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                                   How to help your child learn to manage their time

Listed are some of the ways we personally help our children manage their time.

1. By allowing them to choose which subject to cover first and in what order.

2. If they do not get what is required of them for our school day because they chose the order in which the subjects are to be covered, then failure is best learned at home where it can be addressed.

We don't feel failure is necessarily a time of punishment but of education and experiment. You as the mom know if the child's attitude was a lax one were discipline may be needed or if it truly was a failed attempt to manage his time.

As moms, we are constantly trying to find schedules and routines to suit us until we find something that is "doable". The child should be allowed to do this while at home where he is learning independence and time management.

3. Setting timers if the child is not stressed by them but sees them as a "tool" to balance time spent on subjects and not a "race against time". This has always been stressed by me and they see me using it to cook with in our kitchen and knows it signals anything that I am cooking "done". So any child, young or old can understand that :o) Again, it's all how you explain it to them.

4. Adding visuals to our school area to help them see where they are at during the day in particular subjects. (For example, each of my son's have a stack of drawers that contain one subject in each drawer. They know to start at the top and work their way down. This lets them see how many subjects or drawers they still need to cover that day.)

5. Check off lists either made by me or looking at my Curriculum Planner is how I trained my oldest.

A few of the boy's pages are named compliment of my boys.

Choose 1 of the 4 Planner Pages - 4 Fonts different fonts offered.{Or mix and match fonts}. This is the main part of the student planner. The pages have been updated to be EDITABLE now. Also EACH font choice has two choices. You can choose one page that has subjects typed in for you OR choose the form that you type in the subject.

One planner page has a circle shape cute into fourths or pies. Each pie represents 15 minute increments. This was a request per Julie who lives in New York, a state that has more stringent record keeping laws.

How to use the 15 minute increments or pie shapes

One pie shape shaded in = 15 minutes of work on an assigned subject or activity. Two pie shapes shaded in = 30 minutes of work, three pie shapes shaded in = 45 minutes of work and all four pie shapes shaded in = 60 minutes.

There is even a space on the page to plan AFTER school hours activity which you can be tracked to time spent for school hours AND even a space to use for weekend tracking.

This new form comes only EDITABLE where you type in subjects.

*Note this is the MAIN part of your planner and when you print you will want to print front and back and print off enough for the year. Too, you may want to print off weekly instead of coil binding. Decide what is best for your teen. For me? It takes more time to print it all off at one time, but I have it for the whole year.

On this PAGE I have High School Planning Pages, Reading lists and logs, Notes or Journal Pages and yes eventrack their own attendance.

My planner is flexible because all of those forms are available here for you to download and put the responsibility on them, as they can, to track their own work.

On this PAGE I have a Grade Keeper, Class Schedule, Multiplication Chart and a Field Trip Tracking Guide.

Any of the pages you put in your planner can certainly go in your student's planner.

The pages created below were designed to make the planner something that your student can call his own. Planning, I have always said, is part journaling. Allow your student room to create if he wants to. Print off as many or mix match the colors along with the black and white one to spread throughout the planner or make one section for just Random Thoughts. They have many color choices.

About the Driving Record - Whether you choose a state approved program and teach your teen yourself or you have them attend a driving course, this form will help you track the options.

Black and white Random Thoughts AND a Teen Driving Record Tracking.

Click here to edit text. Like the curriculum planner, the student planner can be personalized by adding pictures or any other form you student wants.

Also, he can choose a back cover made below, choose a back cover from the curriculum planner section and/or choose any of the other pages found on Step 5 for the Curriculum Planner  {More Forms page 1} and {More Forms page 2}

If you need to read how to bind it, go the Main Curriculum page, Step 7 to find out how to bind it efficiently. Enjoy!