Talking Too Much

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  • April 14, 2015 at 2:27 pm
    shannon
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    My two boys talk way too much from the start of the day and throughout.

    I feel bad at times when I tell them to stop and focus, because they are merely socializing with each other and engaging in conversations that are important to them. However, it takes up too much time. I find myself repeating “focus…no talking.” Like I said, I do not want to take from them their conversation, yet I hope for them to learn to stay on task and get them done productively.

    I could be seeing this wrong, and that is my purpose for reaching out on here. Maybe I need to take it easy and let the day just flow as is. Or maybe, I need to tighten the reigns. Either way, I am not sure.

     

    Shannon

    April 14, 2015 at 2:37 pm
    shannon
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    To clarify are not often talking up a storm during lessons. They will if doing lessons at the same time, get distracted. For example, if they are both doing writing lessons, they will start a conversation and I then tell them to focus.

    The majority of the talking is between lessons which prolongs going from one lesson to the next.

     

    Shannon

    April 14, 2015 at 10:14 pm
    Wings2fly
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    Do you have Laying Down the Rails for Children?  There is a section on Attentiveness.  One of the points is to control your flitting thoughts, and also to focus on the lessons and not dawdle.  Anyway, it sounds like they could use some lessons on the habit of attention.

    April 15, 2015 at 7:54 am
    HollyS
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    Mine talk too much while I’m trying to read!  I don’t want to discourage their comments and questions, but if I don’t we would never make it through the reading!  I try to have them wait until either the end of the reading or a stopping point, but it’s been difficult!  I’m convinced we could get school finished twice as fast without the constant commenting.

    Attentiveness is the first habit I had picked out for next year…glad to hear we’re on the right track with that!

    I actually don’t mind talking between subjects…in public school, they’d have a few minutes between each class.  I think it gives their minds a change to refocus.  Unless they are getting too wound up from it, because that happens sometimes here!    I’ve been having them do a few exercises when that happens like jumping jacks, running in place, push-ups, etc.  It’s been pretty successful at getting them ready to work again.

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