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Teaching Children Time Management

Time management is an invaluable skill that is crucial to every person who wishes to do well in all fields of life. Good time management skills allow people to create a balance between all their commitments and fulfill all their responsibilities with utmost sincerity. It also allows a person to attend to all their professional commitments and still be able to take out time for their rest and personal interests. For every person who wishes to manage all their work without feeling overwhelmed, time management is an important skill. Its necessity should not be undermined as every person who is successful in life is always good at managing time.

While growing up, it appears as if the time we have is endless. Due to the lack of responsibilities, as children, we start believing that we will always have time for whatever we want to do. However, while growing up, this perception changes. As our commitments and duties start increasing, we realize that time is not an endless resource. This compels us to be more careful about where we’re spending our time. While some people have to work hard to learn time management and make many changes in their life to manage time effectively, people who are cautious about their time from a young age have an easier time handling responsibilities and workload when it arrives their away.

Teaching children time management can be achieved easily in a planned and organized manner. Making a calendar with children and helping them ascribe work to different days is helpful in distributing work and ensuring that it gets done. Encouraging children to create a time chart for each day also helps them to learn how much time they want to invest in all the things they have to do. As adults, we can pin this timetable on the walls of our children's rooms to make sure that they don't forget about it and don't spend excessive time on their gadgets or pleasure activities. Making such a time chart will help our children to remember their responsibilities and be cautious about where their time is getting spent.

It is also necessary that we teach our children the importance of taking time out to relax and find rest. This is crucial to ensure that our children don't get burnt out and remain aware of their body's needs for

relaxation.

Another helpful tool in assisting children to manage their time is creating a checklist. By training our children to create a checklist every morning, we can teach them how to remember all their responsibilities

and place a tick next to them once they complete a task.

It is necessary that we protect our children from conceding to the bad habit of procrastination and endlessly delaying the work that can be finished in minutes. As adults, if we ourselves finish our tasks without much delay, we can create an example for our children and ensure that they don't become learn the wrong things from observing us and become lethargic.

Time management is one of the skills that prove useful in every sphere of life. The need of the hour is to encourage our children to learn the value of time and not take it for granted. By training them to manage their time and spread their responsibilities evenly throughout their day, week or month we can ensure that they learn how to take care of and fulfill their duties on time.

About the author

Zainab Wahab is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Jamia Millia Islamia. She is an avid reader and an aspiring poet. Any views expressed are personal.

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