Get Your Child Organized for Stress Free School Days
ByWe can make it simple or we can make it hard. Getting your child prepared and organized for a school day requires some work (sometimes a LOT of work) on the front end. In the long run that effort to plan and prepare will pay huge dividends with less stress in the short run and will lead to lifelong success habits for your child.
Is there really a difference in the activity patterns that lead up to these two situations?
Situation 1: Your middle school or high school student has waited until the last minute to start that book report or paper.
Situation 2: Your 25 year old son or daughter was late to a presentation for a new client at work. S/he also forgot some key notes from research done last night that the boss needs to use in presenting the proposal to this new client in this meeting.
There is always a price to pay for doing work sloppily or in a half way manner. What habits is your child forming as s/he goes through each school day. Getting organized and doing things at the right time creates confidence and certainty in the child that s/he is CAPABLE of getting things done on time. That is a huge benefit for both now and later. It will reduce the stress of the school days and lay the foundation for a lifetime of successful actions.
It takes at least 10 times as many repetitions to replace a bad habit with a new one! Why not get right the first time? That time is now. What are you and your child doing today to form those successful patterns of activities which will become lifelong habits?
“Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.” – Paul J. Fleyer
