we need to give our children more time to prepare in advance. For example, when going out, you can say to your child, "You will go out in 15 minutes. Are you ready?" Instead of starting to yell and conveying anxiety when you are about to go out.

Finally, during the learning process of children, please allow children to make mistakes and let them experience the consequences of not making good use of time and wasting time on themselves. For example, when a meal time is agreed, take away the plate in time after the meal is over. The feeling of hunger will make the child understand the importance of observing time. Sometimes, the natural consequences are much more effective than our bitter teaching.

cultivates children's concept of time to let children learn to control their lives. This process may be full of obstacles, but it is more effective than urging and nagging, encouragement and appropriate letting go.

Parents are the best role models for their children. If you want to cultivate their children's time management skills, start by saying "bye" to themselves and the "Kidian" syndrome! There will be a next moment when you miss it, but the time you miss it will not be compensated.