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How can I teach my kids to follow the daily schedule?
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It’s been our 5th week, but my dd5 and ds7 still not yet following our daily schedule. =(
I confessed that I did change the activity/subject from time to time due to many reasons. I post the schedules on the wall in living room, dinning room and their bedroom, they still don’t know what to do and I have to tell them every single minute to do this or that…. I am getting frustrated and don’t know what is the best way to help them.
Any suggestion?
Hi Carmen!
I’m not sure exactly what your daily schedule entails, but I have a dd7 and ds5 (opposite of you!). I would not expect them to follow a schedule for the day. My 7 year old can tell time and knows when school begins, when storytime is, and when her favorite tv show comes on, but I don’t give her a schedule for when to do math, when to read, etc. That may be necessary for larger families and useful for older children, but not for us. Do you think you may be expecting more from them than they are capable of doing?
We do have an orderly day, and I think that is because we have a regular rhythm. We do things in a regular order each day. We have formed the habit of “school day.” 🙂
One other thing that comes to mind – sometimes children get in the habit of letting others tell them when to do something and don’t think for themselves. OK, maybe adults do too! We have been reading Understood Betsy, and there are just so many excellent life lessons/thoughts in that book. My children have formed the bad habit of not getting their dirty clothes off the bathroom floor and into the laundry room. I know they can do this because they take their dirty clothes in their rooms to the laundry room. I decided NOT to pick them up behind them. Hence, my son did not have clean shorts for soccer practice tonight. He wore long pants instead. Just offering that information in case your “telling them” is getting in the way of their “knowing” what to do.
Hope tomorrow is better!
Good point Jennifer!
Maybe you could try Sue Patrick’s workboxes. This way they work through the boxes at their own pace but they know what comes next. This makes them more independant. Just an option you can try. Have a blessed day!
For school I take a clipboard and put their copywork and math sheet on it, and we stack each child’s books or resources for the day at their place at the table. Although my children are 8 & 6 and can read their paper checklist, the visual reminder of seeing what needs done is helpful. They put away each thing as they do it and watching the pile diminish helps. I let my kids choose the order but you could stack things in order if you want it done a certain way. We use chore packs for morning routine.
Tara
For my 8 year old DD, I do something similar to Tara. I put everything I want her to do in a folder/in a pile on the table and get her started on each thing, then we both work independently for 20-40 minutes (I work from home). She can come to me if she needs help, but knows now that it may be a while until I can help her and instead of dawling/bothering me/getting distracted she should move on to the next task. We’ve been at this almost a month now and have a pretty good system down. Another idea I read somewhere is to put different tasks on index cards and have the child pick them from a “Deck”. I think the variety of routine is important, so I usually let her pick the order.
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