Calendars may seem obvious to the born organized but they are not obvious to me in parenting the home educated child. I take pride, too much pride, in bumping along through school life, so if you read that last post and thought "well duh", then you are not challenged like I am to teach calendar organization.
It has been a week now and it is slowly coming to them and to me how this calendar tool can be used. I have made VERY reasonable requests on their daily routine so far and asked them to simply check their stuff off when it is complete. Hmmmm.... so far they are not taking me seriously enough. I now have added that if they get everything done for that day, to put a sticker at the top of that day. When they ask to do special things, we can take a look at how things have been going along the way and see what is reasonable. All things fun always seem reasonable to them.
We had a check in last night and it was apparent that it was hard for them to get much done from their list. We have more talking to do and of course I will reinforce those areas which are getting done. Slow and steady will win the race.
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