How To Help Your Older Child Schedule Their Time

How can I help my older child schedule his or her time?

Another really key thing that children learn between age, is the concept of schedules and calendars. Up until a certain age, your mom, or your parents, dictate your schedule. This is when you go to school. These are your play dates. This is when you have other activity. As kids get older, they start wanting to schedule things on their own, and they inform you that, "Oh, I'm going to Johnny's house today". It's a great time for you to teach kids how to manage their time and also how to keep their own calendar and their own schedule, and maybe also bring in that element of it also being about communicating your schedule to other people in the house. Give them their own calendar and teach them how to keep track of their appointments and their schedules, and knowing that these are commitments that you are making. They're not just things you write down or things that you forget to write down, whatever the case may be. It's just a great time to teach that concept of scheduling and keeping a calendar.