January is National Get Organized Month which is the topic for our tips for parents. Parents, either your children are in the first grade or in their senior year of high school, organizational skills are significant for a thriving college work and in every area of life. You will tremendously help your children if you can help them to understand the importance of organization. First, you must conclude if your children are disorganized. Below are any characteristics of disorganized individuals:
1) Do your children oftentimes forget homework assignments?
2) Do your children ask you to drive them back to school to get papers out of their desks or lockers?
3) Do your children have messy backpacks?
4) Do your children just stuff their papers into folders?
If one or more of the above qualities delineate your children, it is time for you to encourage them to be organized in all areas of their lives. There are some ways that you can help your children to establish organizational skills:
1) Be the example to your children. Let your children see you keeping your home office, car, or clothes organized. Remember that children don't consequent what you say, but what you do!
2) Promote intentional organizing. Help your children to purposefully be organized at home who will hopefully translate these skills to the school setting. For example, have your children to pick safe bet locations in the home to put their backpacks or shoes (near the front door), for example. Encourage your children to prescribe colored folders to correlate with courses (blue = public science).
3) Help your children establish a schedule. Purchase a calendar and planner for your children to keep track of leading due dates and assignments.
4) Be outpatient but show tough love. Your children will not come to be completely organized overnight, so continue to encourage them. However, there will be times when you must show your children that there are consequences of lack of organization. For example, put a limit on taking your children back to school to get papers or writing notes on profit of your children explaining missed assignments to their teachers. Once you have established and communicated the limits with your children, stick to your plan. Refuse to take your children to retrieve papers or write notes (excuses) for missed assignments. Your children may be angry, but they will thank you later.
In conclusion, organizational skills are significant for every area of life. Parents, help your children to achieve success today by helping them get organized!
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