So much to do, and such little time!
Isn’t this a predicament that we all face? Time often becomes an untameable life companion. Rather than flow with time, we are constantly running against it. However, learning some clever and smart techniques and an early initiation into recognising how best to organise the finite time that you have can help your child learn to be more productive and who knows, by extension, you!
Children of the 21st century have much to accomplish. From doodling, to mastering alphabets and numbers, learning dance and music, focusing on play, and of course studying – there are a multitude of things that they have to focus on. Add to this the pull of hand-held devices with its attractive world of music, videos and games – and you’ll suddenly realise that the child is not sleeping on time, eating on time and rather than mindfully live through experiences, is hurrying through them all.
Time, as experienced by your child, hence, needs careful handling. Here are some basic and easy to follow tips and tricks to gift your child a happy and fulfilling 24-hour clock.
- TALK ABOUT TIME
While it sounds vague, it isn’t so. Talk to your children about what they did today. Talk to them about what they would like to do tomorrow. Go over how long they slept, how long they played, how long they ate. Gently, help them get familiar with the very abstract concept that time is. When broken down into finite periods experienced by your children, time becomes more comprehensible. Let your children develop their own vocabulary of time.
When children grow up, talk to them about more complex aspects of time. Stretch it to seasons, to phases of maturing, to ambition and all the time they