Organized for the New School Year
If you have school-aged children, you are probably starting to plan for the coming school year. Maybe you were not happy with the organization of scheduling, homework, equipment, papers, work-spaces, or anything else that, when running smoothly, makes life less hectic. What if you are now working more to try and make ends meet in this difficult economy?
This is the time to plan for creating a more organized environment at home, so that the new school year may be successful and enlightening for your children, and positive for the whole family. If you can create a plan, and have the family’s cooperation, then your entire life can benefit, and you can concentrate on things other than trying to keep life organized.
What you should try to examine first is the greatest stressors from the previous school year. Then, look deeper to determine the reason for the stressors. That is what needs to get fixed.
Let’s say your child did not do his/her studying or homework without constant prodding, and even then, you know things did not get done to their full potential. That is the stressor. But the causes could be numerous. Of course, there are the serious reasons that could be causing difficulties, including learning difficulties that should be addressed through professionals. But, there are things that could be causing disorganization that are easy to fix, and could even help in improving learning difficulties.
Questions to ask yourself:
1) Does my child have a formal place to study, that is set up away from all kinds of distractions, but that can have parental/guardian supervision? This supervision can be simply seeing that the child is studying, or being able to notice when he is getting sidetracked. It also can be as simple as the child’s knowing an adult is aware of what he is doing, to keep himself on track.
2) Is my child surrounded by electronic distractions? Maybe you need to come up with a way to formally disengage the student from the cell-phone, i-pod, computer, and whatever else they can think to play with, during the specific time that studying should be happening.
3) Maybe creating a specific schedule of study and break needs to be delineated.
4) What kind of input is my child offering to help himself stay on-track, and be the best learner he can be? Maybe his studying style is different from yours, but also maybe he is deceiving himself. There is no one right answer necessarily, but definitely if you know something was not working well last year, a new plan needs to be explored and tried.
This is the time to plan for creating a more organized environment at home, so that the new school year may be successful and enlightening for your children, and positive for the whole family. If you can create a plan, and have the family’s cooperation, then your entire life can benefit, and you can concentrate on things other than trying to keep life organized.
What you should try to examine first is the greatest stressors from the previous school year. Then, look deeper to determine the reason for the stressors. That is what needs to get fixed.
Let’s say your child did not do his/her studying or homework without constant prodding, and even then, you know things did not get done to their full potential. That is the stressor. But the causes could be numerous. Of course, there are the serious reasons that could be causing difficulties, including learning difficulties that should be addressed through professionals. But, there are things that could be causing disorganization that are easy to fix, and could even help in improving learning difficulties.
Questions to ask yourself:
1) Does my child have a formal place to study, that is set up away from all kinds of distractions, but that can have parental/guardian supervision? This supervision can be simply seeing that the child is studying, or being able to notice when he is getting sidetracked. It also can be as simple as the child’s knowing an adult is aware of what he is doing, to keep himself on track.
2) Is my child surrounded by electronic distractions? Maybe you need to come up with a way to formally disengage the student from the cell-phone, i-pod, computer, and whatever else they can think to play with, during the specific time that studying should be happening.
3) Maybe creating a specific schedule of study and break needs to be delineated.
4) What kind of input is my child offering to help himself stay on-track, and be the best learner he can be? Maybe his studying style is different from yours, but also maybe he is deceiving himself. There is no one right answer necessarily, but definitely if you know something was not working well last year, a new plan needs to be explored and tried.
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