Good morning everyone. Trying to suppress your feeling of anger when you asked your kids to do things you asked and they will just reply…”I’ll do it later”. This often happened to a kids which are not trained to do things immediately when asked and just don’t mind it for they don’t know really what will be the consequence of following that right away.
I read an article which is written by Mary Mohler about kids. And I can relate that to the story of my friend. Let me tell you that.
Kids will give you every excuses in the book (“I forgot,” “I didn’t have time”) for not doing their homework or cleaning their room. They’ll also whine for two hours about a task that would take them exactly five minutes. they’ll say, “I worked all night,” and they’ll believe it, but what they mean is they sharpened that pencil, they doodled, they stared out the window, but they never actually got started. To the rescue, self-congressed recovering procrastinator Rita Emmett (“I could make a one-hour task last 14 months”), author of The Procrastinating Child (Walker & Co.). “Procrastination isn’t a character flaw or a personality type,” she insists. “It’s just a habit.
You made it and you can break it.” Here, her five-step plan:
First, select one task to concentrate on. If it’s cleaning their rooms, ask them to focus on the clothing—either hang it up or put it in the laundry. Then time the task. Give them 30 minutes to complete it, and set the timer. During that time they are to ignore everything else (no quick e-mail checks) and take no breaks. When the timer rings, give them a reward. They’ll test you for a few weeks, so be strict at first. Once they get the simple skills down, they’ll be able to leave the procrastination habit behind.
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