Let children understand the preciousness of time

Let children understand that time is precious, never stops, and should be seized in time; tell children that time is sacred and should not waste time intentionally. 24 hours a day is neither more nor less for everyone. If you delay one thing for a few minutes, you will definitely lose a few minutes on other things. For example, when a child wants to stay in bed, take out the alarm clock and ask him to confirm: "Baby, how many minutes are you late?" "3 minutes." "So, you have to run on the way to school to catch up these 3 minutes. "Similarly, if today's homework is completed in advance, you can let your child look at the half hour he saved, let him do what he likes, and appreciate the value of this half hour.

Respect children's inner rhythm

The prerequisite for cultivating children's sense of time is to respect children's "inner time". As Montessori said, young children are actually "people with an inner and precise timetable." Starting from about 3 years old, children's concept of time gradually forms, and time-related words are used more and more often in speech. Children's time perception at this stage is mainly based on the connection with events, with the help of specific things in life or surrounding phenomena as indicators. For younger children, you can use "Let's go to kindergarten at dawn" or "Let's go out to play after a good nap" to gradually introduce the education of understanding the clock, year, month and day.

Have regular family life schedules

Help your children develop regular living habits from an early age, and set a scientific and reasonable work and rest schedule for them, and then the whole family will try to abide by it. In this way, he can know that he should get up after his parents get up every day; after dinner in the evening, his father will read with him and his mother will do some housework. Children's concept of time will naturally form. On the contrary, if the parents themselves have no rules in their lives, the children will be at a loss as to how to understand and keep time.

Let children be the masters of time

We often overlook one point: although children have not yet formed a mature and social concept of time, they have their own unique meaning of time. understanding, for example, they find playing games more interesting than completing homework. Therefore, we need to make them realize that time management is not for the requirements of parents and teachers, nor for perfunctory work or game time, but to make themselves happier and devote themselves to what they want to do. Therefore, parents can encourage their children to make time plans, listing what they want to do every day, how much time each thing will take, etc. Because the plan is made and decided by themselves, children are often able to proactively implement it.